I've looked at many hard drive docks in my time, and most are pretty much the same, just a place to stick your hard drive to transfer files back and forth. Cirago has sent me over their new HDD dock that adds a bit more features to the regular plain dock, theirs has a built-in card reader and two additional USB ports as well. The additional features do make the dock more useful than the plain HDD docks that we're accustomed to, with this dock you won't need a card reader and USB hub because it's all right there for you. Not a bad idea overall, but let's see how it performs when I compare it to my Thermaltake BlacX Duet HDD dock. Read on...

Product Name: Cirago USB Hard Drive Dock with Card Reader CDD1000

Author: Kristofer Brozio

Sponsor: Cirago

Tech Specs,Features or the Basic Info:

Cirago USB Hard Drive Dock with Card Reader CDD1000

Features:

* High Speed USB 2.0 Backwards compatible with 1.1

* Higher Performance Transfers up 480 Mbps

* Plug and Play

* USB hub function with 2 USB 2.0 ports

* Supports 2.5” and 3.5” SATA I/II hard drives

* Supports PC (Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7), MAC (MAC OS 10.4.8 or above) and Linux

* Active LED Power Indicator

* One-touch backup button activates included PCClone EX Lite back-up software

Description/Specs:

Interface 1x USB 2.0 (device)

2x USB 2.0 (hub)

1x SATA I/II 2.5” or 3.5”

Memory Card Support: SD/MMC, MemoryStick/MemoryStick Pro,CompactFlash, XD

Power: 5V, AC/DC adapter included

Warranty: 1 year

Dimension: 6.5 x 4.5 x 4’’

Price: $35.99 (at Amazon at time of review)