SABRENT Dual-Bay USB-C Hard Drive Docking Station & Cloner (EC-CH2B) | Offline 1-to-1 cloner, 2.5in/3.5in SATA HDD & SSD, USB-C cable included, 5Gbps, Hot-swap, No IDE support

Awesome. Easy to use, no installation software, just turn it on.

Geat for cloning hdds w OS but cloning one storage hdd to another in stand alone mode will not wok. It does not work since it's a exact copy w same drive letter. So pc can only read one hdd.at a time So to make copied ypu.must use your pc, since I already had a dual hdd dock, as well.as acronis which I use to clone my OS drive. Product works great for cloning os in stand alone feature. Just wish ad would of stated the issue doing storage drives. Still great Product but did not need When you do that and want to read both of your storage drives it can only read one at a time ! The A drive has I guess you would.call boot able software which is great when you C.drive that has your OS . But if your just doing storage drives is a pain as you can only read one of the other which means you have to pull one out. Say I cloned one storage to another it can only read one at a time. If I wanted to add anything to both it would require one be pulled out. Sorry don't have proper tech terms. Contacted cust service and confirmed that is the way it worked. Perhaps a updated model would let you turn off the bookable feature on A drive. Another feature I would like in the future would be able to clone SD storage cards,with.cards getting larger I hate to tie up pc doing that. For.thr cloning C: hd w OS this product is outstanding, now how about a updated version that would cover.the issues I mention in not a too technical way huge

I got the SABRENT USB Type C SATA Dock to connect my 2.5” and 3.5” SATA drives externally, and it’s been fantastic. Setup was a breeze—just plug and play with no extra drivers needed. The USB-C connection makes transfers fast and stable, and it supports both SSDs and HDDs easily. I love that it can handle both sizes of drives, so I can swap them out whenever I want without hassle. The build quality feels solid and the dock holds the drives securely. I’ve used it for backups and data recovery with zero issues. If you work with multiple SATA drives or want an easy way to access old drives, this dock is super handy and reliable. Definitely recommend it!

Make sure you opt for the latest version of the Sabrent Hard Drive Disc Dock. The USB “C” version is the latest. The unit works perfectly. It recognized the 2TB target drive immediately. I used the dock to clone my PC C Drive. Now, if my C Drive crashes or locks up I only have to swap out the drives and I’m up and running. You can also copy from one drive to another off line - simple as pressing a button. I keep all my personal files on my internal D Drive. I’ll copy those over to a backup drive soon using the Sargent Dock.

Tested and verified: 20TB drives are supported by the 2-bay, USB-C model (model EC-CH2B) of this Sabrent SATA hard drive docking station. I have been using it for two weeks with two Seagate Exos X20 20TB SATA hard drives, using the full capacity of the hard drive all the way to the top, and this docking station works flawlessly without a hiccup. I am running it on a Windows 11 laptop. I fully formatted the two 20TB drives using a full (very slow and complete) Windows NTFS format, not a quick format, just to make sure that the docking station can access the full capacity of the drive, and it formats successfully. Then, I completely filled the drive with data, all the way to the end, and read all the data back again, and it all verifies and works perfectly. I am posting this info in this review because the specs for this say that it supports up to 16TB, but doesn't mention 20TB. That's just because the manufacturer has only tested it on drives up to 16TB (I'm pretty sure that 20TB drives were not yet available when the manufacturer wrote up the specs). Conceptually, since this docking station has enough hardware addressing lines for 16TB drives, it will also work with 20TB drives (and higher capacities), but now I've actually verified this for myself. I really like this little SATA docking station. It's compact, so I can pack it up with me when I travel. It's quite inexpensive, which is a nice bonus. It doesn't need a user manual - like other SATA docking stations, you just plug it into a USB-C port on your computer, and it just works. It gives you two (potentially very large) hard drives connected to your laptop or desktop computer, to use for backups, or to store large external data files. Super easy and reliable. The one feature I wish this docking station had was 10Gbps data transfer speed, per the USB 3.x Gen 2 standard. Alas, this docking station only supports the slower and slightly older 5Gbps speed, which is USB 3.0 Gen 1. Truthfully, this is not a big deal, because the SATA III standard for hard drives only supports 6Gbps anyway, so the 10Gbps is overkill, and the 5Gbps speed of this docking station is almost as fast as the 6Gbps maximum speed of SATA III. But still, faster is better. There is another dual-bay SATA docking station here on Amazon that supports 10Gbps - it is the StarTech Dual-Bay SATA Docking Station (10Gbps) . However, I discovered that for some reason that StarTech dual-bay docking station is not compatible with the USB-C shipset in my Clevo laptop. So, I got this Sabrent dual-bay docking station instead, and it works great.

I use this to run a Plex server from a compact PC. Having your bare drives sitting in the open air might not be an aesthetic everyone will like, but it does make things so much simpler if you ever have to swap drives. Mine sits in a cabinet behind some stuff so you can't even see it. The open design also helps keep the drives just a little cooler than they would be in an enclosed bay. I brought this to a friend's house to test multiple hard drives for SMART errors. With a more traditional external drive bay you'd have to install and remove the hard drive each time. This one was way quicker. But it's not exactly hot swap. The dock itself shows up as a single device in Windows. If you choose to safely remove it, the entire dock disconnects. You then have to switch it off and on again (or unplug and replug) and it'll show up. You can't just disconnect one drive at a time to swap out. But this is a pretty minor drawback. If you need to be able to unmount individual drives, I'm sure there are (more expensive) products out there. I haven't used the offline cloning feature so I can't comment on that. I am not sure I'd feel comfortable using it instead of manually cloning one drive to another from a PC, but maybe there are situations where it's more convenient.

Excellent product. Works quite well. Well made. Fast shipping.

Followed directions using supplied cables and initially the station recognized my 1st HDD. Inserted 2nd HDD and it was NOT recognized and the 1st drive disconnected for 15 seconds (or so). Tried a 3rd HDD and it was not found. It would only read the 1st drive and after about 3 hours it failed completely. It also corrupted 2 of my drives but I was able to recover 1 of them so far. Contacted mfg and as I only had an Amazon order number they declined to help me.

2 old SATA HDD drives installed and connected to 2021 MacBook Pro 16" via Lazer Thunderbolt dock. Works well with transfer speeds expected for SATA drives - 6GB Time Machine backup was completed in about an hour. There's some play in the HDD connection even when fully seated, and I'm not sure I'd want to keep taking the drives in and out as it would be easy to damage. Overall build quality is light, almost flimsy, but since I'll be leaving the drives in situ, it shouldn't get much wear and tear. Great for my intended purpose and not expensive. If you're looking for a robust unit that you can regularly swap drives in and out of, this might not last.

This is a reliable product and works well at reasonably fast transfer rates. Be careful where you buy since your purchase may 'not' include the power supply for your country. Sellers only sell product as is ...

j'en ai plusieurs et ces boitier ne m'ont pas encore fait de probleme .C'est rapide et fiable

Perfect apparaat, doet alles wat er wordt beloofd, en makkelijk te bedienen

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