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Dock OWC Drive Dock with two slots for drives aimed at Mac users

The company Other World Computing (OWC) announced the expansion of a family of computer peripherals docking station OWC Drive Dock. The device is a dock for drives that are designed for two drives size 2.5 “or 3.5” SATA drives.

Device in aluminum housing makes it easy to operate with hard drives. OWC Drive Dock aimed at Mac users and supports connecting both Thunderbolt 2 and USB 3.0. In the first case, the reading speed reaches up to 522 MB/s, write speed — 477 MB/s When connected via USB 3.0 the values of these indicators equal to 427 and 347 MB/s, respectively.

“The dock will give you the unlimited freedom; use any SATA drive is the fastest SSD today and mnogoserijnyj Winchester to cheap models with SATA-I and SATA-II. Open design with vertical loading and support hot-swapping allows you to connect any SSD or hard drive with a SATA interface. Compact form factor and lightweight design makes the dock the most convenient portable storage for your Mac”.

The presence of two ports Thunderbolt 2 allows you to turn Doc into a chain of compatible devices. Thanks to its compact size docking OWC Drive Dock requires a minimum of physical working space. Among other advantages of the solution the manufacturer calls a built-in power supply.

OWC has evaluated the docking station Drive Dock 248 dollars. The kit includes a Thunderbolt cable length 1 m cable and USB 3.0 cable length of 0.6 m.

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