Docking Station, FIDECO Docking Station for 2 Hard Drives SATA USB 3.0 Cloning Function 2.5 Inch and 3.5 Inch HDD SSD SATA

I have been using 5.24" slot-in hard disk caddies for years. They make it so easy to mirror the contents of one hard drive to another. Essential for backing-up my photo collection, etc. Your needs may be similar. Caddies are getting harder to find as most desktop cases nowadays have far fewer external slots available. This FIDECO has USB-3 for speed, can take 2.5" and 3.5" drives [two of each] AND has two USB-3 ports on the front PLUS a microSD card slot - also on the front. The drives just 'post' into place. There is a power-switch on the rear. The unit needs mains power to work via the 'brick' supplied. There is automatic power-down of the inserted hard drives. Mine seems to take longer than the twenty minutes since large drive access but it does operate. Easy to tell by touching the 3.5" drives to detect any vibration. They definitely stop spinning. Works very well indeed. Surprisingly speedy, too. Definitely not slow. Capable of shifting many gigabytes in a short time. In case it matters: this is a six-core, Phenom 5 5600 motherboard, with 16Gb of RAM. FIDECO unit looks good in matt black. Has non-slip feet so unit does not 'waltz' or vibrate when drives active. Excellent value for money. An ideal modern alternative to disk caddies. Recommended without reservation. Hope helpful!

I've had a number of these sort of bay/hubs over the years and this is an excellent little bay, delivered quickly and well packaged which also works connected to our TV USB port (it might not with others - test at your own risk). I have the model (there are a few) which has the wider spaced USB ports on the front which allows even fat kingston usb sticks (see other review) to be used in tandem and unit gives good transfer speeds depending on ports/drives used of course. Simple to set up - plug and play/go even with our TV Its very compact despite catering for 3.5 and 2.5 sata drives, AND USB sticks, and better looking (opinion) than my older red ones. ** Clone feature is atrociously slow and limited and actually seems CONSIDERABLY slower and more basic than using this same hub connected to a PC and using a window freeware utility to clone with the 2 way sata overhead. I glued the button on my older drives to prevent accidental use. Just as hub - File transfer gives very reasonable speeds read and write (depending on USB ports) I think other reviews have dealt with much of the rest.

It works straightforward, I didn't have any problems with windows 11 drivers. I have not tested the transfer speed yet but it seems fast enough for my needs.

Great USB dock. Works well on a Synology NAS USB port with any SATA HDD or SSD for automatic file backup. Using scheduled DSM Hyperbackup app allows for daily rolling updates. Also works brilliantly on Windows PC (or laptop) ... I haven't tried the SD card reader but see no reason that wouldn't work as expected. Overall a flexible and useful bit of kit for a low price.

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Really pleased with this HD caddy, for both 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch SATA drives, and with a bonus, that it will create a clone from one drive to the other. In my images, the large drive is an old Sata 3.5 inch Mechanical Hard drive, and the small drive is a SATA 2.5 inch SSD. I placed the drives in the correct place, this is VITAL to get the drives the right way round, otherwise you could end up copying an empty drive to a full drive. So make sure the source drive goes into HD1 and that the destination drive goes into HD2. During the cloning process, the first blue LED shows when 25% done, the second blue LED shows when 50% done, and the 3rd LED shows when 100% complete, then all 3 LEDs will be lit up. There is one problem, but not serious, it is not clear at all which section is for HD1 and which section is HD2, and this is why it would be quite easy to get the drives the wrong way round when cloning. Anyway, It did a perfect job in the end, very impressive, and of course, dont forget, it also reads 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch drives when connected to your laptop USB socket. There are also additional inputs for various USB devices, which also show up on your laptop / computer. I am Really delighted, and other than the lack of clarity as to which is HD1 and which is HD2, this is an absolute must. Thank you. Please see my images which show more.

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Gayet güzel, 2 Adet 16TB HDD’yi tam yük altında kayıp olmadan çalıştırdı.

Salut, installation simple, prise en main facile. Content de mon achat.

De docking station laat je schijven die uit een USB-verpakking komen alsnog benaderen. Soms (niet altijd) werkt het dan nog als het in de USB behuizing niet doet. Het kunnen insteken van een USB memory stick of een camera USB SD memory card is ook erg handig. Clonen van een schijf (van poort 1 naar poort 2) kan ook al zie ik me dat niet veel doen.

Tenia muchos discos duros en casa y quería ver y extraer información de ellos en un día conecte más de 30 y funciono a la perfección el material es plastico pero se siente rígido de buena calidad su uso es muy intuitivo, tenia duda si podría conectarlo a un adaptador usb a usbc c y funciono a la perfección, lo recomiendo mucho