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 Rocketfish has themselves a new customer. December 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
WIth my new, unformatted Maxtor 200GB drive I plugged in the one IDE cable and one power supply connector, used the four screws to secure the HD to the chassis and the lid to the enclosure. Plugged in the power supply, which is actually pretty tight so I don't know about power supply issues because I have to pull firmly to get that plug out. With the included USB cord I plugged it up to my laptop. XP downloaded a driver and I was up in... 1 minute? 2 minutes? No clicks, just a balloon that said my hardware was ready for use.
From there a quick format with the Windows program diskmgmt.msc (on the "run" command line), scrolled to the bottom to the unformatted drive, chose NTSC and named the drive. I was slapping pictures, music, videos and feeling good as this was a DIY project that couldn't be any simpler! Valuplanet was my seller, open box purchase. I love it and will buy another one as soon as I can figure out if it can take a 500GB drive:) I even use it with my new LG flat panel HD tv (32LG70) to slideshow my pics and play my music!
Oh yeah, it has a blue led to show when its on. It flashes when the drive is at work and it also includes screws, wrench, stand, manual, and driver CD should you need it. The LED is also a one-touch copy button. I guess it copies your HD in its entirety but I haven't tried it:)
Overall, as I said, Rocketfish is a brand I'm going to try as I just got my Rocketfish HDMI cable to use with my LG 1080p TV:) All aluminum with a red trim, it matches my TV! LOL!
 Didn't get product November 29, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm sure it would've been wonderful it they'd shipped it but they were out of stock.
Nice Hard Drive Enclosure That Works Very Well October 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this USB hard drive enclosure as an easy and fast way to transfer lots of files from my old computer to my new one.
The process is extremely simple: I pulled the drive out of my old machine; put the drive into the Rocketfish drive tray (two cables and 4 screws to hold the drive firmly in place); put the tray/drive assembly into the enclosure and screwed the lid down.
That's it.
The drive was immediately recognized as "Local Disk (G:)" on my Windows Vista System. (It also recognized "SYSTEM_SAV(H:)" which I assume is the boot volume on the drive.)
The enclosure is attractive and well-made, consisting of a red,finned, aluminum chassis with glossy black side panels. There is a small stand that permits the enclosure to sit on its side, and it is very stable in this configuration. The system does not seem to get more than slightly warm.
I am glad I bought this thing-- it made transferring 10,000 photos as easy at it possibly could have been.
Great Design. Great Price. July 19, 2008
I bought it from "nansbooksnmore" as open box item.Great Design - anodized aluminum look real cool and it dissipates heat very well.
Excellent price, excellent job. April 27, 2008
When my Maxtor drive broke it was once again due to the connections and not the drive itself. I took the drive out plugged it into a this enclosure and got all the information safe and sound. The computer pros were suggesting data recovery costing over a thousand dollars!!! Of all my external hard drive problems the problems as always been a bad firewire connection or something like that. The drives have always been okay so give this a try before taking any super expensive measures.
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