I could see this as a useful tool for techs who support a lot of standardized installations. It would make cloning the master drive a snap and you could do many in one 8-hour shift. Is Hong Kong the only source?

I bought one of these after seeing the review. IT's a great buy for $90 and the postage from Hong Kong was only $3 (yes three) - arrived in about a week.

It works really well with only one problem. As a wireless N adapter it won't connect to my dlink router - doesn't see the router at all, but sees most other stuff in the area (inluding N). This is a minor point though as that's not what I bought it for. I use it now to backup my NAS drives - simply swap in and out and leave it to do it's thing.

Oh and I nearly forgot - got a loverly bag with it too!

Recommended!

I doubt it somehow.

There's a lot of things I would need to connect to it that it couldn't handle.

SCSI? Fair enough, it's old. But what about IDE? I have tonnes of IDE drives

There isn't even a CompactFlash slot!

Missing those two alone would make it pointless for me to buy one, not to mention there are many more devices not supported.

The perfect Valentine’s Day gift! 4 me that is lol. But how much does it cost?

I use Hotswap! on esata drives in ahci mode. It creates an icon in the taskbar for easy drive removal.

http://mt-naka.com/hotswap/index_enu.htm

SATA should be hotplug... you should be able to remove the drive from Windows and the worst you'd have to do is cycle the power for the dock.

Aren't eSATA drives hot swappable when ACHI is enabled in the motherboard BIOS?