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Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2025
Note that this hard drive docking station is of usb version 3.0 so it is not as fast as others of version 3.1 or higher. Nevertheless, it is fast enough for the docking station to provide access to up to 2 hard drives to your system. The hard drive can be a 2.5 in or 3.5 in. Just dock the drives to the 2 slots and connect the usb3 cable and you're good to go. The dock station has a copy function to copy from one drive to the other. Just make sure that the disk space are large enough for the disk copy process. I like the fact that the dock station goes to suspend state when idle and will rev up your drives when accessed. Nice product.
Adam W.
Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2025
I used this drive for about 8 months with just 1 drive in it and it worked really well. It's on a machine that never reboots unless the power goes out for an extended duration. In those 8 months the single drive corrupted entirely once when the power failed. I chalked it up to the failure.About a months ago I put a second drive in the dock. In that month I have lost both drives three times... Again, once when power failed... I blamed it on that again... but the last 2 times the drives and data were working fine and upon a normal reboot the drives simply come back up as inaccessible. 99% of the access to these drives are READING for my media server. I have 2 other USB drives on this machine and they never corrupt. There are 4 internal hard drives that also never corrupt. It's only media in this dock... no other corruption issues whatsoever except this device.So, it seems with 2 drives installed, a reboot is very likely to corrupt both drives.I will now enter my 3rd recovery phase on my drives because of this dock after I rebooted my computer tonight... where I likely, again, will not get back 100% of my media and will have to go to backups.I highly recommend passing over this dock. It's caused me a ton of frustration.
John Putnick
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2025
Good connectivity. Easy to install and use.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2025
I just used it to copy a spining 500 gb hard drive to a 500 GB SSD and pushed the buttons and walked away.I Stuck the SSD in the computer and it took off just fine (Only a lot faster)so it worked just fine.
R. Sullivan
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2024
Works as advertised. I have 2 2 tb hard drives installed one has corrupt files and the other is new. I copied most of files from corrupt hard drives to the new good drive. I am now trying to repair the corrupt files and copy to new drive.The docking station is plug and play. Its access time is fairly fast. It was definitely worth buying.
JimS
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2024
I had one before this one and it was made of plastic. "It fell apart. When I saw this one I knew Iwanted it. It will work for me for years.
Jason Huang
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2024
I was skeptical at first, since this is my first time using an offline cloning device. I wanted to clone 4 drives from my Synology NAS which are in a RAID configuration. The first 20tb Seagate EXOS x22 drive cloned to an identical blank drive took about 24 hours. The resulting cloned drive works perfectly within the old array - the NAS didn't notice anything different. So, this is definitely a bit-by-bit clone, including all unsused space, down to the last bit on the platter. It doesn't matter what OS, partition, RAID, or format your source drive is - it seems to be a perfect copy.While copying, the drives are no longer inside an air cooled enclosure such as your PC case or NAS, so they do get hot. I found and stuck a small usb portable fan beside it to help bring down the temps.The unit isn't made of plastic, as you would expect. It's actually metal. Aluminum, maybe. It's got a nice quality solid feel to it. Overall, I am very happy with my purchase.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2023
I first put a Seagate Ironwolf 4TB hard drive in. It took a few minutes before it was available in Windows 11.I cloned an Ironwolf to another. There was about 1.79TB of actual data. It took 7 to 71/2 hours to clone it. I removed the one cloned to for an offline backup. I was using the Ironwolf still in the docking station as a backup drive. The docking station remained connected and I copied files to it and to an Amazon Basics 3TB external hard drive. I have been using the Amazon HD for 5 years or so with no issues (on Windows 10 if that matters). Similarly, I had used WD external hard drives as backups until I moved to Windows 11 and the WD drives were not supported by Windows 11, so they went to the electronic dump.Something went wrong with the Ironwolf in the docking station. It was corrupted! For a week or so it worked fine. I turn the computer off at night but left the docking station on -- as I had done with the other external hard drives I have owned and had no issues for a decade.To restore the drive I cloned from the computer hard drive (the working HD) to the corrupted drive in an external StarTech 3.5 inch case connected to a USB 3.0 port using Macrium Reflect v7.2 (an old version that what is available now). The copy rate was about 10.7% per hour. It took from 4:25PM to about 1 AM to complete. Contrast that to the docking station that took about 7.5 hours.I am not using the docking station as an online backup as I do and have done with the other external hard drives I have. It is useful as a cloning station and I will use it to update my offline backup drive.I have to ding this unit 1 star as I had never had a corruption problem with any of the external USB hard drives for over a decade. If used as a backup I would eject it (in Windows), wait for it to stop rotating or give a minute if an SSD and then power it down.
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