UCtech USB 3.0/eSATA to SATA Dual Hard Drive Docking Station
Over the years I’ve used several different internal hard drives. Every once in a while I need to access them directly from a different computer from the one that they had been installed on. In the past I’ve used various sets of cables and adapters for this task, all of which have been a rather inelegant solution for this task. UCtech 2 bay HDD Docking station, on the other hand, proved an almost ideal setup for such tasks. I used it to access and fix several internal 3.5″ HDDs from my malfunctioning Windows server. I was able to fix the partitions effortlessly, and transfer and burn several files and directories onto the DVD ROM. I have also used it to make a carbon copy of the 2.5″ internal hard drive in my Mac Mini, which helped me with the HDD upgrade for that computer. This is perhaps the best use for this particular docking station – it can make carbon copies of hard drives without the need to connect to a computer. It is a great, almost hassle-free way of copying your hard drive content.
This docking station is meant to be used with the USB 3 cables and docks, but it’s also backward compatible with the USB 2 standard. The docking station comes with an external power supply, so it should in principle work with any standard USB port. I’ve tested it with four different HDDs – one was 1 TB , one was 500 GB, one was 320 GB and the last one was 160 GB. I was able to use it with both Mac and PC computers. I did not try to benchmark the file transfer rates, but they seem to be in comparable to the other USB 3 external storage systems that I’ve used.
The docking station seems well made and durable. It was physically extremely easy to insert and take out the HDDs.
I would strongly recommend this docking station to any IT professionals or prosumers, as well as to anyone who needs to archive and access large amount of files on a not-too-frequent basis.
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