USB Hard Drive Docking Station

JayC5

Hi,

Just wondering if any of you guys can offer some info on the above, I purchased a USB docking station for SATA drives recently (suitable for either 2.5 or 3.5 drives, literally just slot them in) but before I go ahead and buy a new drive I need some advice:

Is there any difference other than speed between SATA-300 & SATA-150?

Also I emailed company support but got no response on this, I'm looking at getting a 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda hard drive for the dock - does anyone know if there's a limit to what I can attach in terms of capacity? (Apols about all the questions but there's no info provided with it or on the company website concerning this - thought someone here might have some experience with these gizmos)



Cheers for your help, and thanks in advance for any feedback

BaconZombie

I've the Sharkoon dual SATA version of the dock and currently using a 300G SATA-150 and a Samsung 1TB SATA-300 with now issues.
SATA-300 is backwards compatible with SATA-150.


Edit:

Where did you get the dual IDE/SATA dock, I bought my dual one in Berlin but still looking to get one for my old IDE drives.

JayC5 wrote: »

Hi,

Just wondering if any of you guys can offer some info on the above, I purchased a USB docking station for SATA drives recently (suitable for either 2.5 or 3.5 drives, literally just slot them in) but before I go ahead and buy a new drive I need some advice:

Is there any difference other than speed between SATA-300 & SATA-150?

Also I emailed company support but got no response on this, I'm looking at getting a 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda hard drive for the dock - does anyone know if there's a limit to what I can attach in terms of capacity? (Apols about all the questions but there's no info provided with it or on the company website concerning this - thought someone here might have some experience with these gizmos)



Cheers for your help, and thanks in advance for any feedback

JayC5

Cheers for the response BOFH, appreciate the info.