FIDECOHard Drive Docking Station, USB 3.2 Gen 1 Hard Drive Reader for 2.5 and 3.5 inch SATA HDD SSD, Dual Bay Hard Drive Dock with Type C Port, Support Offline Clone

I bought this unit to replace a failing caddy. I have a selection of drives and this device is ideal, saving me from having a separate caddy for each one, or having to undo a load of screws to exchange drives. It also has the advantage being able to use 3.5" and 2.5" drives, without modification or extra carriers.So far I've only used the unit on a Windows 10 laptop, but I've no doubt that it will work just as well on my MacBook Pro. Easy to use - just plug in the PSU and the USB cable, insert a HDD and switch it on. Windows partition manager recognises it straight away, making it easy to setup partitions and format drives. The two blue activity LEDs are useful in knowing that it's actually doing something and communicating with the PC.I've only had the unit a couple of days and it's been in constant use, running tests on 6Tb drives.Good value for money and a useful addition to my setup.

Works very well. I keep it permanently attached and on with two drives in it. No problems at all.

Great value for a USB3.2 HDD reader. I've only had it for a short while but so far it seems much faster than my previous docking station (USB 3.0). Please bear in mind that you need to have USB 3.2 architecture in the PC to take advantage of this USB 3.2 device. Basically, it will work at the speed of the slowest component, so the dock, cable and port all need to be USB 3.2 capable.

It's nice when things just work and this does.Out of 10 Hard Drives, one of them failed to spin up so I can only assume that disk is faulty (which I suspected anyway).The device looks neat and has a small form factor. Maybe not the fastest transfer rates on the planet but I was moving a lot of small files around.

I bought this to use as a multi-SSD holder, so can't comment on its cloning capability; but as a multi-drive station it works just fine.The first thing you notice is that it's quite big, but it's mostly plastic so it doesn't weigh a lot - which could be an issue if you're putting a chunky 3.5-inch drive in it, especially on only one side. It's also, I suspect, designed for gamers, so the 3 lights - power (red), left and right (blue) - have a slightly "evil" look to them, but otherwise they work as you would expect.I'm running it on a Linux system, and it has no problem mounting the drives, whether you have 2 inserted or just one on either the left or right. 2.5-inch SSD disks slot in and 'bed' very naturally, without having to search for the entry point, and the whole process feels very reassuring. Another nice feature is that the station as a whole has its own 'on/off' switch.Copy speeds from the outside seem to run at about 110-120 megabtyes/sec on the USB A port for a 250Gb test copy, which is slightly faster than my old external hard disks, but definitely slower than the ports are capable of. Happily, it's fast enough for me, but gamers might want to test for themselves.One oddity is that, once mounted, a "pair" of drives seems to work together. If you try to unmount one of them using the "Safely Remove Drive" option, you get a warning message saying "Unable to stop drive" even though the drive disappears from your desktop. When you do the same thing to the remaining drive, it also disappears, and you get *two* system beeps to indicate that it has successfully dismounted both drives.I would definitely advise doing this before turning the unit off if you don't plan to use it.So: a decent 2-drive disk station for less than 30 quid. I've only owned it for 48 hours, but so far so good.And this is the 2nd Fideco product I've bought that seems to do its job. I'll be keeping an eye out for them.

Works very well.

Excellent product

just doesnt work, the hard drive is recognized by windows 11, but then 5 seconds later not recognized, It will not stop connected long enough to copy anything Very disapointed