Friday, April 25, 2014

technology musings: Hands on with Synchrotech's M-520 Portable Bluetoo...


technology musings: Hands on with Synchrotech's M-520 Portable Bluetoo...: Synchrotech lent us one of their M-520 speakers to play with for an afternoon. The first thing that was apparent was that this device&#3...

Monday, April 7, 2014

SATA 6Gb/s Internal 2.5-inch SSD/HDD/SSHD Dock for Floppy Bays

SATA 6Gb/s Internal 2.5-inch SSD/HDD/SSHD Dock for Floppy Bays

Turn any floppy drive bay into a high performance removable connector for the latest notebook size storage devices using the SATA 6Gb/s Internal 2.5-inch SSD/HDD/SSHD Dock for Floppy Bays. Easy to install, this economical device for desktop computers provides a simple way to deploy the whole range of 7, 9.5, and 15mm 2.5-inch storage devices as if they were any other removable media. Connecting to a computer’s SATA 6Gb/s bus and 22-pin SATA power, the SATA 6Gb/s Internal 2.5-inch SSD/HDD/SSHD Dock for Floppy Bays provides maximum performance with the latest SATA Solid State Drives (SSD), 10,000 and 7,200 RPM Hard Disk Drives (HDD), and Hybrid SSD/HDD devices (SSHD). The unit is backwards compatible with previous SATA versions, and is bootable. Change 2.5-inch devices quickly by using an operating system’s method to safely unmount the drive, then popping out and in SATA disks as if they were floppy disks.

Shown here utilizing:

  • INTEL SSDSC2CT080A4 80GB SSD
  • Seagate ST500LM000-1EJ162 500GB SSHD
  • Western Digital WDC WD3200BEKX-00B7WT0 320GB HDD