Written on April 5, 2008 – 3:00 am | by Bogdan Alex |
The SSD drives are threatening the old HDDs with extinction. Current prices for the SSDs still prohibit a large scale takeover, but in just a couple of years the HDDs could become some sort of obsolete devices. My guess is that SDDs won’t replace all the HDDs on the market that fast. However, if they somehow managed to do that, what would we do with the remaining HDDs? Well, you could use the USB HDD dock for quick file transfers.

The USB HDD Dock from Brando also comes with a USB hub. Not only does it take 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch SATA drives in the top like an old Nintendo console cartridge, there's an added 4-port USB hub on the front panel. True, it uses one USB 2.0 port from your PC, but you get that back plus three more when you use the hub.

Here’s some more info on the product:

• Temperature and Humidity: 5 ° ~ 35 °, humidity 20 ~ 80% (This machine should be used in the operation range of the connected PC)
• AC Power Adapter input: 100 ~ 240V, 50/60Hz, 1.5A
• AC Power Adapter output: 12V/3A
• Support Windows VISTA, XP and Mac OS
• Dimension: 130 mm (W) x 68 mm (H) x 90 mm (D)
• Weight: 892g (approx)

The $82 price could prove a bit exaggerated, but it could come in handy when SDDs will reign supreme.