Lindy's Data Dock hot swaps all kinds of junk

Do you ever find yourself staring down at your drive bays, watching as the lazy, single purpose hard drive does its work and think, "Man, I wish I could swap that thing out for a USB hub when it's done spinning."? Well, the clever folks at Lindy have answered your prayers by creating the USB 2.0 Data Dock. The premise is simple: the Dock installs into your standard, 3.5-inch bay and provides two open "slots" which you can use for either a 2.5-inch swappable drive enclosure, a four port USB hub, or a multi-format card reader -- all of which are provided. Additionally, once the modules are swapped out, they can be plugged directly into another system (or the same system) via a typical USB connection. Available now for £49.99 (about $101).

[Via SlashGear]

[Matt @ Aug 25th 2007 12:25PM]

Woah! Someone needs to stop using MS Paint for resizing images.

[Jagannath A @ Aug 25th 2007 12:53PM]

that 'someone' is at slashgear.com... the images are normal in the lindy.com website

[strider_mt2k @ Aug 25th 2007 12:33PM]

Stomp out jaggies in our time.

Aside from that the concept seems pretty cool.

[Daniel Foster @ Aug 25th 2007 12:50PM]

I've been hot swapping my junk for a long time now.

[SnowB @ Aug 25th 2007 12:55PM]

LMFAO

[Engine 0 @ Aug 25th 2007 1:12PM]

Kingwin has a similar product for 2.5" drive slots for years now. Works well, and cheaper too!
http://www.kingwin.com/product_pages/kf25.asp

[Jeff @ Aug 25th 2007 5:33PM]

The true wonder of this is that it looks *exactly the same* as the KF-25, which I've been using for almost a year now. Down to the obscenely bright blue lights indicating that a slot is occupied (because once you're blinded by them you can't look anymore to see that the slot is obviously occupied). Oh Kingwin, selling your bastard unpopular children to fools who know how to market things. At least the Kingwin version only cost $30.

[tso @ Aug 25th 2007 1:13PM]

kinda interesting that the hardrive use standard 2.5" drives, and do not come with one. so you can upgrade as you go, and with relative ease.

[johnzilla @ Aug 25th 2007 7:36PM]

Hmmm...never saw these before. Nifty idea.

[bombastinator @ Aug 26th 2007 6:19AM]

so it's kinda like one of the old "black" apple laptops then, except its a desktop. If the lesson from them holds, it means if you have a desktop, you likely have enough casefront realestate to put in hard drives, and usb ports, and data readers that you can use all at once, for less money.

[IsLNdbOi @ Aug 27th 2007 5:39PM]

Like others said, Kingwin has had this out for a couple of years. I've had mine for at least two years. They have a black and silver version.