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HDD USB Dock Plugs Bare SATA Drives Like NES Cartridges
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 3:48 am
by froggyboy604
Compatible with Windows and Macs, this $46.79 SATA HDD Stage Rack will allow you to plug any bare 2.5- or 3.5-inch SATA hard disk drives into your computer like Nintendo cartridges or, for those of you old enough, 8-tracks. Just take the HD, plug it into the base, connect the base to your Mac or PC via USB, and it will appear on your desktop. It may not be as compact as other other options, but nothing will come close to the clickity-clack sound and all that cartridge-like action,
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http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/hard-drive/h ... 312747.php
$50 seem kind of high when you can get a 250GB or higher external USB hard drive for $99 more or less.
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:40 am
by SetoTK
yea but this is a dock system, and is a fairly cool idea
might grab myself one or two
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 1:30 am
by froggyboy604
I suppose . I wonder if it can be modded to run connected to an eSata pci card since USB 2.0 isn't the fastest connection type for external drives.
like this one made by vantec.
http://www.vantecusa.com/p_ugtst300.html
Serial ATA (SATA) is the latest form of computer connectivity, featuring faster transfer speeds, easier configuration, and the ability to hot swap drives. With the Vantec SATA/eSATA PCI Host Controller, you can add the features and functionality of eSATA to your computer. By providing an internal SATA port, the PCI Host Card offers the expanadability to add a hard drive to you system. With the external SATA port, both the PCI Host Card gives the flexibility of adding a high speed connection to an external hard drive. Traditionally, one would use USB 2.0 to connect to external hard drives. While USB 2.0 offers reasonably fast speeds at 480Mbps, SATA transfers at a speed of up to 1,500Mbps! Take advantage of SATA on your computer with the Vantec SATA/eSATA PCI Host Card.