Archive for March 29th, 2008

SATA disk to USB docking station

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

This is the coolest thing ever!  I needed to recover some data from a customer’s crashed SATA drive and was struggling with it. I happened across the BlacX by ThermalTake. I plugged it in and nothing happened, then I slid a 2 1/2″ SATA drive into it and lo and behold, I was able to access the drive.  It support hot-swaps and didn’t require any drivers on my Vista Business computer.  This has potential to be a great backup solution - you can easily take a copy of your important data off-site.

I put in the customer’s 3 1/2″ drive and it recognized that, too - even though it was having problems. I ran GetDataBack on it and was able to recover most of her data.   (Dell and her local computer shop both told her that the data was just gone and nothing could be done… HA!)  At just under $50 this belongs in every computer technician’s toolbox.


THERMALTAKE N0028USU BLACX USB HARD DRIVE DOCK - SATA, 2.5, 3.5 (STORAGE)

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