External USB SATA Drive Dock
- Filed under: USB gadgets, USB News
- Date: Dec 7,2008
Make use of your spare SATA hard drives
Storage is cheap – less than a dollar per gigabyte. Music and video are being archived at home by everyone from you to your grandmother. Consequently, hard-drives are being upgraded constantly, and quite a few of them end up getting discarded. Just because they’re small, though, doesn’t make them useless.
Slip your spare hard drives into this USB dock and it mounts as an available volume on your Windows, Mac OS, or Linux computer via either a USB or an eSATA connector. Hot-swap with a new drive by pressing the center button on the base and jamming in a new drive.
Making the dock even more awesome – it can connect equally well with big 3.5″ desktop SATA hard drives and 2.5″ laptop hard-drives.
Features
- Connects to 2.5″ or 3.5″ internal SATA hard drives
- USB or eSATA connectivity
- Plug and Play
- Transfer rates up to 480Mbps with USB 2.0
- Transfer rates up to 3Gb/s with eSATA
Price: $39.99 Buy here: ThinkGeek.com
Leave a comment