SABRENT USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III Dual Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD, SSD with Hard Drive Duplicator/Cloner Function [20+TB Support] (EC-HD2B)

I have to say, this is probably the most ingenious USB connectivity style external drive connector I've seen. I love how easy it is to install and use. It's not too big, so the size isn't an issue. It works great for the application I bought it for, but it gives me a whole plethora of ideas of how to use it long term. And the price is on par with other usb adapters to quickly hook up an drive via USB without a case. I love it.

As soon as I received this docking station, I put it to use. The simplicity of it is amazing! I formatted my new hard rive with little effort and when I couldn't get my drive to clone I contacted their customer support who got back to me fairly quickly and helped me determine my old drive was in too bad of shape. I used an older drive and it cloned with no problem and fairly quick (1tb in about a half hour). I would definitely recommend this product to all.

Love this thing. Individual cases for HDDs don't make sense, because you need separate wires for data and power. 1TB 3.5" HDDs are currently selling on eBay for around $14 USD, so this is a great solution for archiving and backing up data. Works great in Ubuntu Linux 24; no drivers or kernel mods needed, just plug and play.

Worked as a drive doc, Clone feature didn't work for me and it partitioned the new 500gb to 256(old drive i was trying to clone) NOTE: not a lot of info on how to clone or how long it takes to complete. I would think that after 3 hours a new 256gb with just the op sys and MS office cloning (to a 500 gb )would be completed. Maybe I canceled too soon.

I did not know how fast USB 3 was until I bought this Sabrent dual bay docking station. The Sabrent worked flawlessly in every respect. I should have bought this docking station long ago. I have been using USB2 for a long time, I never knew what I was missing. The reviews were right. This station is the best...Thank you Sabrent for bringing me into the future. A great product at a great price. Only one tiny flaw. My docking station is under a shelf and I cannot see the A and B on the back. A trip to hobby lobby fixed that issue for me. A little bit of front lettering.....Take notice Sabrent.

Docking my drives is simple, and the cloner works without issues.

I regularly have a need to temporarily connect SATA HDDs or SSDs to my computer, either to pull off some data, to wipe them clean or to run a "burn-in" test on a new HDD. In the past I used a powered SATA to USB adapter and put the bare drive onto my table (or rather onto a mat on my table to minimize vibrations). This unit is the more sophisticated version of such an adapter and makes my desk look less like a lab and more like an office. The unit provides two SATA connectors to connect two drives in parallel and even the option to perform an offline copy from one drive to another (which I did not test). It comes with a manual printed in color on high-quality paper, however the only important info I took from there is that the drive(s) should be inserted BEFORE turning on the unit. That means that the unit apparently does not have hot-plugging/hot-swapping ability (or at least it isn't officially supported). The unit has a power switch and a clear plastic cover to protect the device from dust, while not in use. Unfortunately though that plastic cover has no cut-outs for the connected power and usb cable, so it looks a little slapdash on my desk. The unit also has some padded feet, however these are very thin and do no prevent vibrations from HDDs to transmit to your desk. As a consequence I will be buying some thicker adhesive rubber feet to mitigate this. After using the unit for a few days I can say that so far it has been very reliable. I used it to do read and write tests on two HDDs (4TB and 14TB) and it has performed well. I have connected the unit to a USB 3.1 gen 1 (5Gb/s) port on my computer, which is the maximum connection speed that this unit can operate in (so no point plugging it into a 10Gb/s port). However for HDDs the performance will be dictated by speed that the HDD can provide anyway. During a linear read and write test, the speed was as high as 260 MB/s for some parts of my 14TB HDD (a WD Red Pro), but - as expected - lower in other parts of the disk). For an old 4TB disk the read and write speed was 50MB/S, so this unit can definitely keep up with current HDDs. However in principle the 5Gb/s transfer speed on the USB 3.0 interface of the unit is 18% lower than what SATA III allows for (6Gb/s), though these are theoretical speeds. To test the limits of the transfer rate, I also tested this with a 2TB Crucial MX500 2.5" SSD, the highest transfer speed on a sequential read test was about 405 MB/s. CrystalDiskMark 8 showed max. sequential read speeds of 460 MB/s for reading 5 1GiB Blocks. So the interface is plenty fast with one drive installed, at least for my needs. However when running two WD Red Pro 20TB HDDs in parallel and running a sequential write on both at the same time, the data transfer speed dropped to 160 MB/s at the beginning of the disk, then slowly increased to ca. 190 MB/s about two thirds through and then dropped toward 125 MB/s at the end of the disk. So there is definitely some overhead, when using two drives at the same time. All in all I am very pleased with this unit so far. I would deduct half a star for the clunky cover and the thin feet, but at 4.5 stars a round-up to 5 stars seems more fair than a round-down to 4 stars. I have some more HDD burn-in testing to do in the coming days, and I will update this review, if my view on this unit materially changes.

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Makes backing up systems extremely easy and you can use hard drives like disk drives and hot swap while the computer is on. Speed is good and device is sturdy and well made. Works plug and play on Windows and Linux (haven’t tried mac but sure it’d work) and can be used as a boot drive to quickly recover from a drive crash or corrupted system. Don’t know how I lived without it. Looks like a toaster 😁 paired with a RaspberryPi, you can make an extremely fast, feature rich and reliable NAS/Cloud server/time machine network backup for 1/4 the price of a ready made NAS and 10x the features. Works with 3.5” and 2.5” HDD and SSD. With HDDs, the disks never completely spin down which makes accessing files quicker but does create some noise. Also the drives can get hot, I have a square case fan powered by my RaspberryPi 5v GPIO pins to keep it cool.

I used other docking station , but this one the best and support HDD and as well SSD with large capacity upto 10 TB.

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