Comments on: Sharkoon Quickport Pro – My cool backup solution for the small pocket

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:43:14 +0000

Hi, I have been using a seagate barracuda7200rpm and it flys. You do need to be super careful when handling any harddrives and in this case more so as the drives are normally housed inside the computer which offers more protection than letting be exposed on your desktop :-)

By: Johannes

Johannes — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:16:37 +0000

My backup currently runs with two samsung 1tb hardrives. special care has to be taken if you transport hardrives because they don’t accept much vibration or movements without taking damage. That’s why i use two harddrives for backup: if one drops, the other still lives ;-)

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:11:07 +0000

I recently bought the Sharkoon Quickport Pro. I had more or less the same idea as you, plus I wanted an easy way to mount a sata HDD my friends might bring to me for data transfer. Along with the Quickport I bought a Seagate 1 TB. But when I mounted the drive in Quickport, all I could hear were the heads of the drive “clicking”. So, either the drive was DOA or Quickport killed it. Cen you verify that Quickport supports 1 TB drives? I know it’s in working order, since I was able to mount a Maxtor 300GB without problems.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:22:28 +0000

Thanks for the article. I have a sea of external drives and whiched to the sata docking station way back in October.. There is a new version out that will hold 2 sata drives at once that I just brought. Should be easy to dupe the first drive to the second for the ultimate of backups..