FW400/FW800/eSATA/USB2.0 Cradle
This hard drive cradle is one of the most versatile we have, in terms of the number of connections it offers from the computer to the disk cradle. [please note the current cradle is white, not black as shown]
Accepting any 2.5" or 3.5" SATA hard drive, the cradle can connect to most computers (Apple, Windows, Linux) via the USB2.0, eSATA, FireWire 400 and FireWire 800 interfaces. FireWire 400 and 800 are alternatively called IEEE1394a and IEEE1394b.
This versatile hard drive cradle is well built with a small footprint, and the unit itself is well weighted, allowing for one handed insertion and removal of the disk drive.
Far more convenient that hard drive cases for accessing data on various disk drives, the hard drive cradles offer a simple, efficient method of reading a number of disk drives.
The drive cradle can also be used to boot a computer under a variety of operating systems, and because it is so easy to swap the disks in an out of the cradle, various disks could be used for various purposes. Backing up your computer - why stop at one backup? Backup onto two or more disks and rotate the backup. Or, some customers use a boot disk for surfing the web, and boot up using another disk once they have finished surfing. So no threat of being hacked, or, if the 'web' disk gets a virus, it wont affect anything but the 'web' disk.
The possibilities that the cradles off are endless. Please have a look at the other disk cradles in our range.
We have some with hubs, card readers, dual bay units and more.
The hard drive cradles work with all current operating systems. Windows 98 is not supported, nor is Mac OS8.6.
IDE/ATA hard drives are not supported, nor are any cradles available for these older style disks.
These is no capacity limit to the size of the hard drive that can be uses with this cradle.