Abstract: The invention relates to a hard drive dock (HDD) including a HDD enclosure having a first HDD outer surface and a second HDD outer surface. Each of the first HDD outer surface and the second HDD outer surface have disposed within an electrical connector configured to electrically connect to a releasably attached hard drive pod (HDP). The HDD includes a bridge circuit disposed within the HDD enclosure. The bridge circuit is configured to provide a communicative interface between the releasably attached HDP and the computer data bus connection. The HDD is mechanically configured to accept a releasably attached hard drive pod (HDP) on either or both of the first HDD surface and the second HDD surface. The invention also relates to a HDD enclosure having two or more HDD outer surfaces. The invention also relates to a releasably attached hard drive pod.