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It's quite popular nowadays for consumers and enthusiasts
alike to own at least one or two external hard drives and hot swap them for
data logistic purposes. Unfortunately, most of these devices are limited to
either eSATA, USB or Firewire on the external interface. These products
certainly make mass data storage dvices more portable and accessible, but its
nature makes it only a temporary means of physical storage (Placing it on
your desk and using it in a permanent fashion doesn't really cut it). For
those users that want the convenience of an external drive and performance of
an internal drive, but without the fixed format of an internal drive, an
internal hot swapping bay may be a viable solution -- making it extremely
convenient to swap hard drives, yet taken into a semi-permanent space. Let's
say you have five people who wants to use a single computer, but does not
want to mess around with the data on one hard drive, and penta-booting is not
an appropriate way of solving this problem. Solution: Have five hard drive,
one for each user, and let each user plug in their own hard drive for their
own usage session. That may not be everyone's case, but hey -- we're just
giving a possible scenario. Today, we will be taking a look at the iStarUSA
T5F-SS, an internal SATA hard drive hot swap bay. I have to admit I never
heard of iStarUSA before writing this review, but they do seem to be a long
standing maker of OEM and ODM products.
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