Abstract: The Thermaltake BlacX is a neat little USB-based hard drive docking station that fills a gap left vacant by removable hard drive racks and. The Thermaltake BlacX (N0028USU) supports USB2.0 data transfer speeds up to 480Mbpos, requires no drivers, and is Windows Vista and Apple Mac. Through a series of powering on and off both PC and dock I get the drive back but it is unformatted. Hit 'format'. Thermaltake BlacX Duet 5G ST0022U ABS Plastic 2.5' & 3.5' Black USB 3.0 HDD Docking Station HGST Deskstar NAS. Supposedly it works w/Hitachi driver. At least one person. I have a USB 2.0 BlacX docking station and I definitely could use the extra speed USB 3.0 offers. I would highly recommend picking up current drivers and firmware for both the USB3 card(they're all NEC inside) and the USB3 dock(Jmicron inside) from station drivers as the dock and USB3 card both have.

Installation of the Thermaltake BlacX HDD docking station is highly straightforward; the hard drive is simply slid into the top opening of the BlacX with the SATA and power connectors facing down. Little effort is needed to connect the hard drive to the BlacX. The depth of the opening is about 1 ½ feet, or 3 cm, which is more than sufficient to hold the hard drive snugly. At this point, the BlacX will be plugged to a power source and to a computer, using either the USB 2.0 or eSATA connectors. If the USB 2.0 connector is used, the BlacX will be recognized as a 'USB Mass Storage Device', and the required drivers will be automatically installed by the operating sytem. The drivers for Windows XP and Vista (32 bit and 64 bit) are available for download on Thermaltake USA: Link: If the eSATA connector is used, the installed hard drive will be recognized as a normal disk drive, and the required AHCI drivers will be installed, which will then require a reboot of the operating system. If the installed hard drive was not previously formatted, which is the case of a newly purchased hard drive, it will need a format through Windows' Disk Management. Download Suara Sirine Toa more.

The latter can be accessed by running 'diskmgmt.msc'. Thermaltake has written a quick tutorial on how to achieve a format: Link: Once the BlacX is powered on, the status LED will glow blue. The light is not bright enough to blind you, but it is bright enough to be seen at a distance. When the hard drive is being accessed, an additional LED will shine red, indicating hard drive activity. Vdo Dayton Ms 4150 Software Engineer. These activity LED are highly welcomed, even though hard drive activity can be easily heard by the hard drive’s seek noise.