Thermaltake BlacX Duet USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive ST0014U
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Industry's most trusted hard drive docking station is now twice as convenient. BlacX Duet now offers two slots to turn any Serial ATA hard drives into external USB 2.0 or eSATA storage device in minutes. Moving large chunks of videos, musics or data files between hard drives will now happen in blazing speed (up to 3.0 Gbps for eSATA or 480Mbps for USB 2.0) instead of the slow network cable. The dock supports all 2.5 inch or 3.5 inch SATA hard dis... » full description
Industry's most trusted hard drive docking station is now twice as convenient. BlacX Duet now offers two slots to turn any Serial ATA hard drives into external USB 2.0 or eSATA storage device in minutes. Moving large chunks of videos, musics or data files between hard drives will now happen in blazing speed (up to 3.0 Gbps for eSATA or 480Mbps for USB 2.0) instead of the slow network cable. The dock supports all 2.5 inch or 3.5 inch SATA hard disk drives up to 2 TB. Installation requires no screws or tools whatsoever. Simply pop your hard drive into the dock, plug it into your computer and you are set! Hot-swap support means you can use multiple hard drives with your computer without having to reboot. The dock also maximizes heat dissipation and exhaust to protect your device from damage and extend its life. Compatibility with both PCs and Macs makes the BlacX Duet adapt to multi platform environments. « short desciption
User Reviews
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Review Date: 2009-11-24
this product is great - allows me to use SATA drives and easily switch drives out as needed. I highly recommend it.
User: Josh Trefethen
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Summary: Great eSATA dock
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 0
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Review Date: 2009-11-23
I bought this mainly for the fast eSata support, but was greatly dissapointed to find out that my computer will not support dual eSata as it doesn't have port multiplier functionality. My computer is fairly new as well and running Windows 7 Professional. Most people won't know if their computer has port multiplier functionality until they buy an item such as this and try it. Dual drives work good using USB, but you only get 400MB transfer rates and not 3GB as you do with eSata. The eSata with 1 drive does work but is somewhat flakey as well. What will happen is at least 25% of the time when you reboot the computer and you are using the dock connected via eSate cable, the computer will lose sight of the dock and tell you there is no eSata dock/drive connected. Only way to redetect the dock and drive is to power down the dock as well as computer, then power on the dock, let the drive initialize for approx. 30 seconds, then power back on the computer. Using the USB cable, this does not happen, so one can only assume the eSata connectivity between the port and the computer is flakey. Other than that, I like the dock as it's fairly light and easy to use amoung several computers to backup and copy data too.
User: G. Morris
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Summary: Would buy the single drive version if given the choice again
Helpful Votes: 1
Total Votes: 1
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Review Date: 2009-11-21
This dock makes things so much easier when you need to connect an additional hard drive to your computer.
No more opening up the case and hooking up the internal cables. Especially useful if you have a desktop that goes bad and you need to connect to a laptop where you don't have the option of opening it up.
You can even use it as just a external hard drive.
Note, I thought the eSata function wasn't working, turns out I didn't have AHCI enabled in the bios. If you don't enable AHCI in the bios, you have to manually detect the dock in device manager by scanning for changes.
Also, if you already installed windows while AHCI was disabled, you won't be able to boot windows after making the change in the bios, but a quick registry edit will correct this in Vista and 7, you're out of luck with XP
User: iams
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Summary: one of the best inventions
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 0
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Review Date: 2009-11-19
I opened the package, plugged everything in, and the first problem i noticed was that there was only 1 esata port.
And it turns out that unless you've got some esata port multiplier built into your hardware, you're out of luck.
So i'm returning this and instead getting 2 individual docks.
User: james halkowich
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Summary: no port multiplier makes this drive a waste
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 1
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Review Date: 2009-11-16
I needed to clone a hard drive and this thing worked perfectly for that purpose. Couldn't be happier.
User: Trevor Goodchild
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Summary: Worked great for me
Helpful Votes: 1
Total Votes: 1
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Product Details
- Fastest external transfer interface available. eSATA: 3.0 Gbps / USB 2.0: 480 Mbps
- Supports All 2.5-Inch and 3.5-Inch SATA Hard Drives up to 2 TB
- Rapid data access and exchange with single eSATA or USB cable connection (eSATA port requires Port Multiplier function)
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