OWC announces USB 3.1 Gen 1 hot swap Drive Dock

[HEXUS]

You can connect two 2.5 or 3.5-inch SATA drives at once, with read/write speeds of over 400MB/s.

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[Faiakes]

Ermmm, StarTech has had one out for almost a year now.

[jimborae]

And being OWC will probably cost a fortune, albeit being well made.

[gagaga]

"USB 3.1 gen 1"

So USB 3.0 then?

[Valantar]

"USB 3.1 gen 1"

So USB 3.0 then?

Yep. I don't know if they had a product like this in their lineup before - if they did, whatever's changed here is probably 90% cosmetic.


From skimming the article first, I thought it had USB-C for some reason. Until I saw the back of the thing, and thought "wait ... what?" This is a product that's been on the market in nearly identical versions for years already. Outside of an aluminium casing, what's new? Why is this newsworthy? If it had USB-C, could draw 12V from that to power 3,5" drives, and could use external power and a C-A cable for legacy PCs, that would be something. This is just boring.