![]() ![]() Next, power off the dock, wait a few seconds to let the hdd spin down, and then press the handy eject button that pops the drive out. I highly recommend USB Safely Remove which adds a wealth of features like making sure a device always gets the same drive letter, adding hot keys for quickly removing a device, and showing what is preventing you from removing a device and releasing those locks. To remove the drive first make sure you go to your tray and safely remove the drive. HD tach shows around 15.4 MB/s which is about right for usb 2.0. After a few seconds for the drive to power and spin up it shows up just fine with a drive letter. Then, reach around back and turn on the power. Next, I dropped the hard drive in much like inserting an Atari 2600 cartridge (am I dating myself?). Hooking it up vista 32bit installed the usual drivers which are already built into the OS pretty much like any sata to usb cable or external enclosure. The only sata hard drive I had sitting around to use for testing at the time was a 320gb 5400 rpm 2.5" laptop hard drive. ![]() The smaller cut out is for 2.5" laptop hard drives. I like how there are two sets of flaps to keep the dust out. Then, you can quickly and easily swap any SATA hard drive (2.5" or 3.5"). You hook this up to your pc either via USB or eSata. Sure it basically duplicates the functionality of a sata to usb cable but puts it into a very convenient package. Picked one up from newegg for $30 after $10 MIR. ![]()
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