Replaced 3 different single hdd cases with this one and added 2 more spare drives to it. Works great, and fast. Read and write from multiple disks at the same time. Copy/write speed from one disk to another seemed ok. Case is larger and a little heavier than I anticipated, but not a problem. Simple setup, worked out of the box with my Mac with no additional configuration or drivers.

The docking station works really well and it is very snug, my SSDs fit in there perfectly and doesn't wiggle at all, very secure and very affordable for a 4 slot docking station. The only kind of downside is the fan is incredibly loud. Like it is loud enough that I can hear it from a different room with the door closed. So to me the fan is unusable.

Prestandan är bra och enkel att konfigurera i Linux, men fläkten är fruktansvärd låter väldigt högt och går inte att styra.

Top rapport qualité prix mais bruyant si ventilateur allumé.Mais dans mon cas (NAS) fonctionne très bien sans.

Be sure to use the cable provided. I made the mistake of using a preexisting C cable that was already plugged into the back of my PC. I constantly received "Unexpected Error" messages and freezes. I replaced the original cable with the C cable that is comes with this Docking Station and have not experienced anymore issues.

Love it will order again

Encantado! La solución que necesitaba para optimizar mis discos duros históricos.Performance muy bueno y bastante estable

As someone else noted, the fan in this thing is LOUD! So, I put a small, printed circuit board 50k ohm potentiometer inline to the +v fan and adjusted the speed down until it was reasonably quiet. Now I don't really notice it anymore, and no one else does either!It would be better if they'd do what I did so you can adjust the fan speed to a quieter speed.Other than that, it's perfect! I've got 4 SSDs plugged into it and I'm streaming movies and music files from it to my LG OLED 4K TV via Plex, and it works GREAT! Aside from the fan noise, which I solved with a potentiometer, it's perfect! Recommended!

I had been looking for a hard drive dock for a while because I wanted a good backup system and had other hard drives laying around. I liked this one because it encloses completely and looks good. I also saw it on sale for a good price and couldn't say no. It works perfectly for my needs. I use it for backups of files/pictures/videos. It transfers quickly. I like the design and it seems very sturdy and well built.EDIT: 2 Years in and it still works fine.

The title doesn't even cover it!This product was beautifully and thoughtfully packaged and shipped. It is beautiful, rugged and performs as advertised and exceeded my expectations. I put 4 (2) TB drives in it, spinning seagate drives and realized when you turn the unit on, the fan doesn't automatically come on, - you will need to press the button for the fan. What I do is, turn the fan on first, then power on the drives. The fan isn't hardly noticeable or beyond what you would expect for a small desk fan and you definitely need to run the fan, - it makes a difference.Without the fan the drives were hot to the touch. After running all four drives on a several hour copy job on my Mac, the drives were cool to the touch when I detached them. I got the non-raid version which was the best version. At USB 3.0 speeds files copied quicker from the finder from Mac to drive or drive to drive then using Stellar Clone Drive or another program.So, I recommend if you don't want to run the unit with the fun, you just leave the top off. If the drives are enclosed and the top on, you gotta run the fan.The unit is solid, and not flimsy, just beautiful. Like a tiny mainframe core on your desktop, - humming away softly.I didn't test the hot-swappable feature as I've learned with Mac OS that it doesn't handle dismounting from ANY multiple drive dock with out ejecting them all, - as this is an issue with the USB BUS and the OS, not the dock so I didn't even bother attempting that in the middle of a data copy. If I could give this review 20 stars, I would.It delivered beautifully on my iMac running El Capitan.The price as well.. was an EXCELLENT investment for the quality and functionality of this product, - once you start moving data around in the Terabytes you need reliability and stability in a product to protect your information that matters most.

I have always liked, trusted and purchased Sabrent products. Thought I could purchase this as a cheap man's attached storage to use as a DVR to my mini Win 10 HTPC. I have Synology DS409slim and DS416slim 2.5" NAS boxes and thought this could give me similar capability as a side mounted USB external drive on the cheap.Tried though I might I could not make it work. Sadly, even with it's low price, because of its limitations I can't see any functional use for this product at all. In the end I purchased another DS416slim and relegated DVR duties to my DS409slim.As advertised the drives are accessible at flash SSD speeds. The drives are easily installed and it looks as if this enclosure can accommodate even 15mm tall drives. This product had the possibility of displacing the DS4XXslim series as the only 4 bay 2.5" device on the market. Sad that it misses this mark by a large marginFanFirst of its certainly nice that it has a fan, however you'll probably never want turn it on. It is very loud. If you fill this box with SSD's you don't need it. However if you use HDD's with the lid on without the fan they will surely overheat. Just one HDD in this box without the fan, ran so hot I was concerned the drive would fail prematurely. They should have given the option to set the fan speed.LED lights.The LED's are overly bright. It would be nice to dim them or turn them off entirely. Surely a minor issue but annoying when you turn off the lights and watch TV with this in the room.Not Hot SwappableThis was the deal breaker. When drives are plugged in, the other installed drives rebooted. Sometimes the drives did not reinstall themselves and remained offline. I used a mix of SSD's from Samsung, Crucial and Silicon Power and a WD HDD.Although the ardvert says "Hot Swappable" I did not find it to be the case. If I formatted a drive and then unplugged and then reinstalled to the same slot, frequently the drive would not reappear in Windows Explorer. I could take that same drive and put it into a different enclosure (Sabrent EC-RDSV) and it would display with a drive letter properly in Explorer. Put it back into the DS-4SSD and the drive is still unreadable. Move a drive to any of the other slot of the DS-4SSD and you risk it being unreadable.I tried combining multiple drives into one using Disk Manager. Win 10 would not allow this. I tried doing the same thing in Storage Spaces in Win 10. Often it would fail to work though I tried many different drive combinations. Each and every time when it did allow the DS-4SSD to create a Storage Space, in a short time it would post an error saying one of the drives was not available. Often the Storage Space could not be removed and the SSD's and HDD were "bricked". I had to find a Win 7 computer and use Disk Manager and the Diskpart command to recover them.Once some of these drives had been "bricked" and recovered, the DS-4SSD would not only not recognize them, but plugging these in would sometime make the other "unbricked" drives disappear. Incidentally I was able to use two Sabrent EC-RDSV enclosures and create and remove Storage Spaces with my drives without incident. There is something wrong with the product or my copy of it.It is not easy to reach out to Sabrent to get support. No tech support phone number. This product in my opinion has a lot of promise. If it worked it could have been valued much higher. However as it is it was a waste of a week of my time and $60.00.My wife after seeing all my frustrated attempts to get this working urged me to buy another $300 DS416slim. I put all of my "bricked" and "un-"bricked" drives into it. It formatted them without incident, combined them into a RAID5 partition using SHR. I created an iSCSI share that was designated as the D drive. I configured my Silicon Dust DVR onto the iSCSI share and went to bed peacefully for the first time in a week.Sabrent, sorry. Wanted to like this. Couldn't.Regards All and Good Night