Thermaltake ST0005U BLACX eSATA&USB-SATA HDD Docking Station $34.99 with free S/H @ superbiiz ( formerly E-Wiz) Sign into Bing.com -> Shopping -> CashBack Stores -> superbiiz -> Goto Store for 20% CashBack Search for the dock - Part#: EN-ST0005U (direct link http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=EN-ST0005U#) Price is $34.99 - $15 MIR - $7 Bing CashBack = $12.99 EDIT: They raised the price from $34.99 to $37.99 so the final price is $27.99 - $15 MIR - $7.60 BingCB = $15.39 Specification Mfr Part Number: ST0005U Features: Patented Design Supports All 2.5" & 3.5" SATA HDDs upto 1TB Hot-Swap Capability for Rapid Multi HDDs Access & Exchange Supports eSATA Transfer Speed upto 3Gbps Supports USB 2.0 Transfer Speed upto 480Mbps Windows & Mac OS Compatible Compact Docking Station Design maximizes Heat Dissipation & Exhaust Windows Vista Ready Interface: SATA to eSATA & USB 2.0 Transfer Rate: eSATA: Upto 3Gbps USB 2.0: Upto 480Mbps SATA Compatible: SATA I & II HDD Compatible: All 2.5" or 3.5" SATA HDD upto 1TB (1,000GB) OS Compatible: Windows Vista/ XP/ 2003/ 2000/ NT/ 98/ 95; Mac 10.3 and later Power: Input 100~240V/ 50~60Hz/ 1A; Output 12V/ 2A Material: ABS Plastic Dimension (WxLxH): 3.55 x 5.12 x 2.56 inch / 90 x 130 x 65 mm RoHS Compliant
kwoker said: I have one of these. It handles Seagate 2TB drives. Well, I had 2 1.5TB Seagate ordered from Dell last time, and it'd not registered at all, it showed in the Device Manager, but won't show in My Computer. What do I need to do to get it show up? Again, thanks in advance.
heartvb said: kwoker said: I have one of these. It handles Seagate 2TB drives. Well, I had 2 1.5TB Seagate ordered from Dell last time, and it'd not registered at all, it showed in the Device Manager, but won't show in My Computer. What do I need to do to get it show up? Again, thanks in advance.
Did you actually initialize those drives and create partitions using disk manager? These extenal Thermaltake docking stations have no bus translation electronics. They are nothing more than a external power supply and data connection for your SATA drive thus they will work with ALL current and future capacity SATA drives.
cnIsfg said: Did you actually initialize those drives and create partitions using disk manager? These extenal Thermaltake docking stations have no bus translation electronics. They are nothing more than a external power supply and data connection for your SATA drive thus they will work with ALL current and future capacity SATA drives.
No, how can I do that? Show me, thanks again....I plugged in SATA 500GB from WD work fine, but when I tried the 1.5 TB Seagate, nothing shown in My Computer.
heartvb said: cnIsfg said: Did you actually initialize those drives and create partitions using disk manager? These extenal Thermaltake docking stations have no bus translation electronics. They are nothing more than a external power supply and data connection for your SATA drive thus they will work with ALL current and future capacity SATA drives.
No, how can I do that? Show me, thanks again....I plugged in SATA 500GB from WD work fine, but when I tried the 1.5 TB Seagate, nothing shown in My Computer. Control panel > computer management > disk manager or as an alternative you can use the DiscWizard utlitiy on Seagate's support site.
Is that 20% off your entire order? I'm thinking about ordering a bigger ticket item - an ASUS EEETop machine for about $400. That would give me another $80 Cash Back, right?
HardSpike said: Is that 20% off your entire order? I'm thinking about ordering a bigger ticket item - an ASUS EEETop machine for about $400. That would give me another $80 Cash Back, right?yup
cnIsfg said: Control panel > computer management > disk manager or as an alternative you can use the DiscWizard utlitiy on Seagate's support site.
I gave up, can't get it work, went to Seagate site and firmware was OK, it showed in the disk management but does not show in my computer. BTW, I am using Dell laptop with Vista Ultimate. Thanks anyway....
dc
Charter Member
posted: Aug. 13, 2009 @ 2:01a
did you try initializing the disk and setting up a partition? is there any type of icon or warning symbol next to the drive?
dc said: did you try initializing the disk and setting up a partition? is there any type of icon or warning symbol next to the drive? It'd not let me do anything, I guess that I have to install it into a desktop and initialize it, I don't have desktop yet, thanks....
cnIsfg said: heartvb said: cnIsfg said: Did you actually initialize those drives and create partitions using disk manager? These extenal Thermaltake docking stations have no bus translation electronics. They are nothing more than a external power supply and data connection for your SATA drive thus they will work with ALL current and future capacity SATA drives.
No, how can I do that? Show me, thanks again....I plugged in SATA 500GB from WD work fine, but when I tried the 1.5 TB Seagate, nothing shown in My Computer. Control panel > computer management > disk manager or as an alternative you can use the DiscWizard utlitiy on Seagate's support site.
also/or, if it is showing up in drive manager, and it has an active partition, make sure it isn't trying to share a drive letter with another devise. (give it a different drive letter).
