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Your cart is empty.The Dual 2.5/3.5" SATA hard drive docking station lets you dock and swap drives from your desktop or laptop computer simultaneously, using a single USB port. Enhanced with UASP (USB Attached SCSI Protocol), this hard drive docking station lets you get the most out of the fastest drive technologies such as SATA III (6 Gbps), solid state drives (SSD) and hybrid, drives with performance up to 70% faster than conventional USB 3.0 when paired with a UASP-enabled host controller. The hard drive dock features independent power buttons for each individual drive, ensuring you can operate each hard drive separately. This gives you the freedom to hot-swap one drive while transferring data to another, saving you time. Extend the value of this hard drive docking station further with the addition of our SATA to IDE Hard Drive Adapter (SAT2IDEADP), allowing easy insertion of any 2.5 or 3.5in. IDE hard drive into a SATA hard drive dock. To ensure compatibility with your computer system, the SDOCK2U33 supports all of the leading operating systems, including: Microsoft Windows (8/7/Vista/XP/Server 2008/Server 2003), Apple OSX (10.9/10.8/10.7/10.6), Linux, and Google Chrome OS. UASP is supported in Windows 8, Mac OSX (10.8 or above), and Linux. In testing, UASP performs with a 70% faster read speed and 40% faster write speed over traditional USB 3.0 at peak performance. SDOCK2U33 is backed by a StarTech..
Enrique D.
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2024
Works great. Happy with the brand, will keep buying.
craigzon harmer
Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2022
It's a bit expensive but so far it has worked flawlessly. I'm using 8 TB drives and there have been no problems.with earlier USB hard drive docking stations I ran into problems where the disks were corrupted when the size crossed certain boundaries, like using a 3 TB disk caused filesystem corruption.this might have the same problem when we hit the next USB/SCSI boundary jump, but so far it has worked reliably for me.I haven't performed any performance measurements, but accessing two drives at the same time did not create any obvious problems ...
mark john wallman
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 16, 2021
I am very happy with this HDD docking station it works very good and fast but the sell could have paged it a lot better it was a box in a box and the main box just moved around inside the other box and the only padding was one piece of brown paper and it was small but very good item
Mark B.
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2021
I use this docking station under Windows 10 to archive video, music and data files to offline removable disks.While the first model I ordered had a defective switch and required exchange, the replacement has worked as expected for the last three months.Chose this model for the two separate power/status switches which is a feature not available on most docking stations. Based on archiving needs (and the capacity of USB-3), it can be useful not to activate both drive slots at the same time.Chose StarTech as I have owned the 4-disk model for several years with good experience and trust the brand more than many other makes.Chose USB-3 interface to replace a previous eSATA model due to increasing difficulty of getting driver support for my computer's eSATA interfaces. USB-3 interface currently works better for running multiple drives that require removing-at-will in a docking station than most current eSATA options.
User
Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2020
I had some hard drives I had removed from computers for various reasons. I needed to determine their status (good or bad). I was able to do that easily with this unit. Some of the drives had been removed from old computers. I could reformat the drives, removing the old operating systems. Basically, this did what I needed. Thanks StarTech.
Joshua Boniface
Reviewed in Canada on December 30, 2020
This cradle costs a bit more, but is no-nonsense. Direct USB3 connectivity, direct recognition of the drives in the host OS. Works flawlessly with Linux without any additional configuration. No fuss, no nonsense, no hacky "offline copy" functionality that tries to emulate fake devices. The power buttons on the top are a great touch, allowing safe operation of one drive while swapping the other. If you just need to hook up two hard drives and quickly swap them, this is the cradle for the job.
Marco T.
Reviewed in Italy on October 9, 2020
Preso questo Startech.com al posto di altri dock meno costosi e apparentemente più ricchi di feature perché quelle feature erano incomplete, es. la copia/clone di dischi che funziona solo su partizioni Windows mentre io uso Mac OS.Ho dunque preferito puntare alla qualità e alle performance, tanto con Mac OS il sistema mi da già le funzioni di clone praticamente in un click.Conoscevo già Startech.com per altri prodotti e non sono mai stato deluso. Anche stavolta sono molto soddisfatto dell'acquisto.Motivi:1) La qualità costruttiva è ottima.2) Tasti power specifici per ciascun disco: ciò permette di inserire un disco nello slot senza che questo venga alimentato mentre fa contatto, o peggio gli venga staccata l'alimentazione mentre si sgancia dallo slot. Inoltre quando "espello" un disco posso spegnerlo lasciandolo nello slot invece che toglierlo ogni volta, risparmiando cicli di utilizzo dei connettori. I tasti power sono contornati da un anello che segnala in blu l'accensione e in rosso lampeggiante l'attività.3) Performance: UASP (acronimo di USB Attached SCSI Peripheral) funziona e si vede. I trasferimenti sono veramente fulminei (ovviamente dipende dali tipo di disco che si usa!). Ho anche un'enclosure Thunderbolt2 e posso dire che le performance di questo UASP sono eccellenti. Manca il TRIM, e per averlo nativo bisogna passare a Thunderbolt che è radicalmente diverso e gli enclosure sono (e vengono visti dal sistema come) dei controller AHCI nativi, ma ha anche altri prezzi.
Chris
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2019
I bought this device for use under Linux as an enclosure that I could use to support 2 5TB Seagate Barracuda drives in a software RAID array. For the record, it works. I an average of about 100MB/s read rate to the RAID 1 array composed of those two devices from my Thinkpad P50 over USB 3. It's listed as a "uas" device under lsusb. It has only been a few days so I can't vouch for its long-terrm stability, though.
Luis E.
Reviewed in Mexico on August 3, 2018
Buscaba un docking estuve buscando muchas opciones y me decidi por esta versión me gusta que puedo montar dos discos al mismo tiempo y funciona de maravilla!!! lo recomiendo...
Allan Ken Miyazono Ushijima
Reviewed in Mexico on March 27, 2018
El producto es muy útil para recuperar información. Y muchas veces me ha ayudado ha respaldar mi información y la de otros. Y la recomiendo a personas que son los “soportes técnicos “ de la casa o de los amigos. Aunque parece que no se utiliza mucho, te saca de apuros en situaciones inesperadas.
Denise Dooley-Opper
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2017
This thing completely crashed my computer, Now i'm having to reinstall windows 10. It sucks.piece of crap, I bought this a a second one so i didn't have to keep taking mine back and forth.I just plugged it in, brought the HDD from my other working one over turned it on, blammo..Blue screen that I cannot get out of, blue scree in safe mode and every mode, I'm screwed.Thanks you.
steven s.
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2015
I have been using Startech hardware and cables for years. Always found them to be reliable. Sometimes a bit more expensive but well worth it. I suffered some kind of power surge in the motherboard of one of my computers. Fried the sata II connectors and two of my hard disks. Had to pull the rest of the drives outside the case and was short e-sata ports. Very happy with the performance of this device. Have not yet used the back up feature as I have not yet recovered my lost data. One great feature is the eject button instead of just pulling the drives out. No fear of damaging connectors on drives. Not sure about other docking stations, but you can turn the drives on after the computer is on and dismount the drives while computer is running. Hot swappable basically. Again, totally happy with purchase.
JDA
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2015
This dock is exactly what I was looking for. It is very convenient having the ability to have two additional drives connected. I use this for docking drives that have large video files on them. Overall I am somewhat pleased with this setup. One huge negative is that the drives spin down or go to sleep far too quickly. Once that happens it takes longer than expected before I can read or write from the drives. I contacted StarTech. Almost a month later, they responded that there was no adjustment for that setting.
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