Mike Rivers wrote:

You got me interested in that Wiebetech thing for a few minutes, but
like with most out-of-the-mainstream computer stuff, I could only find
on-line sources for it. I wanna see it at a store and there's no place
around here who has it. I can get plenty of Firewire external drives
in cases, but the concept of a caseless external drive seems too
strange for people who work in what passes for computer stores now.
(we don't have Fry's here)

I bought mine from Smalldog Electronics, up in VT. Given the miniscule
size of that part of the country, how hard could it be to road trip? g

One heads-up: it is important to make sure one is aligning the dock's
connector accurately with that of the drive. One can misalign that and
make a mess of something, oh, say, like pushing a drive's pin back into
the connector shell... In which case I highly recommend a roach clip...
errr... a hemostat, yeah, that's the ticket, to pull the pin back out
where it ought to be, and then carefully reconnect the drive.

The FW Drivedock is really quite handy. I'm sold on the concept, now
that I've the training wheels stage.

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