FIDECO Hard Drive Docking Station, USB 3.0 SATA HDD Docking Station for 2.5 and 3.5 inch SATA HDD SSD, Dual Bay, Support Offline Clone

Exactly what I needed as I dont have enough space left in my PC for more HDDs or SSDs. Both slot easily in and I could transfer my info quickly off in to my new computer. Worth having one around if you have too many old HDDs and SSDs.

Works perfectly fine, I saw some negative reviews saying the top cover can become scratched but I am using a 2.5 and a 3.5 and no scratches so far, there's tape on the lip area, I keep mine on though for protection, I have a total of 1.5tb, works amazing, works on Xbox series S and presumably X, just literally plug in and play, averaging around 500mbps transfer speed from my old HDDs which is great

This docking station is very straightforward to set up. Drives slot in securely and are recognised by the computer almost instantly. Transfer speeds are solid for USB 3.0 and make it useful for backing up data, cloning drives, or recovering files from an old HDD or SSD. The build quality is good for the price. It feels stable on the desk and does not wobble when inserting or removing drives. Heat dissipation is decent, although mechanical drives can get a little warm during long transfers, which is normal. Overall, a convenient and reliable tool for anyone who works with multiple drives or wants easy access to old storage without installing them inside a PC. Good value and does exactly what it claims.

I do a lot of video editing for corporate video/ads/weddings/family videos and have always worked on iMacs. The cost of the hardware was becoming ridiculous, limiting in options and it was time to switch to PC based (you can build an awesome editing machine for a fraction of the price of Mac stuff and run it with DaVinci resolve [free] for an amazing system). Was trying to access and rescue data off older Mac drives using a PC. I only had old FREECOM drop in bays with eSata, firewire connections for this that connected to my older now dead iMac. The cables for eSata were ludicorusly priced and basically just buying old junk that's obsolete. So I looked for a new drop in bay and found this.... USB 3.2, excellent. For less than the cost of a crappy eSata cable too. It comes with everything you need, power supply, USB cable. A little bit tight to drop the drives in, the gappage could be half a millimetre wider and the drives tend to catch on the edges. No biggie. Other than that, fired it up and everything connected instantly great stuff. Of course, a PC won't read Mac drives natively, but get hold of the very excellent FREE piece of software called HFSExplorer (catacombae.org), run this and you will then be able to view the tree, select and load file system, and then browse and extract files to your PC drive no issues. I've used this bay and the software to rescue and bring over hundreds of project video files, some family vids in ancient old AVI format etc. without any issues. Then use Handbrake (free) to upgrade near lossless to proper MP4 archive quality pristine HD files and bobs your uncle. It's a winner.

Quality item well made. Works well even with a corrupted drive allowing them to be saved onto another PC.

What a fabulous kit this is. Plugged it into my PC, placed two SSD's and woosh, there they are on my screen, formatted the drives, it was so easy. I strongly recommend this FIDECO Docking Station.

Product works well but bear in mind instructions poor and if using windows you will need a data recovery app to access the external docked drive it’s not simply plug and play . Not for the technically faint hearted

Should have taken note of reviewer "edezzie" claming it ruined their hard drives. They are correct. Same issue. WIndows 11. Worked fine then 2 good disks suddenly stopped being accessible. RAW in Windows. Windows also showed one of themh as as SSD and not HDD. After realising it was the dock, I got out an old USB2.0 bridge cable and connected the drives to that. 1 of the previously rubbished drives became accessible. Fixed. Working. The other no longer useable. I really cannot stress enough to be cautious with this. I suspect the power supply and chipset are both the problem with some drives. I am returning it. Regret this purchase and the time taken to realise what was killing my drives (Seagate Barracudas and Western Digital Blues). Also, it doesn't seem to want to work with mixed drives. So SSD in one slot and a HDD in the other. Definitely wouldn't clone a disk I needed to clone, well not in that combination (SSD > HDD). I ended up imaging the SSD with Macrium Reflect free and then from windows applying the image to a new disk with the Macrium software. This product should state what chipset it uses and the actual capabilities with regards to mixing drive technologies. That is, whether it supports both SSD and HDD simultaneously. I wouldn't have purchased it if i had this information beforehand.

Nice device, haven't had any issues with it. I like that the switch is on the unit instead of the cable. NOTE: If you have drive that was formatted with GPT on a Nexstar or similar device from about 10 years ago, it isn't compatible. If you want to save the data, you will need to get a new drive, format it with the Fideco with GPT, plug in your Nexstar as well and transfer the data to the new drive. There is no way to convert the Nexstar's GPT to the newer GPT used by these disk devices today. If you don't need to save the data, you can use Minitool Partition Wizard to delete the entire partition and create a new/clean GPT partition. If you have a drive smaller than 2TB, you don't need to worry as it can still use MBR and can still be read by the device.

Excellent build quality. Working perfectly. Excellent data transfer speed

Wonderful product

Drive reader works great gets the job done at reasonable speeds. The product is also small enough to fit into most places making storage easy.

Installation et utilisation très aisée.