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StarTech.com - USB 3.1 Hard Drive Docking Station - Black
Average customer rating
2.5
(2 Reviews)
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Customer Reviews for StarTech.com - USB 3.1 Hard Drive Docking Station - Black
Customer Rating
4
Fast simple hard drive doc
on October 15, 2017
Posted by: NickD_CA27
I have been using this hard drive dock for a few weeks and it has been working well using multiple SATA hard drives.
The hard drive dock comes in a box the size of video game controller. The power adaptor included comes with several different ends to connect it in many different countries. The doc includes cables for USB-A, USB-C and eSATA but they are all very short. I was not able to put the dock on top of my desk because all of the cables are too short to reach the computer under my desk. Currently the dock sits on the floor until I get a longer cable to connect it. The dock has a power button/light which is blue with power and flashes red during disk activity. Hard drives slide in to the dock easily but don't "click" in like other docks I have used.
The dock has a USB-B 3.1 connector on the back which you can use with either the USB-A or USB-C cables. I found that when using the USB-C cable I was getting mixed results with the computer. After changing drives in the dock the drives would sometimes freeze or lock up during read or write operations. When I used the included USB-A cable, I had no problems with this dock at all.
This hard drive dock works well and data transfers maintain fast stable speeds. I received this product in exchange for an unbiased review.
Written by a customer while visiting startech.com
Customer Rating
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usb 3.1 docking station
on January 26, 2025
Posted by: pete 059
In your specs you write that it can support disks up to 16Tb, but my Mac gives an error message.
However, if I replace it with a 6Tb disk, it works.
Really frustrating!!!
However, if I replace it with a 6Tb disk, it works.
Really frustrating!!!
Response from startech.comBy Lukas, Customer Support, January 28, 2025
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review for our SDOCKU313. We are sorry to hear that you experienced difficulty with SDOCKU313 as this is not expected behavior for our drive dock. It has been tested with SATA drives up to 16TB and would be expected to work with 16TB drives. Our Technical Advisors will be reaching out to you shortly.
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