There are 3 files in the zip: 1. The BlacX Driver zip file 2. A read me first text which contains password 3. INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO INITIALIZE A NEW BLANK DISK
These are great for any PC work. I usually run antivirus and spyware on removed hard drives on my computer, since other computers (family/friends) are usually slower and bogged down with crap. I found it's faster to pull their drive and use this instead of dealing with their PC.
Agreed but the question is will the rebate center see it that way?
H00sierDaddy
Member
posted: Aug. 13, 2009 @ 10:49a
Green for the post but a warning to owners.
I have three of these because they work so well, I leave one plugged into every PC rather than moving them around (yeah, I know I'm lazy). Two are connected with eSATA and one with USB. One of them had an extremely dangerous problem that nearly cost me weeks of work. While transferring a large number of files, I noticed the activity light would periodically go off. All the transfers seemed to complete just fine but I decided to check the Windows Event Viewer and found numerous error messages going back a few weeks when the deviice was first connected. I decided to compare the files copied to or from this device and sure enough they did not match the originals! The originals would have been deleted the following day if I had not noticed the activity light turning off. I am still shaking my head about programs including Explorer just eating the errors without popping up something along the lines of "hey we have a problem here". I have absolutely confirmed the issue is with the docking station's eSATA circuits. The same errors occur no matter what drive is used or what PC it's connected to yet never occur with the other docking stations when doing the exact same operations. So be careful.
heartvb said: cnIsfg said: Control panel > computer management > disk manager or as an alternative you can use the DiscWizard utlitiy on Seagate's support site.
I gave up, can't get it work, went to Seagate site and firmware was OK, it showed in the disk management but does not show in my computer. BTW, I am using Dell laptop with Vista Ultimate. Thanks anyway....
Just checking, when you found it under disc managment, you formatted it right? And it still doesn't show up under my computer?
H00sierDaddy said: Green for the post but a warning to owners.
I have three of these because they work so well, I leave one plugged into every PC rather than moving them around (yeah, I know I'm lazy). Two are connected with eSATA and one with USB. One of them had an extremely dangerous problem that nearly cost me weeks of work. While transferring a large number of files, I noticed the activity light would periodically go off. All the transfers seemed to complete just fine but I decided to check the Windows Event Viewer and found numerous error messages going back a few weeks when the deviice was first connected. I decided to compare the files copied to or from this device and sure enough they did not match the originals! The originals would have been deleted the following day if I had not noticed the activity light turning off. I am still shaking my head about programs including Explorer just eating the errors without popping up something along the lines of "hey we have a problem here". I have absolutely confirmed the issue is with the docking station's eSATA circuits. The same errors occur no matter what drive is used or what PC it's connected to yet never occur with the other docking stations when doing the exact same operations. So be careful.
So what you're saying is that one of your docks is defective and it doesn't give any warning of errors during transfer but the other two docks are fine?
srqt
Senior Member
posted: Aug. 13, 2009 @ 11:21a
good price. i had positive experience w/ this model. may buy another.
Have you used diskpart yet? Go into the start menu to search for Command Prompt (use vista's auto entry box) and when it shows up in the results, right click it and choose run as administrator. At the prompt, type diskpart and hit enter. Then type "list disk" (no "s here or for anything in the rest of this message) and hit enter. There should be a disk in the list that matches the size of the disk you plugged in and it's probably the disk with the highest number. Type "select disk 3" or "select disk X" where X is the number of the disk you want to look at. Next, type "list partition" and if nothing comes up, you're ready for the next step. If partitions show up, select another disk. You do not want to erase a disk that has partitions unless you are absolutely sure it's the right disk. Okay so once you've selected a disk you want to totally erase, type "clean" and then wait a bit. Then type exit. Then go back into control panel and see if you see it.
H00sierDaddy said: Green for the post but a warning to owners.
I have three of these because they work so well, I leave one plugged into every PC rather than moving them around (yeah, I know I'm lazy). Two are connected with eSATA and one with USB. One of them had an extremely dangerous problem that nearly cost me weeks of work. While transferring a large number of files, I noticed the activity light would periodically go off. All the transfers seemed to complete just fine but I decided to check the Windows Event Viewer and found numerous error messages going back a few weeks when the deviice was first connected. I decided to compare the files copied to or from this device and sure enough they did not match the originals! The originals would have been deleted the following day if I had not noticed the activity light turning off. I am still shaking my head about programs including Explorer just eating the errors without popping up something along the lines of "hey we have a problem here". I have absolutely confirmed the issue is with the docking station's eSATA circuits. The same errors occur no matter what drive is used or what PC it's connected to yet never occur with the other docking stations when doing the exact same operations. So be careful.
I always do a md5sum to make sure the files are good and valid.
The $15 rebate is back on this at Amazon, bringing it down to $24.98 and free shipping. I know it isn't as good as $19 but this is the lowest price I can find on the net right now. Not sure if iamchuck's had free shipping at the time though.
This should work great for me although I found my SATA drives are only running about 35mb/sec which is almost half the speed of USB 2.0. Still good to have full SATA II compatability built in for future drives.
Also I noticed this is the same thing as Rosewill RX-DUS100 on Newegg.
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