02-20-2010, 04:02 AM
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Nice Deals on Thermaltake HD Docs (refurb)
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02-20-2010, 04:14 AM
What is the appeal of these over enclosure or the 'just cable' doohickies?
02-20-2010, 04:22 AM
The just cable ones are sometimes "iffy" and these are physically more robust.
02-20-2010, 04:26 AM
Mini 9 wrote: I've tried several and i've never gotten one of the 'just cable' doohickies to work.
02-20-2010, 06:31 AM
I bought a "just cable doohickey" for $14 to demystify a couple of old IDE drives. It worked O.K., but hooking up that mess of cables is pretty inelegant. Probably easier with eSATA (which I didn't try), but the power cable on the IDEs is so tight that it makes the whole ordeal pretty unpleasant. Turns out I had already wiped all four of those drives I was trying to demystify, so I was slightly less disappointed than Geraldo Rivera when he opened that safe. All my new drives are eSATA, so the cable is going back and I'm going to use the dock I got in the New Egg Spinpoint deal instead.
There are many similar generic drives that probably work just as well, but $15 for the BlackX is money wel spent. Being able to swap drives this easily feels like a luxury. They pop in and out just like a toaster. But with no crumbs or twist-ties.
02-20-2010, 01:20 PM
Love our Thermaltake BlackX. Why over external boxes? Because the doc remains connected with one cable and can quickly just pull out HD and stick in another. Can purchase bare drives much cheaper than drives and cases combined.
02-20-2010, 02:45 PM
SATA hard drives and USB/eSATA connection to the machine.
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