SATA Hard Drive Toaster Dock

jqp · « **on:** 13 Oct 2008, 09:19 pm »

Anyone use one of these or similar?

http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/products_id/569

satfrat · « **Reply #1 on:** 13 Oct 2008, 09:28 pm »

Your link is sending me to a spammer page!

Nevermind,,, it worked on the 3th try.

jqp · « **Reply #2 on:** 13 Oct 2008, 09:44 pm »

Let me get a better link then...CHANGED the link

This product is the Vantec NexStar Hard Drive Dock, however there are several simillar products out there.

I am thinking in term of storing bare hard drives in compartments (such as in an OEM styrofoam hard drive shipping container) and then just plugging them in to something like this. Older drives do not remain in PC cases for long around here as faster, bigger drives take their place. However the older drives are still excellent for storeage, and external drive cases are not worth the effort after the first one or two. Also stored data (photos, videos, music, etc) usually don't leave the house.

zybar · « **Reply #3 on:** 13 Oct 2008, 09:45 pm »

Quote from: jqp on 13 Oct 2008, 09:44 pm

Let me get a better link then...CHANGED the link

http://www.redferret.net/index.php?s=SATA

Scroll half way down.

George

satfrat · « **Reply #4 on:** 13 Oct 2008, 09:47 pm »

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http://www.redferret.net/index.php?s=SATA

Scroll half way down.

George

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Edit: worked again on the 3rd try. aa

andrewbee · « **Reply #5 on:** 13 Oct 2008, 10:39 pm »

I use a Thermaltake version, USB/FW400/esata.
Works great!

jqp · « **Reply #6 on:** 14 Oct 2008, 04:04 am »

Quote from: andrewbee on 13 Oct 2008, 10:39 pm

I use a Thermaltake version, USB/FW400/esata.
Works great!

How many hard drives do you access with it? Any troubles or issues?

I was buying external drives and putting some drives in external hard drive enclosures. But between whole-drive backups and all the new media I keep collecting, it does not make sense. There is a limited number of ports on a PC, and I wouldn't want to leave them all powered on if there were enough. This solution seems to be a great idea, and other than potential reliability issues I can't see a downside.

andrewbee · « **Reply #7 on:** 14 Oct 2008, 02:55 pm »

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How many hard drives do you access with it? Any troubles or issues?

This unit is fairly new, only about 3 weeks of use so far but at least a hundred drives by now ( I manage a repair centre). No issues so far. I was so impressed with the unit, I bought 2 extras for the software guys who kept "borrowing" my unit.
I use several types of devices for HD access and this is the easiest so far I have used.

pm314 · « **Reply #8 on:** 30 Oct 2008, 11:34 am »

I would agree, these things are great. I bought the Thermaltake version on sale at BB several weeks back for home use. I just wanted something to be able to do a quick backup of of all music/pictures etc on several pcs. Works great. I got a full backup of all important info keep the drive at work and then throw a different sata drive in to do some incremental backups and use as a massive thumb drive.