Comments on: SATA HDD Stage Rack lets you dock your drive

By: Collin

Collin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:10:52 +0000

It’s useful for people with small/mid sized towers and a lot of hard drives. For instance, I have 4 SATA HDs that I’ve collected over the years. Each is around ~100GB and I just use them to store movies/tv shows. It’d be nice to label a HD and just pop it in when needed instead of wasting the power and creating more heat inside my case. Not to mention noise and wear on the HD itself spinning but rarely in use.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:07:31 +0000

If this thing would still be limited by USB 2.0 bandwidth, there isn’t much point. Except convenience, and for systems that don’t have internal SATA I guess.

By: Darrin Olson

Darrin Olson — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:35:14 +0000

Yep, most of them are Nick.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:09:23 +0000

I bet that “drawful of old drives from various upgrades” is, like mine, full of mostly Parallel ATA drives. If the holder thingy fitted these it would indeed be cool.

By: proka

proka — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:18:30 +0000

STUPID

By: Travis

Travis — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:50:26 +0000

Seems like a waste piping SATA through USB 2.0. I wish they would have included a FW 800 port on the back. Then I’d be interested.

By: gearloos

gearloos — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:02:07 +0000

I already do this with sata AND IDE drives.
Just go buy an external inclosure that has a slide in style rather than cables. Leave the cover off it. Same thing.
Done….

By: zim

zim — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:46:37 +0000

Would this technology still allow RAID

By: Anti-Anonymous

Anti-Anonymous — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:45:03 +0000

I have 6 external enclosures and not one has a fan. In fact this is not even enclosed so why would you need a fan? It actually looks like a fantastic solution for desktop support techs or backup administrators. The fact that it supports both 2.5 and 3.5 drives is fantastic. This device is obviously for professionals who know how to implement it and not for armatures who are looking for a long-term “proper” solution.

However… the fact that there is only one vendor for this product with outrageous shipping will most likely kill any chance this product has at hitting the end user.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:52:30 +0000

what about overheating? most external hdd have fans to cool down. This is not a long-term proper solution, as the data would be put at risk, becouse of the overheating, and eventually the hdd would go to hell.
I`m not gettin` one.

By: Bill Vincent

Bill Vincent — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:36:37 +0000

Very cool if you do computer repair or have multiple machines in various states of assembly like me….

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:21:04 +0000

So basically you have a Raid USB server… for nubs…

By: Darrin Olson

Darrin Olson — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:35:44 +0000

The shipping is likely due to the heavy base, according to the site. They weighted the base so it won’t be top heavy when the drive is in it.

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:29:52 +0000

Sheesh!! Shipping is outrageous on this toy!!I think I’ll just do without it!! Much as I would like it.

By: Blacknois

Blacknois — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:39:52 +0000

The shipping on this thing is like $50. Is it from the future? Do they have to send it through a time machine to my house?