(photo source: freecom.com) Freecom Hard Drive Dock | US$33.90 | www.freecom.com
this product is not the newest new product but i find that it is really useful and an useful product deserved mentioning again. what happen if you need some info on an old HDD that isn’t installed on a PC? (personal experience, unfortunately) previously, you would have to reinstall it into a PC or get yourself an external hard drive enclosure. i have a few old hard drives lying around and the Freecom Hard Drive Dock could definitely be in action to retrieve data that i have in those hard drives.
the Hard Drive Dock accepts both 2.5″ and 3.5″ SATA internal hard drives and the dock itself comes with both USB 2.0 and eSATA connectivity. there’s no cooling fan with this dock, thus operation is quite. i guess you don’t need any cooling when you drive is naked. docking the internal SATA hard drives to the dock enable you to quickly retrieve of data, formatting the drive et cetera, without installing the drive back to the PC. why didn’t anybody came up with this earlier?
