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Thermaltake - BlacX Duet Hard Drive Enclosure Docking Station - Black
Thermaltake - BlacX Duet Hard Drive Enclosure Docking Station - Black
Read and write to two 2.5" or 3.5" SATA hard drives or solid state drives at once with this Thermaltake BlacX ST0014U-C docking station, which offers a hot-swappable design to ensure rapid file transfers via the USB interface.
 
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Complete Junk
on March 26, 2017
Posted by: TheMeh
With all the reviews online I figured it would suit my needs and seemed to have stable firmware. Most of the complaints I've seen are about OS recognition of devices. What I didn't manage to see, until now, was that this item is notorious for being defective. I was able to use both drives at once, after I did some raid settings, and I managed to read drives up to 2TB, you can't see anymore with this model. I used this for backups and clones for system builds using Acronis. Only, the fun didn't last very long. After two months of use the LEDs quit working and my OS(s) would have trouble staying connected to the duet. I did some exhaustive tests on multiple devices and cables and it simply was the unit failing. In the third month the unit would spin up the drives but that was it. Nothing else seemed to work. I put a voltage meter on it and the voltage was irregular and that's when I noticed brown spots on the PCB. Apparently the PCB was defective and just burned itself out. Now I know why they did such a quick release on the 5G release after this model was failing! Tried to contact Thermaltake for the 3yr warranty but that was hopeless.
My Best Buy number: 3511551061
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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Thermaltake - BlacX Duet Hard Drive Enclosure Docking Station - Black
Thermaltake - BlacX Duet Hard Drive Enclosure Docking Station - Black
Read and write to two 2.5" or 3.5" SATA hard drives or solid state drives at once with this Thermaltake BlacX ST0014U-C docking station, which offers a hot-swappable design to ensure rapid file transfers via the USB interface.
 

Can this be used to clone a new SSD to replace an existing laptop HHD?

Yes, I was using it to clone systems using Acronis software. I can't vouch for any other software nor any drives over 2TB. Just be careful with this unit. It is notorious for losing connection to the the host machine with a lot of data transfer and mine completely failed after 3 months of use.
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