Vantec Nexstar SATA 2.5IN/3.5IN Hard Drive Docking Station USB2.0 eSATA

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Had this thing for virtually two years now, replaced and old enclosure and i've had accomplishment with at least five distinct harddrives working with it. My good friends have needed to use it several occasions to recover information from a dieing computer. Performs nice more than a number of platforms i.e. windows, linux and mac, and is recognized inside seconds of being plugged into a new method. Good dock for the price. The blue led light is a little bright for more than evening use, ends up acting as a nightlight if i dont cover it up or turn it off. May possibly get a single as a gift for my buddy so he stops using mine.

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great case, intelligent design. How convenient is it? Envision how simple you exchange the magnetic video tape in a video recorder. With this style accessible, i recommend buy a shelf for placing tricky drivers with suitable labels on them so you can tell what is inside each disk. Exchanging challenging drivers only requires ten seconds!!!!! So intense!!!!!!!!!!!!! the slot is loose to the extent that challenging driver truly can move forth and back with amplitude about .five mm. Absolutely everyone knows tough driver should be fixed in position ahead of using. That unwanted vibration can harm tough disk. Even so, this vibration can be prevented by stuffing some paper to tighten up the slot. For that reason, it is genuinely not a large deal now. That is why i give a 5 to this item. Acquire it. A revolutionary style.

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Easy to use. Handy. Fast. USB rate at 30-50Mbs, eSata at 80-100Mbs. Couldn't get hot swappable esata to perform. Very good value. I have observed these from importers at twice to three instances the cost. I'm glad they lastly started producing them in the States.

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got this, hooked it up, and it just performs, I had a 320 gig drive with alot of stuff i didnt want to lose, was a bit afraid to pull it out of the case and hook it up, I did just that, and it worked perfectly, I love this thing, performs wonderful! cons? no cons,, even the usb is rapidly,, i wanted to use e-Sata but my program wasnt ready with my new mother board, I have been backing stuff up, and moved it all to this 320 gig drive, the speed on usb is not e-Sata, but i am quite pleased it has all my data, and I can access it with no concerns.

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I have run two really significant files(well formatting a 1tb drive) and backing up my method whick was 138 gigs. It took awhile, but finished both jobs perfectly. NONE I only wish it came with firewire to speed issues up on big files.

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I lastly got around to trying this device out immediately after buying it a while ago. It is a wonderful concept in theory and the price tag was proper. I wish I had waited for much more evaluations before acquiring. Throughout a CD boot of F9 with a perfectly good (took it out of an additional machine to test with) Western Digital 80GB ST380013AS drive the machine would appear to hang. Following about a minute of waiting for things to unstick on their own I looked over to see smoke coming out of the slot. 1 of the components on the back of the drive got so hot it cracked and melted the inside of the drive dock. I hooked it up employing an eSATA plate also bought from Newegg (the KingWin 15" cable model I believe). I'm not confident exactly where the difficulty lies, but I suspect it is someplace amongst these two products. The SATA ports on the MB function fine and the drive worked fine just before all this. I suppose the drive may have gone bad during the switch, but this doesn't appear most likely.I have due to the fact read numerous far more evaluations on the internet for unique Vantec NexStar items that went poor also producing smoke and/or ruining challenging drives. I feel I will be steering clear of them from now on and suggest you all do the similar.

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Exceptional it perform like a Charm!!! I have been working with these Drive Dock to backup my server and is really very good!!!! So far none

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The concept appears good Device never ever worked from the get-go. It powers up and when connected with a USB chord Windows XP and Vista each recognize that I have a new USB input, but can't see something else. Attempted on two unique computers. The situation on this is quite, incredibly affordable. Its not just plastic, its uber-low cost plastic. Invest elsewhere.

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Inexpensive and very handy. None Operates with new Seagate 1.5TB difficult drives (ST31500341AS.)

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Easy to use, worked pretty nicely with both 2.five'' and three.5'' when new. Cool light. The button is hard to operate, only when pressed from a particular angle will it stay down. often had to attempt many times, poor to my drives...now it's doesn't operate anymore, for no apparent explanation. not too long ago the usb drops right after a even though (like just about every 10mins)...and reconnects immediately after a couple of additional minutes sometimes...so backing up by it is impossible since any huge copy would fail...

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worked fine for a couple of weeks. Soon after 5 weeks, the usb connection STOPPED operating. SATA nevertheless works fine. Nonetheless, the device i will need it connected to only has USB.. so now i have a า book shelf ornament. Don't obtain it! Manufacturer Response:We are deeply sorry that your item is not working adequately. Rest assure that your product if it is below a year from the date of buy does have a one year warranty. Please apply for an RMA number from our RMA center/warranty section situated here (http://www.vantecusa.com/front/rma/warranty). If you have any further concerns please feel cost-free to e-mail us back as we would be a lot more than satisfied to further help you. Thank you and have a good day!

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Great idea. The HD will reset inside five mins of power on. After that it seems to perform fine. I have attempted this on three various computers. This pattern is 100% reproducible. Can you say data corruption!Do a internet search on it. A user reported a fire hazard, and he has images to back it up. You would feel that immediately after all these years of creating external HD enclosures, that they would get it ideal. Effectively, I guess this will be a different manufacturer that I will be boycotting. Be very afraid, RUN from this item!

