The SATA USB docking bay is actually an awesome concept. It is, as the name implies, a dock for SATA drives that allows you to access them through USB. Its great if you have an old motherboard that does not support SATA, but want an easy way to store lots of data without opening up your case and giving yourself a hernia removing IDE cables. It is great too if you need extra storage space but don’t want to blow a wad of dollars on an external HDD. It is a pretty sweet looking dock, the trouble is hard disk drives look pretty damned ugly, and there is no way around the fact that having a hard disk drive sitting in a dock on your desk is going to look just a little bit silly.

Not everyone needs a SATA USB dock, but if you like external HDDs, then this could be just the thing. I do have to wonder how well non-tech types are going to be able to deal with these. There are quite a few that are scared off by the site of exposed electronics. It may appeal to IT types that do a lot of system migration. Yes, there are cables that do the same thing, but it is nice to have something that is portable and that you can just slot an HDD into. This thing can save valuable seconds.

At 1.5kg of weight (it is weighted so that it can remain stable with a HDD in place) shipping on these babies is not cheap, but the device itself is very reasonably priced at $46.79.

Source: Geek Stuff 4 U, Slippery Brick, Everything USB, UberGizmo

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