[Tfug] OT: External SATA docks

Jim March 1.jim.march at gmail.com
Tue Jan 11 22:43:25 MST 2011


I'm using that same critter.  Works fine.  Note that it only supports SATA
drives, not ATA.

Jim

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Steve B <steveb7 at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's exactly what I was looking for and had hoped SWS carried it. Thanks!
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 5:43 PM, John Gruenenfelder <johng at as.arizona.edu>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 03:58:54PM -0700, Steve B wrote:
>> >Can anyone recommend an eSATA dock with which they have good success? I
>> have
>> >a couple of SATA drives that I want to keep for misc storage and one of
>> >these devices looks like an easy way to access them from time to time.
>> >
>> >Steve
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I bought an EZ-Dock from SWS a little while back and it has worked great
>> so
>> far.  It has both eSATA and USB-2.0 ports.  The best feature is that it
>> really
>> is just a dock.  You plug the drive vertically into the top of the unit.
>>  This
>> makes hot-swapping, if supported, really easy, and you never have to
>> unscrew
>> anything to get the drive in or out or to change drives.
>>
>> It's an EZ-Dock from Kingwin.  I think I paid $30 for it... something like
>> that, anyway.
>>
>>
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