They're not being sold as such, and according to the chain store we got ours
from, everyone is getting them along with a few bare drives. It's very
convenient to be able to do rotating backups with TB drives and not have to
mess with wall warts and various form factors (even a single vendor will change
case designs) that also double+ the physical volume required for physical
storage. It's also nice to have an interface with enough power to spin up a
large drive, in case you were thinking USB-powered case.

It seems that there is a definite need... "Drive skins".... ;)

Even something adhesive for the board side would probably be welcomed by techs
who pop them in and out and stack them on the shelf, waiting for the next
customer. I've seen some shops that _definitely_ need such.

-Skip


On 3/28/2010 8:35 PM, Jake Anderson wrote:
> Dr Skip wrote:
> My understanding is that the bare drive docks are for tech's working on 
> drives/pc's who should be aware of static and its precautions.
> 
> If you want to use the drives for storing data put them in an external 
> case of some kind.
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