Thermaltake BlacX N0028USU External Hard Drive SATA Enclosure Docking Station 2.5" & 3.5" USB 2.0

Pros: Excellent for those weird occasions when you need to access externally an HDD. No drivers needed on Win7 or Fedora17. Speed is decent, though newer models appear to be USB3.0 compatible. The activity light works well. Back on/off switch is convenient. Hot-swap capacity comes in handy (if you know what you're doing). Heavy enough to be stable, light enough to move around.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: Having drives sitting on this thing means they get excellent air exposure, therefore heat is not a problem.

Pros: Cheap and works well. Haven't tested on 3.5 drives yet. Use it to hotswap drives between pc and laptop.

Cons: None

Pros: Plug 'n play, even on a Hackintosh

Cons: None I found.

Other Thoughts: I found one of these at a local thrift store this weekend. Used it the next day to clone the contents of my Dell hackintosh netbook onto a new 1TB drive, in preparation for a drive swap. Works transparently on OS X Snow Leopard, even on non-Apple hardware, and the HD swap was a success.

Pros: great reader, lets me test HDDs much faster than before. (used to swap them into a machine).

Cons: none, it works as advertise.

Pros: i purchased mine about 4 months ago and right out of the box it worked flawlessly. My laptop is running windows 7 and had no issues finding the "new" drive. I also inserted a WD bare 2TB dive and formatted it with no problems. I liked it so much that I purchased another one just a couple days ago, but caught it on sale this time.

Cons: Not really a con, but it is a bit on the heavy side. I would not recommend this for mobile use.

Other Thoughts: I am currently using it to access data from a old desktop pc that the MB died and it has worked like a champ without a single issue.

Pros: The base is lightweight but very stable on a table or other flat surface. Looks good, works well so far.

Cons: None so far.

Other Thoughts: I ordered this yesterday and got it this morning (far quicker than I had expected!). I needed it to pull some data of an old hard drive where the PC wouldn't boot. I pulled it out of the box, popped the drive in and BAM! I had data copying in about 5 minutes. Easy to use, working great so far and I already have a few more uses for it coming up in the near future.

Pros: Throughput not bad, on par with most external drives. It fits my 3.5" and 2.5" without a problem. Stable base when on a flat surface.Hard drive stays cool.

Cons: Eject button doesn't work very well with the 3.5" hard drive as I have to pull the drive up while holding down on the dock.

Other Thoughts: Because it is treated as an external hard drive by default, you have to wait for it to spin up before it accesses data, so change the drive setting after install for instant access.

Pros: Works fine. USB & Power cord are nice and long and flexible. Shipped fast and arrived in mint condition. The unit will auto shut down the hard driver after several minutes of inactivity, which is nice since my 2008 Hitachi Deskstar 3.0gps 7,200rpm drive gets very hot. The hard drive Im using was rescued from an overheated HP PC, and i needed to retrieve some files that i hadn't backed up, and I was able to do that easily with this device. It is USB 2.0, so moving a file here and there goes quickly, but I also used this unit to reformat my drive, and do a system image back. All went well, but the system image took 4.5 hours. So plan some extra time for the big projects using usb 2.0. I used this dock station on both my Win 7 machines, and had no problems. Enjoy.

Cons: None.

Pros: This is great for backing up files to an empty hard drive

Cons: I have never been able to get it to recognize a drive that wasn't formatted in the docking station itself. That makes it useless for reading drives that I removed from my computer with data already on them. Thermaltake support tried to help, but they couldn't find a solution. This happened on 2 computer - a regular Windows XP Pro, and a Windows XP Pro 64 bit system.

Pros: Easy to set up- just like setting up a usb thumb drive. Makes for excellent use of an internal HD on a computer no longer in use. A great price compared to other shops.

Cons: USB 2.0 does make it rather slow transferring very large files.

Other Thoughts: When the motherboard on my old desktop was starting to come to an end, I knew I wouldn't have enough time to update my regular external HD so I did some searching for solutions and this was the best. The New Egg price definitely made it worth getting. I saw some slightly less costly solutions but based on the reviews, the BlacX turned out to be the best solution.