SATA HDD Stage Rack : SATA HDD Stage Rack, plug any 2.5 or 3.5" SATA HDD to your PC at any time!

Posted on Fri Oct 19, 05:05 by Gar
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WOW this i really neeed! Perfect for all those laptop drives I have laying around.

Posted on Fri Oct 19, 06:36 by RedEys, SysAdmin, Linkoping, Sweden, Europe
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It doesn't say Linux among supported OS, but I guess it will work even for that OS.

Posted on Fri Oct 19, 06:48 by Daimaou, Survivor, Tokyo - Japan
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I will try on a Live CD to find out... Ubuntu... but I really think it will work

Posted on Fri Oct 19, 08:35 by TxDot, Software Engineer, Texas, USA
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Is there any way to make something like this work with IDE drives? I have more old IDE drives laying around than SATA drives.

Posted on Fri Oct 19, 08:44 by Daimaou, Survivor, Tokyo - Japan
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The problem with IDE HDD is that they are more difficult to plug in or out of a cradle like this, SATA makes much more sens... but I agree with you, it would have been nice.

Posted on Fri Oct 19, 10:23 by WKC, US of A
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PATA was never designed to be hot swapped like SATA. Notice how SATA (or USB for that matter) have a series of longer pins to maintain proper ground. Most of the connections are not designed to be easily removed as a previous poster stated. In addition PATA drives do not have standard power and connector locations. SATA drives must all follow a standard and be designed connnectors and power in standard locations.

Posted on Fri Oct 19, 12:31 by budtske, belgium
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really want one of these, does anyone know of a european shop/webshop that sells these? 66.8$ shipping + import tax is a little too steep

Posted on Fri Oct 19, 10:45 by peterson
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this is pretty cool i must say..

Posted on Sat Oct 20, 08:04 by Knight, Sydney
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Somebody please tell me they recognize that music.. I\'m hooked! =O

Posted on Sat Oct 20, 04:28 by PiZ, Student, Italy
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...one of the most useful gadget i've seen!!! =)

Posted on Sun Oct 21, 06:47 by NickD
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$40 SHIPPING!?!?! lol you've GOT to be kidding. Reminds me of Ebay bloated shipping fees to increase profit.

Posted on Sun Oct 21, 07:02 by Daimaou, Survivor, Tokyo - Japan
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Shipping from Japan to another country is not cheap...

Posted on Mon Oct 22, 02:29 by matan, israel
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are there any version with firewire?

Posted on Mon Oct 22, 06:03 by Linux, Student, Haifa
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RedEys, it does specifically mention that it works with Linux kernel 2.4 and higher. That means most any distro that\\\'s been out for the past 5 years or so.

Posted on Tue Oct 23, 04:33 by SirJeannot
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this dock is the coolest solution! i've been randomly looking for a simple setup and this is the answer.
i just can't wait for it to be imported in the us/eur.

Posted on Fri Oct 26, 03:20 by Anonymous, Student, IT Manager, CEO, Bounty Hunter..., Shanghai, Seoul, Munich, Tatooine...
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For IDE drives (both 3.5" and 2.5") look at this:
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Posted on Fri Nov 16, 10:31 by cosmos, Software Engineer, Seoul, Korea
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It's GREAT !!
Frankly, I considered similar product with IDE HDD which proved to be impossible.
It's good that the market moved to SATA.
But I will not buy this one because it's PC interface is USB that means I cannot enjoy full functionality of SATA. I think you need to devise SATA2 to E-SATA model also. I'll wait for that.

Posted on Wed Jan 30, 06:03 by noimagination, sw qa engineer, santa cruz CA, usa
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does anyone own one? if so who is the manufacturer. I doubt it's manufactured in Japan (probably china). It's expensive to ship them one at a time outside of japan. If you put a few thousand in a shipping container, it gets real cheap, real fast.

Posted on Thu Apr 10, 07:45 by stev, usa, usa
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Has anyone looked at the same type of docking station from ViPower?

The product is USB2.0 to SATA.

Also, someone asked about USB2.0 to IDE (PATA). Yes, they have that too!

You can even get them in Firewire for faster speed!

Just scroll down to the U-Series on this page ...

http://en.vipower.com/products01.php?CID=122&PageID=119