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Reddit mentions of Thermaltake BlacX Duet 2.5”/3.5” SATA I/II/III USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure Docking Station ST0014U-D
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We found 3 Reddit mentions of Thermaltake BlacX Duet 2.5”/3.5” SATA I/II/III USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure Docking Station ST0014U-D. Here are the top ones.
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USB 3.0 SuperSpeed interface enables users to transfer data up to 5.0 Gbps, 10 times faster than USB2.0Supports 2.5"/3.5" SATA I/II/III technology Hard drives with Windows and Mac OS supportedHot swap capability for rapid accessPlug & play Installation (No software)2 Year Warranty
Specs:
| Color | Black |
| Height | 2.72 Inches |
| Length | 5.55 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Size | Dual Bay |
| Weight | 1.07 Pounds |
| Width | 4.76 Inches |
Consider purchasing an external drive and do a back up NOW. They are relatively inexpensive, and space keeps getting cheaper so it is likely you can store all your legacy data in a backup on a single drive (or more than one backup on more than one drive) so the data is safe. SATA to USB is still very much alive. I recommended this and this today to someone else on reddit. This fixes the data part of this discussion, I hope.
As far as Win 10 goes, when operating on legacy and lower end equipment, Win 10 does a pretty good job. It does not follow the typical microsoft trajectory of BLOAT until the machine can actually handle it. I have found that Win 10 will sort of scale back on lower end equipment and works rather well. Further, with the Internet, drivers that are not recognized by windows as appropriate (and fully functional) should be easy to find. To this end, though, I would suggest not relying on legacy equipment forevermore; have an upgrade or replacement plan in mind.
I guess I don't truly understand what info you are looking for. Any feedback to guide the discussion?
You can use something like this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01J4XNLN6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 ... make sure you have USB 3 on the new computer, there is a USB 2 option as well.
That said, I would recommend uploading the pictures to something like google photos (private account) so that they're "safer" than just sitting on your drive.
The harddrive has to have power to it to spin up and make the data accessible.
Your cheapest option depends on how computer literate you are. I would use a drive dock to connect the drive to your computer. If the drive is discoverable, you can just copy paste the photos to your laptop. If it's not, it will require a little extra work. In that case, I would then use a program like photorec to retrieve the photos/docs.
If you connect the drive, in the drive dock, to your pc and it boots up, it should be accessible like a USB drive.
This is the drive dock that I use.
I run photorec from a Linux distro called Kali. Photorec also has an easy to use Windows version. You can find Photorec here.
I hope this helps.