Product Details
- Product Dimensions: 3.5 x 5 x 0.6 inches ; 1.8 pounds
- Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
- ASIN: B00346I5LI
- Item model number: EN3525D
List Price :
Price : $19.48
You Save : $0.51 (3%)
Product Description
The Diablotek EN3525D Hard Drive Docking Station offers fast, secure digital data storage and transfer (up to 480MBps) for both 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch SATA hard drives. Easily connects to your PC’s USB 2.0 ports. You don’t even have to reboot your computer! This plug ; play device mounts to your PC within seconds. The versatile Diablotek EN3525D Hard Drive Dock gives you a solid, high-performance source for your critical digital data and offers state-of-the-art cooling and a durable construction to protect and preserve your information. When you need the best performance at the most affordable price, it’s time to choose Xion. Order the Diablotek EN3525D Hard Drive Dock today!
Diablotek EN3525D Hard Drive Docking Station
Technical Details
- Enclosure Type: Dock
- Compatible Drives: 3.5"/2.5" Hard Drives
- Drive Interface: SATA
- Enclosure Interface: SATA to USB 2.0
Costumer Reviews
The picture looks exactly like another product that's more expensive. So I bought this instead to save a few bucks (and I can't use the eSATA interface the other product offers on my home computer). The drive spun up, the lights came on, and nobody was home, with my brand new Seagate drive not being recognizable to my Windows 7 system. In Customer Support, the lights are on and nobody is home at Diablotek, as well. The documentation is almost nonexistent, providing little beyond how to plug it in. So I decided to return it to Amazon.
But, with a little curiosity and one single brain cell still connected to an ancient Windows experience from a decade ago, I told Disk Management in Windows 7 that yes, I really do want to use this disk drive that we all agree is right there, and from that point things magically started working.
Here's the steps I needed to make this work in Windows 7 (conceptually identical in this regard to other MS Operating systems of the last 10 years): Start Menu, right click on Computer, left click on Manage, right click on the drive that my computer could find but didn't want to use yet (get this right, and don't pick the wrong one, OK?). Then I could either activate the partition or format the drive. This is not exactly user friendly.
So how, you ask, can I recommend this product. The answer is that it is an extremely inexpensive solution to a very large problem: How do I maintain large, off-site, low cost disk backups in a format that can be mounted on any computer, anytime? This is a perfect solution, in that it results in a standard SATA drive at less than $75/TB which I could keep in a desk drawer at work, and which, if installed in any other windows PC, instantly would provide access to my data.
The USB interface is slow, taking almost 20 hours to copy 500GB. But after the initial copy, the backup software I use (Folderclone) takes less than 10 minutes to figure out which of my millions of files and Email messages need to be copied or deleted in order to have an exact replica (some are pictures I took yesterday, some date back to when we booted computers by rubbing floppy disks with magnets). A daily backup typically takes less than 30 minutes.
I ordered this even though it only says PC in the description, but figured I'd try my luck. Plugged it into my Mac and it worked right away. Someone else complained about a short USB. I didn't even try the one that came with it and instead used a long one I already had, and that worked fine too. Great price for a Dock that can work on a PC or Mac!
Diablotek EN3525D Hard Drive Docking Station
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