Which Docking Station!

[Lord Alibaski]

I can't make my mind up on which docking station to choose from.

I can only see 2 on OC the Akasa & Icy Box ones.

The Akasa is £28.99 the Icy Box is £37.99 but does include USB3 tranfer speed, something I'm not really bothered about.

I have seen several others around

Freecom Hard Drive Dock Pro This one also offers IDE/SATA attachment and can be purchased for £34, this doesn't include the molex or ide ribbon which you need.

Another make I have noticed is from Startech, which I see Overclockers have just started to sell their products. The StarTech USB to SATA IDE Hard Drive Docking Station comes with all accessories including the molex connector & ide ribbon and can be purchased for around £38.

I know we all still have molex to molex and the odd ide ribbon and also a few ide drives about the house but some might have binned the ribbons so paying an extra £9 on top for the bonus feature of being able to use an ide drive could be worth it over the £28 for the Akasa.

Anyone had any experience with any of these items above and which one would you choose if not?

I wouldn't mind overclockers selling this one if the product is reliable.

 

[rpstewart]

I've been using the Akasa one for a while. It's a simple piece of kit which does the job well and with no fuss. I don't have any IDE drives that I need any more so SATA only suits me fine.

 

[Lord Alibaski]

I've still got a few ide drives left trying to get rid of them is harder than I thought I have actually give a few away but the cost of this has been on me.

I think in the long the ones for ide drives will be a waste so you could be right on just keeping it simple and buy the akasa.

Thanks for the advise.

 

[artus]

I have had the Akasa for nearly a year never had a problem with it, using it on esata rather than usb was a good buy