[LUNI] drive docks

[eviljoel]

Hello Carl,

I have the ThermalTake BlackX dock and I use it more than I expected I
would.  Over eSata it works great and stuff transfers fast.  Works
with small and large drives alike.  It also supports USB.  I recommend
buying one.

Sometimes you can get my model with rebates for about $20.

Later,
EJ


> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:53:22 -0500
> From: Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com>
> Subject: [LUNI] drive docks
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> Anyone know anything good/bad about drive docks?  (dock = cradle to
> hot swap a raw drive)
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817121043
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> I want to be able to hook up a cheap (so 3.5" I think) 1T sata drive
> to a laptop usb (or maybe firewire if it matters) and then be able to
> pull the drive and hook it to a file server's sata card via a cable
> hanging out the back, or an esata port on the file server and use a
> magic? esata to sata cable:
>
> http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10226&cs_id=1022603&p_id=3750&seq=1&format=2
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> and some sort of power dangling out the back of the file server.
>
> The use is: record 100gig of video files all day long (30mbs, so usb
> speed is fine), pull drive, walk it from talk room to file server room
> and get the data onto the file server fast.  Currently there is a
> bottle neck when I need to move 8 rooms of 100gig data onto the file
> server: it takes hours.  Trying to figure out how to optimise that.
>
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