StarTech.com Dual-Bay USB 3.0 to SATA and IDE Hard Drive Docking Station, USB Hard Drive Dock, External 2.5/3.5" SATA III/IDE, SSD/HDD Docking Station, Hot-Swap Drive Bays, Top-Loading (UNIDOCKU33)

Works exactly as described. Meets my expectations. I was surprised at the ease of use. The plug and play feature of Windows better known as a plug and pray seemed to install the unit with no hitches. It sees an inserted drive in the same way it would a USB flash drive allowing you to use it for data storage or to perform other functions with the associated drive. Not sure if it would provide a bootable drive option. I suppose that would depend on your boot order in the bios. I have not tried the clone or copy feature yet but so far it seems to work as advertised.

I had every hard drive that I have ever had in a box with the intention that someday I would add them to a new computer to copy all of my artwork and written music. Never happened until I brazenly type in USB harddrive Dock. Lo and behold this unit appeared first. Kind of funny because even though I worked in the IT industry I never knew they existed and when I described what I wanted to do to another techie they would scrunch up their nose and say that such a beast does not exist. This worked perfectly without any computer complaints or error messages.

Do not buy this. Item received was nothing like the picture. Does not clone like the description claims and lacks a clone button entirely.

I liked the idea of a dock that can handle IDE drives, since I'm going through old computer drives and media. This one works, but the IDE part is pretty clunky.

Bottom line is this dock does what it says it will do, allow you to transfer data between SATA dn IDE drives. What is not so clear from the write ups though is that it does not allow you do transfer between two SATA drives. This is a one to one transfer capability only, one SATA and one IDE drive. Other than that, plugged it in, set the drives in place and off we went. simply and easily. Remember if you are looking for that SATA to SATA handling then this is not the dock for you.

Great dock. This contains one slot for SATA drives and one slot for PATA drives. The PATA slot does not have any connections, as you are expected to use the external cables to connect PATA drives to the dock. This is great for folks with a mix of older drives and newer drives.

Well, I have been thinking about this type of device for a while, but didn't know one existed. You see, I was an early adopter with home PC's, so needless to say I have a lot of old hard drives around the house. At one point I had my old stuff on a backup drive, but foolishly I striped the drives, so when one crashed I lost that data. Fast forward to this device. Took a few tries to get the drive jumpers arranged so it worked, but once it did, it worked well. Would recommend for anyone (like me) with old hard drives lying around who want access to the data without the hassle of installing into the PC.

It does what I needed, which was to easily transfer files off of old hard drives and then erase the drive.

Prodotto molto buono. Ottima la costruzione. Connessione USB 3.0 molto veloce. Il PC lo ha subito riconosciuto ed installato. Sono molto soddisfatto.

Another excellent product from startech. I have tried with this with everything from 20yr old drives, to brand new 20TB enterprise drives and it performs perfectly. The IDE feature is nice to have, buty old IDE drives are seized up, which is something it obviously can’t help with. No issues with power draw or losing connection, which is why I had to buy this in place of a generic 3.5” powered adapter. The only quirk I discovered and I think it was my system, was that my read/write speeds were severely throttled unless I connected directly to a USB A port on a dock, rather than using a usb-a to usb-c adapter directly into the back of my M1 iMac.

Habe damit die Daten von mehreren älteren Festplatten "gerettet" hat gut und zuverlässig funktioniert. Werde auch weiterhin damit arbeiten wenn ich Festplatten aus PCs oder Laptops ausbaue und die darauf vorhandenen Daten nachträglich sichern möchte.

For Seagate and Maxtor IDE drives, this works well. For a variety of other IDE HDD, it does not. The recommended jumpering can be obtained from (older) online sources for the manufacturers of those drives, but I know the last-used-date of these IDE drives and what I stored on them, using Windows XP to Windows 7 and then-current hardware. It is very disappointing (not to mention inconvenient) that this equipment is not up to scratch.

Buon prodotto per funzionalità di accesso a drive in hotswap. Limitazioni: non consente copia al volo non consente di avere collegato drive sata e IDE in contemporanea non legge tutti i drive IDE