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StarTech.com - Dual eSATA/USB 3.0 Hard Drive Duplicator Dock - Black
Average customer rating
3.5
(18 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 18 reviews
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Customer Reviews for StarTech.com - Dual eSATA/USB 3.0 Hard Drive Duplicator Dock - Black
Customer Rating
5
Does exactly what it says
on February 1, 2017
Posted by: Andrew11
This is a great device for cloning HDDs/SSDs for upgrades. Take the time to read the manual; there aren’t a lot of buttons and it takes a bit of planning your first time out. I took some old data drives to try out first, just to get the hang of the process. I’ve now done HDD to HDD upgrades, and HDD to SSD without issue. This will undoubtedly find a place in my IT toolbox from now on.
I received this product in exchange for an unbiased review
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Customer Rating
4
Good product - works as advertised
on January 24, 2017
Posted by: ABThompsons
This product includes the docking station, USB 3.0 cable, eSATA cable, and power adapters
The encasement is bulking looking and not a modern looking design.
The unit has 2 drive bays which can be used to clone a 2.5 in. or 3.5 in. hard drive without a host computer. Note that it duplicates the entire drive and you cannot be selective by partitions.
The two bays are labeled HDD1 and HDD2. I think it would have been be safer to label the bays source and destination so there is no confusion when cloning drives. There is an indicator on the unit which shows the percentage completed when cloning drives. Approximate time to clone a 500GB HD was just a little over 1 hour.
When using the unit as a docking station, I could only get it to recognize one drive at a time even though following the instructions precisely.
As advertised, this unit easily clones drives and can be used as a docking station for an external hard drive.
I received this product in exchange for an unbiased review.
Written by a customer while visiting startech.com
Customer Rating
5
Simple and Easy
on January 19, 2017
Posted by: Starr
If you are looking for a solution that is very simple and easy to implement then this SATA Duplicator Dock is what you need. I had a laptop 2.5in hard drive that had some back sectors on it so I needed a way to duplicate the data to a new drive. I had never used this device before but it was as simple as taking it out of the box, plugging in the power cord, inserting the 2 drives and then pushing Power, Copy, Start. With a 22GB per minute copy throughput this did not take long to complete. Once finished I installed the new hard drive into the laptop and it booted up into the operating system and has worked since. I also tested out the USB docking feature by plugging it into my MacBook Pro and all of the partitions on the old hard drive were available including the laptop recovery image partition. And once again it was as simple as pushing the Power button because this unit defaults to the PC docking mode.
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Posted by: Brian_S
Verified Purchase:Yes
copied seveal small boot SSD drives to larger ones. Data copied , but were not bootable. The M.2 Adapter would not read any of my M.2 sticks. I will be boxing it all up to return it.
Written by a customer while visiting startech.com
Customer Rating
5
SATA Duplicator Dock Made Easy
on January 3, 2017
Posted by: James H
I have been in the technology business for over 35 years and for the past 20+ years I have been asked to provide unbiased reviews of various products from both the AV and IT world. In review of this product I have found that it works with both 2.5" and 3.5" SATA Drives as well as HDD and SSD. The unit works with Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista/Server 2008 R2/7/8/8.1 both 32/64 bit as well as Apple Mac OS 9.x/10 Chrome OS and Linux. The ease of use was well thought through, simply plug in the drives, a couple of clicks and the unit does the rest.
The overall speed is just a bit slower than expected but in the balancing act of speed, ease of use and cost, I give this product an excellent review in walking that line.
In the box:
-SATA HDD Duplicator Dock
-USB 3.0 Cable
-eSATA Cable
-Universal Power Adapter (NA/UK/EU)
-Instruction Manual
-SATA HDD Duplicator Dock
-USB 3.0 Cable
-eSATA Cable
-Universal Power Adapter (NA/UK/EU)
-Instruction Manual
I received this product in exchange for an unbiased review.
Written by a customer while visiting startech.com
Customer Rating
4
Easy to use Duplicator Dock
on December 30, 2016
Posted by: Tazbier3
When typing in the part number to review the dock I also saw the other options Startech makes like the 4 bay Hard Drive docking station.
The information panel on the Drive is easy to use and well thought out. Showing source and target and what percent is done. On the outside of the white box packaging, I saw a label VI so my guess is this is the 6th generation of the Duplicator and improvements have been made each time the Duplicator was redesigned and engineered. The rubber feet on the bottom are a nice addition so it will not slide even on a slightly inclined surface.
Written by a customer while visiting startech.com
Customer Rating
5
Does what they say!
on November 29, 2016
Posted by: AnkorJuglor
I bought this little box some time ago now when I needed to replace a HDD which had become too cluttered with all my photos. I bought at the same time a Seagate Hybrid Hdd/SSD of 1TB. Stuck both drives in the unit as instructed, switched on and in no time at all I had cloned the 1TB Hybrid with all my data, put it into my laptop and was back on with my toes hardly touching the ground!!!
Written by a customer while visiting startech.com
Customer Rating
4
Nice stuff but little bit slow
on May 31, 2016
Posted by: Konstantin
Its nice if you works with HDDs and SSDs. Just plug in and done. You can see all the data of multiple HDDs and copy them between them. I'm satisfied. But about duplication, it is a little slower that i was thinking. Did clone HDD to another one of 500 GBs and its took about 2 with half hours...
If i was using some desktop with 2 disks, both connected over SATA III, it was going be done in 30 minutes. So, its good for duplication when you what to make 2 clicks and start duplicate and going to deal with another things, but not for extreme fast cloning. (If you planning to deploy large environments, or class room).
If i was using some desktop with 2 disks, both connected over SATA III, it was going be done in 30 minutes. So, its good for duplication when you what to make 2 clicks and start duplicate and going to deal with another things, but not for extreme fast cloning. (If you planning to deploy large environments, or class room).
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