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Dec 17, 2016
ExpressCard shaped USB2 hub.
This card claims to use an NEC chip that is an actual USB2 host (EHCI) device, but in actuality, it is merely a hub that attached to the USB2 pins in the ExpressCard socket. Unhappily, it is not what I was trying to buy; I need an EHCI host not another hub.
It fits nicely in the socket and allows enough of a grip on the big plastic part that one can, with some care, avoid gratuitous plug/unplug cycles when connecting or disconnecting devices. If you need, for some reason, more USB2 ports on a system with an ExpressCard slot, it seems to fill that role, by providing a hub with four downstream ports on the EC USB2 pins.
It feels reasonably sturdy, but since it is exactly not what I needed, I did not test heavily.
Feb 10, 2019
Fast PATA drive; good for ThinkPads, hard to fit to a Toshiba (connector clearance)
2 of 2 found this helpful So far it looks pretty good. Seems solidly built, fits the bay properly.
Copied existing data from a 7200RPM mag disc to the 128GB model of this SSD and it went well. No glitches copying the data and able to boot everything (DOS, Linux, OS/2, Windows) all fine.
It has seen about a month of light use (I put it in an older system that only sees occasional use), and no problems yet. I will update if I start to see problems.
Performance is better than the old PATA HDD -- not earthshaking, but an observable improvement. Comparing to a 5400RPM or slower drive would likely show more improvement.
Physically it seems okay for the IBM ThinkPad connector, but I wanted to upgrade a Toshiba Tecra M3 first. It does not fit the Toshiba connector as well as I would have liked: The top cover gets just a little too close to the connector pins for Toshiba's contrivance. If it just offered a little more room (maybe 2mm?) to the sides of the connector, it would be great.
Mine was marked with the wrong size on the label, but the drive itself identifies as the 128GB model I had ordered when queried.
Dec 17, 2016
Good way to put four 2.5 inch ('laptop style') SATA HDD/SSD into a single 5.25" bay
This works well and supports everything I have thrown at it, from SATA 1 to SATA 3 drives -- hard discs and SSDs. The fans move enough air to keep the drives reasonably cool, and are not overly loud.
I have one of these with a few years runtime on it and the fans still run well and do not make a lot of noise. I have some other similar devices where the fans needed to be replaced within months.
It would have been nice if they offered SATA style power connection, and I would have felt better if they had two power connectors, as some drives (particularly large SSDs) can draw power in strange patterns.
EBay's rating system asks whether I think this is a good value, but it varies too much. At maybe $80 or less, I think so. Much above that and I start to question whether anything of this form is a 'good value' until you reach professional stuff and things that provide their own hardware array support and so on.