Thermaltake Sata HDD USB Docking Station

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 3.5 x 2.6 inches ; 1.6 pounds


• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)


• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.


• ASIN: B0012Z3MKW


• Item model number: N0028USU
  

By : Thermaltake
Price : $29.99

Item Description

Thermaltake N0028USU HDD Docking Station. The picture is for display only and the hard drive is not included.

 

Thermaltake Sata HDD USB Docking Station

 

Technical Details

• Supports All 2.5" ; 3.5" SATA HDDs up to 2 TB


• Hot-Swap Capability for Rapid Multi HDDs Access ; Exchange


• Supports USB 2.0 Transfer Speed up to 480Mbps


• Compact Docking Station Design maximizes Heat Dissipation ; Exhaust


• Windows ; Mac OS Compatible

Buyer Testimonials

If you happen to be like me and have a plethora of homeless drives laying around, than this is for you. Drives are getting bigger and bigger whilst simultaneously decreasing in cost. This quite often outcomes in keeping the greatest and most effective setups as your main stay backup external storage volumes. What you end up with immediately after all this upgrading, even if its not so frequent (as in the moment a year), is drives without having a use. Now it would be extremely wasteful to purchase a bunch of added external circumstances just to maintain all these unused drives in. So this dock makes all these unused drives quite helpful once more, with no filling your wall up with warts or your USB slots with endless external drives.
This item is not a Thermaltake product as such, it's just rebadged by them. I would have hoped they would have opted to use the a lot more versatile edition which included USB 1.1/two. FireWire 400/800 and eSATA, yet I consider they went this route to preserve the price down, as not to quite a few people have the speed of these other faster interfaces. All in all this item is strong, even though its created from plastic its properly weighted and doesn't walk or shutter as the drive is in use (even with a 10,000 rpm Raptor drive inserted). The vertical placement of the drive appears to carry out nicely in both permitting gravity to "seat" the drive in place as nicely as let for adequate cooling. I would yet not advise you leave a "docked" drive at all times on as it would not be wise with no some sort of external cooling particularly when placed on an electronically cluttered desk.
The dock serves much more as a speedy backup tool and enables for convenient incremental storage of crucial files, which can then be ejected and stored in a small secure for fire/water protection or in a closet, so as to not be physically connected to the machine 100% percent of the time. Its peace of thoughts for your photographs/videos or other household files that insurance can't spend for.
I personal two of these docks and have to say that acquiring this has produced my backup regiment a hole lot extra viable. Plus who definitely desires a desktop cluttered with a bunch of external drives when all you have to do is maintain naked drives in a drawer/safe with labels taped onto them for offline backup.
This dock is so versatile that I was in a position to use it to recover the game saves on an Xbox 360 that failed due to dreaded "ring of red lights" hardware failure. This is fundamental to note, as this dock was made to manage each complete desktop sized 3.five inch drives as properly as the notebook 2.5 inch drives, which the Xbox 360 uses.
The only probable weakness of this dock is static discharge, as you are handling the drive with no any sort of shielding or covering for the exposed electronics its attached board. To alleviate the threat of doable damage to the drive from static, I'll usually grasp an exposed metal section of my machine prior to attempting to handle a drive to discharge any static I might possibly be carrying. It would also be wise to keep away from grasping the drive by its electronics board straight as an alternative holding it by its edges as you would a deck of cards.
In conclusion I would have to say this is a amazing product at a awesome price. And it will give a household to all those drives you thought you had been going to have to destroy or sell on eBay.

The only beef I have with this device is that the patented connector doesn't connect really nicely. I tried it with both 2.5" and three.five" drives and had the identical complications with both. The hole for the drive does not quite fit the drive, so some fiddling is needed to get it in. In addition, producing a positive connection to the cable connectors is tricky and takes significantly more force than I certainly really feel comfy with on little plastic components.
On the positive side, as soon as the drive is in, everything works locate and seems to run as fast as USB2 drives usually run. If you have the requirement to use bare drives with no opening your laptop, this will do the job. It is certainly a great deal more convenient than opening the case and mounting the drive. So if you require to manage many naked drives this could be a valuable tool for you. For the typical user an external drive kit may well be a greater decision.

 

Thermaltake Sata HDD USB Docking Station

 

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