By Andrew Liszewski
While it clearly has aspirations of being just another novelty USB peripheral, this slipper-themed hard drive dock looks quite useful, particularly if you’re the type who uses a stack of old hard drives like they were flash drives. Instead of requiring you to open a housing and permanently installing a drive inside, this dock allows them to easily slide in and out. As long as they’re 2.5 or 3.5-inch SATA drives that is. Larger drives or IDE models might put up a real fight.
It’s USB 3.0 compatible for speedy file transfers, and as you can see the faux red toes sticking out of one end actually serve as an ejection lever, making it easy to remove the drive. And it’s hot swappable so you can rip out a drive and slap in a new one without having to worry about disconnecting the dock from your PC. $45 from USB.Brando.com.
[ Hornettek Slipper USB 3.0 SATA HDD Dock ] VIA [ The Red Ferret Journal ]
