Clone Dock HDD duplicator Disk Drive Hard Reader SATA Hard Drive Docking Station USB 3.0 SSD HDD Docking Station Dual Bay for 2.5 or 3.5inch HDD with Hard Drive Duplicator/Cloner 12 TB (Docking)

ASMedia chip makes it 5 * for me. The main review is in the next paragraph, some instructions and fine points follow. I have now owned this for 5 years and used it many times. Perfect performance with enough speed. I have used it for backup, and offline cloning. The documentation is not stellar but it's OK. The feel is solid; cables for power and USB seem snug in their sockets, but do not nudge them! The ASMedia chip has a good reputation, so I think ongoing operations will be smooth. I am using two 2TB enterprise HDDs, which tend to run a bit hotter than consumer drives. Using crystaldiskinfo and crystaldiskmark In a room about 20 degrees C., I am seeing temps below 32 degrees C during the most intense long duration use and benchmarking tests . Sequential read/write speeds from a screaming fast NVME SSD equipped computer are of about 190 and 400 MB/s on a USB 3.0 port. Disk to disk cloning is faster. I like this a lot! NEVER PLUG IN OR REMOVE A DRIVE INTO/FROM THIS DOCK WHILE ANOTHER DRIVE IS MOUNTED (through this dock) ON YOUR COMPUTER. It warns you about that in the friendly manual. TO USE AS DISK CLONER: DO NOT connect the USB cable!!!!!! 1: plug power into wall and dock and ensure that switch is OFF 2 insert BOTH drives making sure that you do not need the data on the target drive, 3: power on the dock, 4: press the not-so-accessible button on the back labeled start for three seconds and release, 5: briefly hit the same button and a tiny blue led at the bottom front of the unit (can be a bit hard to see) will flash under "25%". That led will go solid and the next one will flash (under 50%) as cloning progresses. When the 100% LED is solid, turn off switch and remove disks. FOR USE CONNECTED TO A COMPUTER (like backup or file transfer): 1: plug power into wall and dock and ensure that switch is OFF. 2: plug USB cord into host computer and dock, 3: plug drive(s) into slot(s) 4: power on the dock. In windows 7 I did typed disk into the computers search box (magnifying glass in taskbar), found the app to partition the new disk and used that app to initialize it. It automatically named with the disk manufacturer's name. To disconnect: 1. Use the "safely remove hardware" button in your taskbar, 2.: when you get an OK to remove notice, turn switch off, 3.: remove disks. 4.: Unplug power and USB. BTW to use the "safely remove hardware" button in the taskbar I had to go to "my computer", right click the disk, hit properties then policies, and optimize the particular drive for performance rather than for removal. In the default (optimized for removal) setting, the disconnect button in the taskbar did not work; when I tried, it always said the drive was in use.

I had a failing 2012 1TB 3.5” HDD in my HP ENVY 23- All in one. Missing boot drive, black screen of death stuff etc. i managed to get it to boot then it immediately froze and stopped. I ran diagnostics and the disk passed, so I scrambled to replace it before it died. I was going to use a disc cloning software like Macrium etc, but ran across the Cinolink and bought it so I didn’t have to use a computer, software, mess with drive slots and SATA cables etc. and do it offline instead which I’d never tried. Long story short it took 14 hours but I ended up with a perfect image/ clone 2TB SSD which works perfectly. Crisis averted and the computer is running better than new. I doubled the drive storage capacity also which you will have to allocate after the cloning process as no software was used to pre- set different volumes. Really happy with this very convenient device. I don’t mind waiting 14 hours either although the whole time I was wondering If it was going to fail. Ha! It didn’t and I’m back in business. Thanks. Update to this review. I have now used the Cinolink clone feature to clone 3 additional 500GB C drives which only took roughly 45 minutes to copy! Work perfectly also! Replacing all my old HDD boot. drives for faster SSD’s and the boot time performance of those PC’s is now way faster .

I have owned this docking station for about a month. It consistently fails during file copying. I am using usb 3.0. I have tried 3 different hard drives in this docking station and it fails 7 out of 10 tries. I have another docking station (nexstar) and when I use same usb cable and same usb 3.0 hub with same 3 hard drives it is flawless 10 out of 10 times. This unit looks and feels cheaply made, weighs maybe 1 oz. Strongly recommend staying away from this one. Update: Seller responded immediately to this feedback. They do stand behind their product and I was offered complete refund. I accepted and therefore I am changing the rating to 5 stars. I would do business with them again!

Works fine, some trouble with the manual where the "sourse" and "target" were misnamed so had to figer that out. Then it worked.

My hard drive was starting to get S.M.A.R.T. errors that it was about to crash. I have backup software, but it is tedious to use. I bought this device and after removing the hard drive, and putting it in the source slot and my new drive in the target slot, hit start for 3 seconds and then hit start one more time and in 5 hours I had a perfect copy of my drive that worked flawlessly. It saved me a lot of time and worry. Great item!!!

I didn’t know about this device, however now that I do it makes cloning drives so easy a Marine (me) could do it! Simple plug and play tech, no extra programming needed, set and forget effort and it cloned a 2T hard drive in 4-5 hours.

When I first used the device, the drive was not recognized by my computer. Looked to tech support and I couldn't find any. Not even sure who made the drive. So I fiddled with it, and it finally recognized the device after I turned it on and off several times real quick. Why that worked I have no idea, but I couldn't find any tech support to help me debug my issue. I was using it to read some old hard drives from my old XP tower computers. I did eventually get to those old files (pictures) I was trying to save.

This works great and is fast when plugged into a USB 3 port. I use it to boot to Linux Mint on my wife's Windows 10 work laptop. At first I couldn't get it to boot. I figured out that the laptop sees this as a usb drive (not as a sata drive) and wants the first partition to be in fat32 format. No problem. I just created a small fat32 partition for the bootloader/grub and then the rest of the drive is formatted for linux (I chose ext2 to limit read/writes) and it boots every time now. I had a couple of old sata drives lying around gathering dust and this is much cheaper than a good usb 3 drive. Buy it!

Feels very cheaply made.... but it did the trick. I bought a new PC and transfered files from old hard drives to the new big one.

did what i asked of it.