Sabrent USB 3.1 to SATA Dual Bay Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD, SSD. Hard Drive Duplicator/Cloner Function [Includes Both Type C and Type A Cables, Supports 10TB+ Drives] (DS-UTC2)

I ordered the following:SABRENT USB 3.1 to SATA External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD, SSD [Includes Both Type C and Type A Cables Supports UASP and 20TB Drives] (DS-UTC1)The reason why is because I wanted the option to connect to either a USB type A or type C port.Things I couldn't figure out before the purchase which I can now confirm are as follows.- The unit has no plugs on the front. What appears to be a plug on the front is a light.- On the back, the unit has 2 plugs. One for the proprietary power cord (standard nipple - looks like it could be easily replaced if needed). One for the USB connection which is indeed a USB C port. This is important to me since in some of the product pics, it looked like the USB connection was proprietary. It's not. It's a good ol' USB C port which means I can use any appropriate cable.I use this device across computers - mainly mac and windows, and sometimes unix variants. Worked great on a mac running latest OS as of Jan 3 2022. I assume it would work on windows. I partially assume the same for unix vars but don't take my word for it. These days, most OSs support USB mass storage devices.I have 2 old 2 TB SATA drives which were both in a RAID0 config in another device. I didn't care about the data on them. Goal was to resurrect them and use them for storage and then once loaded, put the drives in a safe and forget about them.Plugged them in and my mac said it couldn't read it. No problem. In disk utility, I could see the mount. I picked erase, exfat, MBR - and in about 10 seconds the drive was ready to use. This is exactly what I needed.Again, I was not concerned about keeping the data on the drives. In a scenario where you might be, I would expect the drive to properly mount and be readable assuming it has an appropriate file system / MBR loaded on it.I love how the device is small, light, and I can tote it in a backpack.An approximate $25 solution that now unlocks the use of many hard drives. I view this as an excellent cost to value scenario.Very happy with purchase.

I can assure you this works perfectly when using it for gaming. I was tired of the HDDs adding unnecessary heat inside my computer's case so I wanted to see if this would work. People said intensive games will not work well. I bought it anyway to see for myself. Well I can confirm that it works exactly as it would if your hard drive were in your computer. I tried these games and it was perfect. Guild Wars 2, Shadow of The Tomb Raider, Jedi The Fallen Order, Lumote, Code Vein, Star Wars The Old Republic, Anthem, and I just finished a match in Battlefront II. All ran just like when the drive was in the tower. Just make sure your motherboard has a USB 3.1 "GEN2" port.UPDATE: 11 months later, and it is still running perfectly. I had doubts, but I am very very happy with this thing. It never gives problems. Well outside Windows 10 believing that both slots have the same addy. However it only shows it's the same but it doesn't effect send and receive from the drives. I've researched the issue, and it turns out most every dual or more docking station does this. People just never notice because it doesn't actually interfere with performance.Update at 19 months. I finally had a drive start to die on me. Bought another HDD and tried to clone it. No matter how long I hold the button as instructed, neither light turns blue, nor do the drives start spinning and cloning. I love this drive, it works great for what I need. It allows me to play all my games through it at the same speed as if the drives were in my computer, but the cloning feature didn't work the moment I needed it. Disappointment? yes, but it still it's no big deal really as all I need to do is just drag and drop the files from one drive to another (old school) takes an additional 2 seconds to do. I'd still buy another if this one were to die on me.

I bought this drive for data transfer to old hard drives for extended cold storage. Insofar this works well except for a few caveats:- You cannot individually power down each HDD via hardware, only via software. This isnt inherently bad, but not all drives handle ejecting the same way and you do not want to move a drive while it is spinning. This is an explicitly stated feature though, so I'll give it a pass. I would like to see this in a future revision though.- Disconnecting one drive will disconnect the other. This is explicitly not hot-swappable. When copying files to one drive be sure to not remove the other or it will remount that still connected drive. This is pretty frustrating and my main gripe with the device. I expected to be able to swap drives in and out as needed, this is not the case.- Speed is acceptable, nothing crazy. I get about 80MB/s transferring files to my HDD, pretty decent so no complaints there.- Construction is good, the drives feel secure so long as you are careful upon first connection and dont wack them.Overall it does what it says on the tin save for the non-hot-swappable part and the non hardware controlled power. For the price though it is what it is, I'd pick this up if you're only gonna use it once or twice per year for cold backups like my use-case. Hopefully it holds up over time!