Got this Hard drive dock in a trade.

[Phaihn]

Got this in a trade gave away 2 80GB Laptop drives what do you guys think of this thing and I know it came from china I looked it up.
funny thing is it shows the smart data through USB is that a common feature of hard drive docks?

[goontron]

Re: Got this Hard drive dock in a trade.

some yes, like my laptop SATA to USB3.0 adapter S.M.A.R.T works good but there are ones out there that cant read S.M.A.R.T correctly(always showing ONE bad sector and cant run conveyance self test)but the rest works great.

[edit] looks like it might have a habit with tipping over careful with that.[/edit]

[Phaihn]

Re: Got this Hard drive dock in a trade.

some yes, like my laptop SATA to USB3.0 adapter S.M.A.R.T works good but there are ones out there that cant read S.M.A.R.T correctly(always showing ONE bad sector and cant run conveyance self test)but the rest works great.

[edit] looks like it might have a habit with tipping over careful with that.[/edit]

should be fine as long as I keep an eye on it.
personally I would have half a mind to try putting the PCB into my computer tower where the built in dock is.

but as I have read online I can make it hot swappable but it will take some configuration.

[digge]

Re: Got this Hard drive dock in a trade.

I have one just like it. Mine however got both IDE and SATA connectors as well as built in cardreader for loads of formats. But the formfactor is the same. Got it for free from a friend due to the usb connector had broken off. The soldering was so crappy that the connector had broken loose in one piece and i just had to solder it back in and works a charm. Only downside ive noticed so far is that the power adapter that came with it is a bit low on power, so if you do multiple copy operations at once so the head has to move a lot it sometimes just craps out, but other then that works fine.

I know its a cheap china thing cause that is where my friend got it from. But hey free is free

[kc8adu]

Re: Got this Hard drive dock in a trade.

many of these docks have crap power supplies.a friend had one that was buggy as hell till i put the custom power cable on a decent and recapped 5 and 12v brick.its been fine ever since.the original was light,empty, and crude.it would not spin a wd 1tb black.he thought it was bad till he brought it to me to try and recover data.

[ratdude747]

Re: Got this Hard drive dock in a trade.

Given that you gave away two laptop drives, I personally thought you got ripped off, especially if the drives were PATA and/or 7200RPM. I'd give maybe a 40gb SATA laptop drive or the like for that...

Agreed on the PSU bricks being junk for china docks... IIRC there's a thread on that actually.

[turbozutek]

Re: Got this Hard drive dock in a trade.

I have the exact model you do. It's rubbish. Totally unreliable, good if you want to wipe a hard disk quickly because every second write it lays down some garbage to the disk.

YMMV, best of luck!

Chris...

[Phaihn]

Re: Got this Hard drive dock in a trade.

Given that you gave away two laptop drives, I personally thought you got ripped off, especially if the drives were PATA and/or 7200RPM. I'd give maybe a 40gb SATA laptop drive or the like for that...

Agreed on the PSU bricks being junk for china docks... IIRC there's a thread on that actually.

they were 80gb sata drives. nothing special.

[Phaihn]

Re: Got this Hard drive dock in a trade.

I have the exact model you do. It's rubbish. Totally unreliable, good if you want to wipe a hard disk quickly because every second write it lays down some garbage to the disk.

YMMV, best of luck!

Chris...

is that with or without installing the driver that came with it?

[brethin]

Re: Got this Hard drive dock in a trade.

Its a cheap dock you can get for under $20 on Newegg if you watch for them to go on sale. I would have never traded 2 80 2.5" sata drives for it but its your stuff so do what you want.

Do me a favor next time you have hard drives to unload let me know.

[Phaihn]

Re: Got this Hard drive dock in a trade.

what would shipping cost from Edson to where you are?

[brethin]

Re: Got this Hard drive dock in a trade.

what would shipping cost from Edson to where you are?

Asumming your talking to me, it would depend on the weight and size of the package. Does that mean you have some hard drives to unload?

[Phaihn]

Re: Got this Hard drive dock in a trade.

I have some but I have to check there health before I can consider selling them.

[cheapie]

Re: Got this Hard drive dock in a trade.

I took apart an external hard drive to get a tiny little USB-SATA board. It supports hot-swapping and SMART. Problem is there's no DC-DC converter to get 12V, so it only works with laptop drives (and most destop SSDs).