Dan Benjamin raves about the NewerTech Voyager Q in his latest review, and that’s enough for me to want one. Especially since I’ve had to rebuild my computer three or four times in the last three months due to data problems. Ugh.
It’s a “dock” for your drives… internal drives are almost always cheaper than external drives and their enclosures. It supports USB2, eSATA, FireWire 800, and FireWire 400, so you can be sure that it’ll work for a long time as newer hardware and newer interfaces come down the pike in the future.
It doesn’t support IDE, instead supporting only SATA I and II drives, and while that’s bothersome for some, for the most part, IDE drives are gone, and SATA drives are here to stay. The cool thing is that it supports 3.5″ drives and 2.5″ drives and it’s hot swappable.
What a great tool for my backup needs
You can pick one up at OWC for $99.
Pick one up, then grab a few 1TB hard drives, so you have plenty of storage sitting around:
Samsung SpinPoint 1TB 3.5″ drive for $110.
Seagate 1TB 3.5″ OEM drive for $96.
Hitachi 1TB 3.5″ OEM drive for $88.
Or choose from a few others.
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OWC ilene
Mar 16
Hi,
Glad to see you like the Voyager Q so much. Please let us know when you get one and how you love it. Please remember the “small print” though: “*Use of eSATA interface requires system reboot in order to recognize hard drive.”
OWC ilene
Misha
Mar 17
This rocks because it looks cooler than all other drive docks out there and because it has FireWire 800.
This does not rock because it costs twice what other drive docks cost.
You can get docks with FireWire 400 for around $60, and then of course there are even cheaper ones with just USB2 or USB2/eSATA, like this one:
http://www.stuffgeekswant.com/2008/04/blacx-external-hard-drive-docking-station-the-sexy-way-to-swap-drives/
Still, points for the FW800… a must for newer Macs!
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