By Philip Churchill on May 30th, 2008
Hard Drive Dock
The Home Server Show Blog has posted details on a Sata HDD Multi-Function Dock and as Dave writes it makes a great hard drive dock.
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$79 including shipping.
I like it. Sure you can buy a usb hard drive dock for less … or even an external case. Point is though … who wants a separate usb hub and a seaprate card reader and a separate usb dock cluttering their desktop? So while I could buy all of this separately for less .. this is convenient and cool … has esata and can share desktop space with my treo cradle and tomtom go720 dock better than 3 separate devices…
Let’s get this straight, instead of having separate devices, that connect to your data, now you got all your eggs into one basket for the sum of $80 dollars. How is that reasonable for a Taiwan circuit board, that was assembled in mainland China’s ($0.17 an hour rate)?
Just another thing to take up space, bring along if you travel rather than including all these with the PC you had already paid for.
So by all means, buy more that doesn’t do anything more than what you already got. How is that for consumer purchasing?
Even the OLPC with windows XP as a whole complete computer is reported to be sold for $75 dollars!
Let’s ask millions of young adults, do you want to pay $80 dollars for a black box that only allows you to connect your data devices to a computer?
Or would they actually want to purchase the $75 dollar computer instead, that already has the important methods to connect with your external data? And best of all, save $5 dollars for doing so…
Only in America would someone buy a $80 dollar connect me device that isn’t even wireless…