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!

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.

If you're like me you've got too many HDDs/SSDs and not enough sata ports to use them all. I needed something to quickly swap them around and this is the perfect solution. Its fast enough, I can play games straight from the drives or stream 4k video no problem and the write speed is not affected even with 2 drives in and running at the same time. It looks sleek as well, and even though the construction is mostly plastic it's got some heft to it so it feels high quality. The one downside, as other reviews have mentioned, is the lights that show if the drives are in use are very dim so keep that in mind. If you're in a well lit room you won't be able to tell at a glance if a drive is being written to. I haven't tested the cloning capability as I didn't buy it for this feature, but I wouldn't recommend it as there isn't enough information from the lights alone to tell you when a drive is fully cloned. I would suggest using cloning software instead, you'll get more information that way. Overall though I am very happy with this for the price and a few friends have already ordered ones for themselves as they were impressed with the quality. Worth a buy for the price? Yes.

Docking Station worked brilliantly for about 8 months before developing an intermittent fault with the power supply which meant that it stopped running my 10TB drive I use for backup. (It continued to manage 3TB drives and SSD's). I had a similar power supply of the same voltage left from previous tech which fitted the unit; and I was back in business! What about this for service? I made arrangements to return the Docking Station before I had diagnosed the faulty power supply. This was arranged with the usual Amazon efficiency. I thought I would try one last ditch test of swapping out the power supply. Happily, I identified the fault and a suitable workaround. I cancelled the return and notified the seller... So I have a perfectly working unit again, and they still offered me a 50% refund. What great customer service - I would buy from them again - made my day! I declined the refund as I thought they deserved the money just for making me smile! Thank you guys for your thoughtfulness. Accepting that I may have just had a duff power supply - otherwise I cannot fault the setup. Does exactly what it is supposed to. Straight-forward and efficient on my PC with Windows 10 setup. If you need to clone drives with or without your computer; or just run a couple of additional drives externally via USB3 - buy one of these - great value.

As the person who ends up doing all the tech support for friends, family and colleagues I have hard drives coming out the wazzoo! This dock replaced my really old USB stardock one that was horrifically slow compared to this USB3 version. This Fideco brand version has such a better design, it's a lot more compact, straightforward and speedy. It's a handy multi-tasking device too as it has a built-in microsd card reader which helps me justify keeping it on my desk all the top and not just when I'm docking a HDD. It also has USB3 sockets passed through from the front of the device, along with a rocker on-off switch on the rear. I'm more than happy with the docked spinning-hdd speeds through the usb interface, compared to my old stardock it simply blows it out of the water. Highly recommended as a handy device for mounting hard drives without having to wire them directly into your motherboard. One last thing that's worth noting is that if you have one of the cheaper/smaller USB only (no mains power) ones you'll quickly realise that they can only be used to mount SSD's and they don't provide enough power to get a traditional spinning disk up and running but because this has a standard mains plug for power it's got more than enough power behind it to get even high power draw disks up and spinning.

I purchased FIDECO's SATA/IDE - USB adapter last year, and I've been really impressed by how useful it's been; when I needed a SATA dock and I saw this, then, I thought I'd give it a go. I haven't had the chance to fully test everything just yet, but what I have tested works very well indeed. Just like the adapter, this thing is extremely useful; when I'm not using it as an external dual-drive for backups, I'm using it to transfer photos from my camera's SD card and charge up my camera's battery and power-bank - all at the same time! If it continues to work as expected, this dock is excellent value for money. I've no idea if the transfer rates are as claimed, if the USB is deffinately 3.0, if the dock really can handle up to 16TB of dual HDD capacity, or (if as others have observed) it over-heats and crashes under certain circumstances - I just don't have the means to test any of these specs - however, from what I've seen from other reviews, at least some of the stats seem promising. Well made for the price point - I love the light rubbery finish (even it if is a bit of a fingerprint magnet). So far, so VERY good!

Works a treat no issues

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.

Hallo! Ich habe vor wenigen Tagen nach einem Festplatten Dock gesucht und mit dieses Modell von Fideco gekauft. Aber erstmal kurz was zu mir: ich fotografiere viel und bin studiere Informatik. Ebenso bin ich total Technik affin und arbeite als System Administrator. Ergo -> ich habe viel mit Festplatten zu tun. Regelmäßig muss ich Festplatten klonen & sichern, austauschen oder auch Daten unwiderruflich löschen. Da mich das Geräusch einer HDD wahnsinnig macht, bin ich vor kurzem auf einen PC ohne mechanische Festplatte gewechselt. Als Datenspeicher nutze ich ein NAS mit 10GBIT Zugang. Um jetzt aber auch komfortable Festplatten anzuschließen, musste ein Dock her. Dieser fiel mir besonders ins Auge, da er einen USB / SD Hub eingebaut hat wodurch man Kleinigkeiten auf dem Tisch einstecken kann. Der Dock klappt einwandfrei. Unter Windows 10 kann ich jedoch nur alle Festplatten welche angeschlossen sind auf einmal auswerfen. Unter Mac OS und unter Linux gilt dies nicht. Ebenso ist es nicht möglich, von einer angeschlossenen Festplatte zu booten. Da ich mir mit einem 3D Drucker und einer Sata Extention bereits einen hot swap 2,5 Zoll SSD Schacht nach aussen verlegt habe, um möglichst komfortabel Betriebssysteme zu wechseln und Festplatten auszutauschen, stellt dies für mich kein Problem dar. Cool ist aber, dass ich die Platten die ich hierfür nutze nun völlig unkompliziert mit dem Dock klonen kann! Bootfähig! Dies ist wirklich cool! Vor allem wenn man wie ich schon mal 10 mal die selbe Linux Distro auf verschiedenen Notebooks installiieren und einrichten soll. Dies spart mir viel Zeit! Ich bereue den Kauf keineswegs! Der Dock ist recht schmal und die Festplatten rasten leicht ein. 3,5 Zoll sowie auch 2,5 Zoll wurden von mir getestet. Ich nutze keine USB Festplatten, da diese häufig einen Hardware verschlüsselten USB Controller haben, wodurch es bei einem Ausfall von diesem nicht mehr möglich ist die Daten zu sichern. Und klar: wenn ich den Dock mit einer HDD nutze wird das ganze recht laut -> dies liegt aber an der HDD welche dann offen auf dem Schreibtisch steht! Der Dock dient ja nur als Adapter. Ich kann das Produkt weiter empfehlen! Wenn man jedoch erwartet, von Festplatten booten zu können, ist man hier leider falsch.

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J'avais déjà l'ancien modèle (chargeur téléphone usb à la place des lecteurs de cartes ici) et voulant en racheter un, mes disques n'étaient pas reconnu avec "ding ding" en boucle. Après un retour, je me suis dit probablement un modèle défectueux, donc retour... Le suivant du même modèle marche parfaitement et l'extinction depuis windows est plus rapide. Donc tout va bien.

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

tres bon et fonctionnel dans le temps