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No require to obtain an external enclosure for every single added hard drive you have.just plug and play essentially.I purchased this along with a 400gb western digital sata II drive and was in a position to transfer a folder with over 5gb of video files in just under 6 minutes utilizing the usb connection.Sleek, modular design. comes with e-sata cdord and the sata to e-sata bracket for your pc case. Not confident if this is precise to this hardware or to my technique, but I cannot use the esata function unless I energy up the dock with a hard drive in it Just before I boot up my pc.It HAS to be on at boot for my computer to see it or permit me to access it.If I turn it OFF and then back on later, it won't be accessible or even visible as far as windows is concerned till I reboot the complete program.With USB, you can turn your hardware on and off and windows will see it each and every time.E-sata provides more quickly transfer speeds but you have to leave the dock turned on all the time the pc is on.

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You can quickly swap the tough drive in few sec. As opposed to USB head, sata head is not style for regularly plug and unplug. I have this device for practically a single year. I examine the pins on the sata pin from tough drive. They damaged pretty significantly.

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Works effectively and keeps my HP DV7-1170US pretty awesome even when playing games like CS:S (at least...when the cable isn't shorted out). Cable has shorted out following getting applied for almost two months. In the past two weeks I've had to bend it in "such" a fashion as to preserve the light on so it would perform...but currently the cable flat died. Now I'll have to grab a different 1 ft usb cable for replacement. I'd expect the cable to final a bit longer than 2 months taking into consideration the price of the unit. Be prepared to adjust the cable...probably go ahead and get a superior good quality cable from the begin (as it will generally be in a half-circle configuration).

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Characteristics. Reset at random. The difficulty exists below both USB and SATA mode. The dilemma occurred with 2 Gigabyte (AMD) boards. I will attempt with an ASUS (Nvidia) board subsequent. Also late for refund. I might replace it.

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what pros? Quit working after a couple of months of use. Piece of junk! Don't obtain!!!

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I've had this dock for practically a month now, and it's operating perfect. It functions with all SATA Tough drives I've put in it Ɠ or 4) and I use it as an external hard drive every day. Functions properly with my Samsung HD103SI 1TB Challenging drive. eSata is incredible. The cables that come with it are low-cost, but they do the job. The esata cable functions just fine with my desktop but not my laptop, I don't believe it's lengthy sufficient to reach the terminals. Oh well. NOTE: Vantec has changed their design for the far better! The energy brick you see with the funky design and style in the pictures is NOT what's included anymore! now it's a huge plug (not a brick) with a circular sort connector. It has given me zero difficulties so far.

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Easy to configure and out of the box is what you get. eSATA function transfers quickly as described but I didn't 'clock' the speed. Making use of it with 1TB WD SATA HD. None genuinely.

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The eSata connection is a need to-have. I repair computers and this dock is one particular of my essential tools. I use it for backing up whole tricky drives and for significant file transfers. I just transferred 31GB amongst 9000+ files in 1 copy operation with no a hitch.Just about every brand of drive....from 40GB to 2TB....2.five" or three.five"....This dock has read just about every drive I've ever thrown at it. None for me. Yes, the unit is extremely light when it's empty. You get utilized to it. Just hold on to it when you eject a disk.I've had the unit's power cord plugged in for months and have by no means had a power dilemma or heat issue.Studying by way of these reviews, numerous of the concerns listed as cons are much more from complications with other hardware or just plain 'ol operator error. Right here's what I do...I load a drive into the dock.I turn the unit on and wait for the drive to spin up.I plug the esata cable in to the computer.The drive can then be accessed by way of Windows Explorer nearly promptly.If the hard drive is new, you may have to initialize and/or format it using your disk manager.

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Got it in less than a day! (I'm in NY)It's solid adequate, doesn't look cheap or light, as a lot of strange individuals stated.It's not tight for HDs either...No time for total assessment yet, but these had been the main complains. Meaningless complains I have to say. Absolutely nothing but, but I have it for 1 hour only.I only wanted to say that a lot of complains has no sense whatsoever... I generally don't care about packaging, but this one particular is just great!

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The 2nd one I had, really worked as advertised... The initial one I received didn't operate at all. TY Newegg! They honored their RMA policy...No queries asked. I am totally satisfied. Newegg is the ideal in the enterprise.

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Easy straight forward style leaves small to misinterpret. On/Off switch in front beats obtaining to unplug the device. Can it genuinely be named an enclosure? This device is just a slight step up from bare wires. Not seriously developed for extended term use but a convenient troubleshooting tool. Mine's stopped operating immediately after a year but I'd likely purchase a different a single.

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Great idea for a product. My three.5" SATA HDD's slip in effortlessly, but I can nonetheless feel a "click" when the drive attaches to the connectors inside so I know it's now connected. Transfer rates for my WD 640GB drives are up about 80 to 100 MB/sec for substantial file transfers. Comes with all the connectors you'll will need. has a little bit of a plastic really feel to it (doesn't appear to influence overall performance although. This saves me digging in my case all the time when switching difficult drives.

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The NST-D100SU is quickly, cheap, and effortless to use. There is certainly no efficiency hit when making use of the esata port as compared to the internal sata port. None so far. Good for these who have previously purchased enclosures, and plan to purchase more in the future. With this unit you no longer need to have a separate enclosure for every challenging drive.