{"id":381,"date":"2010-10-28T15:23:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T20:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/10\/28\/101028_voyager\/"},"modified":"2022-03-18T15:28:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T20:28:08","slug":"101028_voyager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/10\/28\/101028_voyager\/","title":{"rendered":"New Toy: Voyager Hard Drive Dock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently filled up a 1TB internal hard drive with Time Machine backups. I ordered a 2TB drive to take its place, and put the full, bare drive in a drawer for safekeeping.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of months later, I needed to access some of the data on the old drive, so I pulled out a USB &#8220;universal drive adapter&#8221; and tried without success to connect it to my Mac Pro. I never figured out the issue, but I also didn&#8217;t spend a lot of time on it since the situation wasn&#8217;t critical. But it made me think that there had to be a better way to access old hard drives.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/voyager.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of the Voyager with a mounted 3.5 inch drive\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"10\">Enter the <a href=\"http:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/NewerTech\/Voyager\/Hard_Drive_Dock\">Voyager family of hard drive docks<\/a>, from Newer Technology. These little units sit on your desk, looking like stubby toasters, and hook up to your computer via a wide array of connectors (including USB 2, FireWire 400\/800, and eSATA). They accommodate both 2.5&#8243; and 3.5&#8243; bare SATA hard drives in their &#8220;toast&#8221; slots, in capacities up to 2TB.<\/p>\n<p>Mine just arrived this afternoon and I quickly unpacked it, and connected it to my Mac via FireWire 800. (The unit comes with all the connector cables, which is pretty cool in and of itself.) I grabbed the aforementioned 3.5&#8243; drive and stuck it in the slot, hit the power switch on the dock, and in less than a minute, the drive appeared on my desktop as a typical FireWire volume, and was accessible just like any external drive.<\/p>\n<p>The unit is plug-and-play (on my Mac, anyway) and the drives are hot-swappable.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great and relatively inexpensive solution for the problem of what to do with full back-up hard drives. Combining a Voyager dock with <a href=\"http:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/item\/Newer%20Technology\/HDSTORA35\/\">these stackable anti-static storage cases<\/a> makes accessing back-up data easier than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently filled up a 1TB internal hard drive with Time Machine backups. I ordered a 2TB drive to take its place, and put the full, bare drive in a drawer for safekeeping. A couple of months later, I needed to access some of the data on the old drive, so I pulled out a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/10\/28\/101028_voyager\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Toy: Voyager Hard Drive Dock<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9084,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/9084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}