subject: Portable High Definition Hdd Docking Station-the Best Friends Of Hdd [print this page] If you"ve got a lot of hard disks drives that you use on a regular basis or perhaps you"re an IT or Support Engineer and your job involves testing hard drives then you might want to consider a media player docking station rather than a hard drive enclosure.
Whilst Hard Drive Enclosures are excellent at providing protection for the hard drive and they"re available in a range of interface types, styles and colors they still typically need a few minutes to set up. This is because there are normally a few screws that hold the case together and a couple of screws that are used to hold the hard drive in place in the enclosure. You want these if you are building a permanent or semi-permanent back-up or external storage solution. You want to be comforted by know your hard drive is safe in the enclosure, particularly if you"re carrying it around with you.
But, if you need to check lots of disks on a regular basis and your time is valuable then an alternative is a 1080P full HD media player. These relatively new products are typically permanently connected to your PC or Mac via USB and you then simply "slot" or "dock" the hard drive into the "docking station". They also have their own power supply, which in turn powers the hard drive.
Actually, newer laptops have more than enough USB or fire wire ports for casual use. You might find, however, that you want to access your desktop monitor while using your laptop. You might also find that you want to use a larger keyboard than the one that comes standard with your laptop. In each of these cases, you can certainly plug the monitor or the keyboard directly into the laptop. Plugging that laptop into the docking station, however, allows you much more flexibility.
The 1080P SATA HDD media player supports hard drives from 2.5 inch HDD and from 3.5 inch HDD so not only are they easy and quick to use but they"re incredibly flexible as well.
One instance in which you would probably need to use a docking station is when you want to hook up a newer laptop to an older printer. Printers of even the recent past routinely have serial port connectors, something you won"t likely find on the latest laptop. In this case, you can certainly buy an adapter, but you can also use a docking station, which has serial port connectors as well.
So if you"re looking for speed and simplicity of use and you"re not worried about providing a case around the hard drive to protect it and make transportation easy then you might consider a Hard Drive Docking Station.
