Semlos Dual Bay USB 3.0 IDE to SATA 1 All In 1 HDD Dock Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5 Inch/3.5 Inch SATA IDE Hard Drive(Compatible with Windows 2000/ XP/Vista/ 7/8, Mac OS 9.1/10.8.4)

Semios Duel Bay USB all in one a brilliant answer to saving data & photo file from old computers that are to be scrapped. I used this device to read files from windows 95 and XP computers that were destined for the council dump. Worked first time out of the box. Great bit of kit. Now having formatted the two old drives I saved I can use them as spares for saving odd files. A very happy customer with this product did what I wanted to do first time.

Shame this is currently no longer available, as it was a pretty decent little unit for the price. That said this may well be as it has been upgraded to a newer model (I haven't checked, sorry). I purchased it for one specific task of decommissioning some old drives out of defunct machines sitting around the office. It worked like a charm, allowing me to rescue data that needed rescuing and securely wiping the remainder before disposal.

Seems to take just about all drives that I have and they show up as a drive with a drive letter. Connects using Linux so you can retrieve all your data when your NAS's network board goes on the fritz! Well worth it. Dropped one star on my satisfaction due to the "Driver Disk" which has a bunch of files on but seems to have no practical use. This caddy seems to use generic windows drivers anyway! Instluction manual make no sense also, it lubbish!

I purchased this back in November 2015, with the intention of copying data from older USB2 drives using the advantage of USB3. The first problem was that it didn't work at all - It wouldn't power up - I should have returned it, but decided to open it up (blowing the warranty), it turned out to be a duff switch, which I replaced with a much better one. It then worked well with SATA drives and my older IDE drives, but it wouldn't take any of my newer IDE drives. My drives are all Western Digital and I note the listing now states this device doesn't support WD drives, this was either missing from the listing when I bought, or I missed it - I'll accept this as my bad. I made a couple of extension cables cables for the IDE side and can now use my WD drives. One word of caution, if you remove a WD drive from a "My Book", it doesn't work on any SATA interface, as these drives appear to be encrypted even if you haven't assigned a password, you can't even swap then to a different "My Book" case, so I'm stuck with USB2 till I reformat them. I've given it 4 stars, which you may consider generous, but it has been well used over the last 11 months, and performed copying & cloning flawlessly, and I've learnt some valuable lessons.

Needed a nice little dock to connect external drives. When you plug in the drive it does not slot onto the connector comfortably and there is too much flex in pushing the drive on to the connector and it feels like it will snap through. The unit appears to be intermittent in powering up connected drives. Overall quiet disappointed with the quality of the unit. Feels very cheap, plasticky and flimsy feel to it.