ZDNET's key takeaways The Sabrent USB SSD 4-bay docking station is available now on Amazon for $80.
This docking station makes adding external drives to your system a total plug-and-play affair.
The case is plastic, so it feels a bit cheap but that doesn't get in the way of performance. View now at Amazon
At Amazon, the Sabrent USB SSD docking station is on sale for $80 right now, a 11% discount.
It seems I'm always running out of room on my iMac drives. Why? Video files. You see, I film many videos in 4K ProRes, which means the files can get very large. Just yesterday, I filmed a video for my YouTube channel, and the file from the camera was over 100GB.
Those add up fast.
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Obviously, problems arise when you regularly have to deal with files that large on limited space. I always deleted files to make room for new ones, and that carousel never seemed to stop turning.
Until I purchased the Sabrent USB SSD docking station.
This little piece of tech has really saved me from having to delete files I'd rather keep, just to make room for new video clips. And because it's a 4-bay dock, I can keep slapping in drives (it supports up to 16TB hard drives) to ensure I always have space. Even better, the docking station has a fan to keep those drives cooler. This is especially important when working with video, as the read/write speeds will be pushed to their limits, causing heat to build up.
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