SABRENT USB C Docking Station for M.2 PCIe/NVMe and SATA 2.5/3.5 Inch SSD & HDD with Offline Cloning (DS-UNHC)

So far it's working excellently. I tested it with an older HDD that I thought was dead. I had tried connecting it by a USB adapter to my PC, and it kept disconnecting. I almost threw it away. I got this for other purposes, but tried it on the old drive. It worked great. Passed S.M.A.R.T. tests. So it has already saved me money. I used an inexpensive USB C to USB A adapter and it worked without any problems. It did run slower with the adapter due to the port I was using. But my plan is to use it with a type C later, and it's nice that it works with both.

I know its not what the manufacture intended but it works great as a Mass storage device to pass games from my PC to my Steam Deck flawlessly, using my docking station. All you need to do is format drives so that my PC and Steam deck can read them. They work great. I have two 10tb drives that I put all my steam games and non steam games to play on my Deck. I used to be limited to a small 512mg micro ssd card. I have several 10tb drives that were just sitting around and now they are of use to me. Of course they are great for PC back up and storage.

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.

Works exactly as advertised. I even formatted two hard drives at the same time with no issue or delay.

It's been working well these few days after receiving it. Had a little hiccup which turned out to be an issue on my PC. Already connected from 250GB SSDs to 8TB HDDs and all of the worked well and with a good transfer rate. Also, it comes with a dust protector, which is a plus for me. I'm no fan of plastic finish, but for that price its definitely worth it.

Amazing piece of tech to clone drives from one form to another. Turned my friends old 2.5 inch drive into a new m.2 PCIe for his new computer build.

Okay, before I get flack for the headline, let me attack that up front. Right away I tested by starting a delete operation on a disk as I got ready to start browsing the contents on another old drive before I got down to business to delete it as well.Well, inserting a new drive into the enclosure triggers a reset in the controller meaning that any operations you were engaging with get shut down as the drive is brought down temporarily as the controller resets. It is unacceptable behavior to advertise "hot swappable" when the drive in fact--is NOT hot swappable. The enclosure should be able to gracefully handle removing and adding disks while work is being done.The other problem I ran into was that I'm dealing with some old SATA 2.0 drives, which should max out to roughly 120-130Mb write speeds each. The GOOD news, is that the enclosure absolutely allows max speed reads and writes! The first image (131MB/s) was in running sdelete on two drives simultaneously, which was disappointing--we were topping out around 131MB/s for two separate drives. After killing one of the jobs I watched the rate drop from 131MB/s to the expected ~120MB/s (Bursts up to 160MB/s)My SATA 3.0 drives operate beautifully with sustained writes of 200MB/s==Cloning Performance==This is where other reviewers have noted performance varying across the board I tested this with old tech, cloning a 500GB WD5001AALS from a Samsung HD501LJ The clone completed in 2:06 for a full duplication Of lesser importance (since this was a raw test of zeroing a disk) is that the cache sizes were different and there's at least two years between the drives. In other words, if there is a problem due to hardware discrepancy--I would have pulled that out here. I would gladly use this to dupe drives offline, it was actually faster than how long it took to zero the drive in the first place. (~2.5hrs)In conclusion, I'm incredibly happy with the product, it serves exactly the purpose I needed. So why the negative review?*Don't lie about your product features!* Screenshot here includes the words on the box: "Plug & Play, Hot swappable"However, your product doesn't allow you to read/write from drive A and insert a drive into drive B's slot without breaking everything that you were currently doing. I am loathe to try other, larger models fearing that the exact same problem exists there too.If it wasn't for that misrepresentation, this is a 5* product.