I use the Weibe tech combo dock for my IDE drives and now buy only SATA drives. For those I have a slide in SATA drive bay, no tray just slide the drive in and latch. I plan on buying one for my 3.5” drive case which has FW800/400, eSATA, USB2.0 interfaces. I got the quad interface drive case at Max Digital now if I could find a dual bay quad interface drive case I could put the trays in that would work really well. I also use those Wiebe tech boxes for the drives, Just Awesome! Now all of my drives are organized and protected.

Cheers
Robert C. Fisher

Posted by RC Fisher  on  09/06  at  01:26 PM

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Hello there,

Firstly, I’d like to say that I do really appreciate your contribution to the art of digital filmmaking. Thanks you for all the info that you keep feeding us.

Just to add something to the current headache that we all face in backing up our footage, here’s a link to a recent Larry Jordan’ article on hard drive back up.

http://www.larryjordan.biz/articles/lj_hard_disk_warning.html

Please comment.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  09/17  at  03:52 AM

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I’ve used this kind of dock too (Not wiebetech’s but some other noname). But even if convenient, it goes get cumbersome making and taking out all those connections especially if one is ‘browsing’ many drives to find a folder.

On a trip to London two weeks back, I bought a HDD docking station like the one here…
http://www.geekstuff4u.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=630

There’s even one with Firewire and eSATA, but mine is just USB. At Maplin it cost me pounds 30 so its affordable.

And a great way to ‘browse; hard disks like they were floppies or CDs. I plan to drive the drive sleeves as well.

Neil Sadwelkar.

Posted by Neil Sadwelkar  on  09/26  at  10:33 PM

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My issue with those types of drive bay thinggys is that it’s way too easy to remove a drive without unmounting it. My drive bay minus the tray is theres a light letting you know the drive is still on so you, Me, make sure it’s unmounted then pop open the door and pull out the drive. I totally cleaned up my big pile of drive trays and stuff now I put the drives away in the cute littl wiebtech boxes after I’m done with them. I can fit a ton of them on a tiny shelf I have in my storage closet. I used up all 10 of the boxes I bought and now I need more!

Cheers
robert C. Fisher

Posted by RC Fisher  on  09/26  at  10:52 PM

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No no that cannot happen.

If you see the pictures of the dock I sent you see that the drive sits vertically on its own weight. And there’s a lock and a release button so it won’t come off on its own.

There’s also a blue LED showing the drive is connected, and a red access LED. And there’s a power switch so you can safely power off and on when swapping drives.

Its really more convenient than a connecting type of dock. I have both. But of course, the one I mention only works with SATA.

Posted by Neil Sadwelkar  on  09/28  at  02:03 AM

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I prefer to use a single external enclosure with my choice of connections (eSATA, FW800/400. USB2.0) so I can physically mount my bare drive with the adapter electronics.  The weibetech solution feels like a disaster waiting to happen.  It belongs on someone’s desk at home, not on set.

Posted by Michael Morlan  on  03/21  at  06:43 PM

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