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FireWire Drive Dock: how exactly does this work?
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May 28, 2003, 01:49 AM
 
http://www.wiebetech.com/products.html#firewiredd

Basically this is a FireWire bridge that attaches to an IDE drive, but there is no case.

My question is why would anyone want this? Who carries around caseless hard drives?

Can someone describe a situation in which this would be useful. Without an external case, the hard drive would just be lying around. That can't be good.

And it ain't cheap: FireWire DriveDock with AC Adapter (FWDD-COMBO): $139.95
     
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May 28, 2003, 04:37 AM
 
if i were someone who needed to swap out a lot of internal drives frequently, i'd want something like that. but i'm not... and i don't know anyone who is.

-r.
     
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May 28, 2003, 05:23 AM
 
Yeah. It's convenient for tech support people.
     
   
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