Seagate 5.0GB Pocket Hard Drive: Seagate Technology has been in the business of manufacturing disc drives since 1979 and their nearly 30 years of experience has certainly showed with their vast lineup of storage products. In fact, in 2004 Seagate had shipped over 6.6 petabytes of total storage in the form of 82.5 million drives! The Seagate product we are testing today is their 5GB Pocket Hard Drive.

Industry Reviews

Zalman ZM-HE350 U3 Hard Drive

techgage.com: Choosing the right CPU, GPU, or even SSD could be considered difficult - but so could simple peripherals, such as an HDD enclosure. These seem to be a dime a dozen, and while many consumer purchases may boil down to aesthetic value, we've discovered with Zalman's ZM-HE350 U3 that not all external enclosures perform alike.

Thermaltake BlacX USB Hard Drive

thinkcomputers.org: When you think of Thermaltake you think cases and power supplies, not hard drive enclosures. While they do make hard drive enclosures they are not known for that, but they soon might be with the BlacX. The BlacX is not really a hard drive enclosure, it is more of a docking station.

Thermaltake BlacX SE Hard Drive Dock

ocia.net: For testing, I used two programs, HD Tach and HD Tune, to test the write and read speeds of the drive in the dock. For reference purposes, the drive used was a 3.5 Maxtor 320GB, 7200 RPM SATA Drive. During testing, I was curious to see how having USB devices plugged into the hub would affect drive performance as they share the same USB bus to the computer.

Thermaltake BlacX USB Hard Drive Docking Station

ocia.net: Thermaltake took note of this and created a product that really stood out at the show, a hard drive docking station known as the BlacX. The idea behind this product is so simple and yet, so ingenious that I am shocked that nobody else has thought of it yet.

Thermaltake BlacX 5G Hard Drive Docking Station

legitreviews.com: The Thermaltake BlacX 5G Hard Drive Docking Station is a dream come true for folks that want to set up a rotating drive backup scheme. You could backup to a drive for two weeks and then swap out the drive with a second drive while placing the first drive in a secure place.

In Win Na Hard Drive Enclosure

modders-inc.com: Once in a while you may come across an item that makes you take a second look, not because of what it looks like but more of what it doesn't look like. The In Win NA Hard Drive enclosure happens to be one of those items.

Kingwin Z1 Hard Drive Enclosure

tweaknews.net: Kingwin has a solid performer in the Z1. Ease of use, good looks, and choice of colors adds up to a winning combination. I had no problems installing a drive, and it was immediately recognized by Windows. Driverless installation makes things easy (except for you Windows 98 users.cmon, upgrade to XP at least, you luddites!).

Additional Zalman BlacX ZM-HE350 U3 Hard Drive reviews: I-Star T5F-SS Hot-Swap Hard Drive Bay, Sunbeamtech Hard Drive Docking Station, Kingwin Elite Series Hard Drive Enclosure, Vantec NexStar 3i External Hard Drive Enclosure, Icy Dock MB664US eSATA/USB External Hard Drive, Vantec NexStar Dual Bay Hard Drive Dock, OCZ Z-Drive m84 PCI-Express SSD, QNAP TS-409 Pro 4-Drive SATA, Thecus N4100PRO Four-Drive NAS Server, OCZ Throttle eSATA Flash Drive, and Super Talent FSD28GC25M 128GB Solid State Drive.

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