Looking more at the enclosure, we can see that this is a no thrills affair and this is not necessarily a bad thing. The dock has a particular function to do and it’s not going to beat about the bush at doing it. The main portion of the body is made out of plastic with a brushed metal finish to the top.
Focussing on the business side of the dock, the obvious part is where hard drives dock in. The cover above the SATA connections covers all but where a 2.5″ drives slides through and folds down automatically when a 3.5″ drive is inserted. To the right of the dust cover is a quick release button, which when pressed, pushes the installed drive up and off of the SATA connections.
To the front of the drive there is a power button and to the right the SuperSpeed branding which lights up with disk activity.
On the back of dock we find the DC jack and USB3.0 data connections.
Turning the dock over, reveals no hidden surprises, but what we do find is a sticker that shows the docks specifications, including its weight, interface and drive compatibility.
it’s a POS. It randomly hibernates during a file transfer or doesn’t work at all in 2 of my PCs. The f/w upgrade program that I manged to get for this POS doesn’t work either…………meaning the program to upgrade the f/w doesn’t work. For the 3rd time, contacting Thrmaltake, all their RMA links don’t work either, both in FF & in IE. Contacting them a 4th time about this, resulted in them not even acknowledging my email, so I’m going to see how far I can throw this POS from my roof!