Unboxing Hornettek Slipper

HornetTek Slipper U3 is a USB 3 vertical docking station for 2.5″ and 3.5″ SATA hard drive. Simple, lightweight and beautiful design.

Hornettek Slipper accessories
Hornettek Slipper charger adapter
Hornettek Slipper connected USB cable
Hornettek Slipper side view
Hornettek Slipper box side view
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Hornettek Slipper docking bay
Hornettek Slipper connected to Playon! HD
Hornettek Slipper in the box
Hornettek Slipper inside the box
Hornettek Slipper USB 3 cable

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Product Specifications

  • Slipper design, open space for 3.5”/2.5” HDD connection
  • Smart ejection jack to help install and remove HDD easily
  • Universal fitting for 2.5”/3.5” SATA HDD/SSD
  • One Touch Backup software included
  • Maximum Transfer Rates Up to 5 Gbps w/USB 3.0
  • Maximum Transfer Rates Up to 480 Mbps w/USB 2.0
  • Blue LED power/ status indicator
  • USB Hot-Swappable: Plug & Play without Rebooting.
  • Power Adapter, 100-240 VAC(47Hz~63Hz), 12V/2A output
  • FCC/CE Compliant
  • RoHS Compliant

Pros

  • Lightweight
  • USB backward compatible (USB1,2 &3)
  • Plug & Play
  • Affordable (RM100 or less depend where you bought it)

Cons

  • 2-Pins plug — poor earthing. You may feel the electric boogie if you accidentally touch the hard drive.
  • No holder on the open end of the hard drive to prevent slip off.
  • Spinning hard drive is normally hot. If you’re not handling it with care you could potentially get burned or you might accidently drop the hard drive during swapping.

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7 responses to “Unboxing Hornettek Slipper”

  2. are you using a lot external HDD’s ? This one looks like a toy )
    Pro/Con: Does this enclosure support S.M.A.R.T. via its controller?

    • I have a 200GB hard drive that is not working properly and Slipper did not report any error, I guess SMART is not supported.

      I have few hard drives. Slipper is easy to use, slip in, turn on, you can begin to use your hard drive.

      I store mainly HD movie so it is cheaper for me this way. If I were to buy an enclosure for few hard drives, it would cost a fortune especially the one with USB 3.

      This is the cheapest alternative to use a USB 3 on all SATA hard drives.

      My testing on Windows PC supporting USB 3 mother board belongs to a friend, we had about 50 – 60Mbps transfer rate. Doesn’t sound by much but it does help cut down a lot of times. Our HD movie file size normally is 8GB and the ripped Blue-ray copies could be around 30 – 50GB

      • some USB enclosures actually support SMART, “WD Elements” ones for example, it is good to have some clues if a drive is in viable or ready to die state, especially if its an external drive

        • I have not tried Slipper with diagnostic software. I think it will just work. Anyway I bought the 200GB hard drive in 2005, it’s about time it retired. 🙂

          • of course it will work as any usb-to-ide/sata bridge does, and its monitoring, not diagnostics, because drive is old – it require better attention, because its external – it require better attention, thats why i think SMART support is important )

            http://agestar.ru they make good enclosures ( http://agestar.com is on english but has less products listed ) yet earlier they didnt supported SMART, not sure about support status now