NewEgg.com has the Thermaltake BlacX ST0005U USB & eSATA Docking Station for $40 with free shipping. Slam your hard drive into it to make it into a USB external hard drive. Check out this quick look at how it functions.
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#1
joe392 - Posted 5:10 pm PST 11/20/08 (45 Posts)
perfect for me and my transition from desktop to laptop. all those extra hard drives i have laying around will be able to be useful once again
#2
aaa8888 - Posted 5:23 pm PST 11/20/08 (274 Posts)
I thought they had a $10 rebate for this?
#3
mrmorality - Posted 5:28 pm PST 11/20/08 (389 Posts)
JUST STOP THE FUCKING SLAMMING ALREADY!
#4
mrmorality - Posted 5:29 pm PST 11/20/08 (389 Posts)
STOP!
#5
SelfGovern - Posted 5:36 pm PST 11/20/08 (1539 Posts)
Slammin' may be good on the dance floor, but it's no good for hard drives.
#6
Ghost Rider - Posted 5:50 pm PST 11/20/08 (1304 Posts)
Don't know how it compared to Azio SATA HDD Docking for $23...
#7
vonZipper - Posted 7:14 pm PST 11/20/08 (108 Posts)
HDDs = pretty paperweights after a couple of slams.
#8
phazeless - Posted 7:28 pm PST 11/20/08 (453 Posts)
Been this price for a while..find something good & worth our while Ben, and stop smokin that crappy crack
#9
Oio - Posted 8:06 pm PST 11/20/08 (1266 Posts)
STOP! In the name of love. Before you break my hard.. drive
#10
archaic - Posted 8:11 pm PST 11/20/08 (368 Posts)
Ben is such a stud, so much slamming and dongles...
#11
alby - Posted 10:27 pm PST 11/20/08 (166 Posts)
yah, i don't know how useful this will be.
#12
Triangel - Posted 4:09 am PST 11/21/08 (180 Posts)
i owned this, the esata is very fast, good investment
#13
Dogg - Posted 5:32 am PST 11/21/08 (116 Posts)
Mine has worked very well. The last rebate on this model that I recall was several months ago.
#14
dpm - Posted 5:47 am PST 11/21/08 (15 Posts)
I have this. Paid about $30 with rebate from Circuit City. Works fine as far as I know. I back up my iMac once a month with a 1TB drive in it. Don't run it for more than a 1/2 hour each month though. That's all I use it for.
Just got the Azio SATA HDD Docking for $23. Haven't tried it yet. Hope it's good.
Just got the Azio SATA HDD Docking for $23. Haven't tried it yet. Hope it's good.
#15
Knarly - Posted 6:53 am PST 11/21/08 (360 Posts)
CC rebate? - I hope you get that rebate before they shut the doors in January.
#16
BargainHunter777 - Posted 7:18 am PST 11/21/08 (78 Posts)
Recently, I bought the "Azio SATA HDD Docking Station $23 at Shop4Tech.com".
http://bensbargains.net/deal/84444/
I did not slam by HDD into it, but gently docked into it after connecting the SATA wire to my eSATA port @ the back panel of my computer. Lo! Behold Vista Ultimate recognized my new connection and the HDD was ready for use. One can use USB port as well to access the HDD.
The first thing I did was clone my C drive into the new HD using Acronis 11.
Very satisfied with the performance.
Thermaltake is a better known brand so is Newegg.com. But it is still $17 more.
#17
Trollsprinkler - Posted 7:35 am PST 11/21/08 (362 Posts)
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Thank you #16.
#18
mattropolis - Posted 11:44 am PST 11/21/08 (209 Posts)
#16 is right - this isn't a deal at all. Or, for in the <$10 range you can get the dongle versions. They all work equally well.
This could only be good for someone that does a lot of this kind of drive swapping around.
This could only be good for someone that does a lot of this kind of drive swapping around.
#19
fsrkewd - Posted 2:03 pm PST 11/21/08 (87 Posts)
pretty cool to slam a hard drive into this thing lol
#20
benzo - Posted 11:38 pm PST 11/22/08 (217 Posts)
These are awesome. Never buy another external drive case.
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