True Colors
Baseband Member
- Messages
- 34
I am possibly interested in purchasing a docking station. Could someone please enlighten me on a few things......
First of all, do the new docking stations support the Sata drives and also the old non-Sata products(i.e., typical hard drives on old PC's)?
Next....... are docking stations a simply "plug and play" type of product? That is, if I want to put an image on a drive is it a simple matter of putting a hard drive in the docking station, then connecting the docking station to a PC, and then transferring the content onto the drive? Can you simply "drag and drop" content onto a hard drive mounted on a docking station the same way that you would with an external hard drive?
When you use a docking station does your PC simply assign a drive letter to the mounted hard drives the same way that it assigns a drive letter to a USB flash drive or any other external hard drive?
How complicated is it to use a docking station to do a fresh install of Windows XP?
Can you hot swap hard drives in a docking station?
Any particular brand(s) that you recommend?
Thanks!!
TC
First of all, do the new docking stations support the Sata drives and also the old non-Sata products(i.e., typical hard drives on old PC's)?
Next....... are docking stations a simply "plug and play" type of product? That is, if I want to put an image on a drive is it a simple matter of putting a hard drive in the docking station, then connecting the docking station to a PC, and then transferring the content onto the drive? Can you simply "drag and drop" content onto a hard drive mounted on a docking station the same way that you would with an external hard drive?
When you use a docking station does your PC simply assign a drive letter to the mounted hard drives the same way that it assigns a drive letter to a USB flash drive or any other external hard drive?
How complicated is it to use a docking station to do a fresh install of Windows XP?
Can you hot swap hard drives in a docking station?
Any particular brand(s) that you recommend?
Thanks!!
TC