Customer Ratings & Reviews

I am converting from my 12 year old desktop to a new much more powerful laptop. As such I had a couple of 3.5 inch sata drives I wanted to have easy access to from the laptop. This fit the bill perfectly and recommend. I don't swap out the drives much but Windows picks them up easily when I do. Just press the "eject" button for the drive you want to remove and out it comes. Windows 10 also shows the drives as removable. Also I tried using a 2.5 inch sata SSD and it was picked up easily. In testing speed for this drive I basically got the same from docking station or USB 3.0 direct connection. No real issues except it does need to be plugged into AC for power and no feedback when docking a drive - no "click", etc. Overall this is exactly what I was looking for. I recommend as an easy solution whether you are wanting to expand your space or use to copy/make backups of system drives.

works great, unable to use a desktop currently so been using a laptop instead and this was just what I needed for some of the extra storage drives collecting dust in my desktop that are getting use again.

Great quality it works out of the box easy to use .

Works well, nice that it works with both 3.5 and 2.5 inch drives. Only minor annoyance is that the product requires plugging in for power, but it comes with a long enough cord to not be a problem. Fun popping hard drives out like a toaster when done

Works perfectly for wiping old drives. Simple and easy to use.

It does exactly what I wanted it to do. I am using it to hold backup disks for my server. I can easily put two disks in the dock and have backups go to each disk. It's easy to remove the current disks in swap in other disks so that I can keep multiple generations of backups. It is USB 3.0, so the backups go quickly.

It works very well; I have quite a few Hard Drives and it helps move things around from on drive to another very easily. It is a bit thinner than I would like but it works very well for the money.

So good i'm buying another one very fast transfer speeds from any 2.5" or 3.5" Drive with no problem

My home office online data storage has grown to 30TB. This docking station gave me a way to analyze and salvage data from a box full of retired drives from old machines and to have removable drives for backups of my C:\Data\* directory from my laptop. By adding a USB docking strip I can also mount several USB external drives for storage of various data collections such as scanned and digital pictures, ripped digital music, and a digital billing statement and financial data archive with data as much as 80 years old.

The docking station work fine, very good buy a nice tool to have we rate is item 5 Star

I've bought two of these before for back-up solutions for freeing up memory for my wife's pc and my own and they work amazing for the ssd 2.5mm laptop hard drives. never had any issues with the transfer rates or power. best 1st refurbish device I've every gotten from best buy before. takes up little space and is perfect.

I have a few HDD and SSD around the house, but I didn’t have a way to use them until now. Since I had some rewards available, I ended paying half of the price. It is really easy to set up and use, not brainer. I hooked two of my HDD, a 2.5 and a 3.5 and they worked very well. It use a USB 3 connector which is not the faster on the market,but it does the job. I am very happy with my purchase.

It's a great product does what it claims, however I seem to have an issue with one of the software programs I use, Minitool Partition Wizard. Whenever the station is on and I try to load the minitool software the program hangs. When I turn the station off the program completes the upload. I then turn the station on, the drives are read by the minitool program. I also use EaseUs Partition Master and I don't have any problems at all. Both programs are free and I am using two Seagate 500GB Momentus drives I remove from a GOFLEX and a Slim Portable cases.

Easy to use and very useful in transferring data from old computer

You need something to cover it to prevent the dust from getting into an exposed internal hard drive (design flaw). We went to Home goods store to pick up a square clear plastic container to invert & place on top of Insignia 2 Bay docking station. We can access our old/new drives & use them as external storage. Very nice!!!! Be creative! Works like a charm & we reusing the old hard drives!

This unit is what I needed to get old photos and documents from my old hard drives!!! This pictures are great!

Quick, easy and inexpensive way to download or upload from both laptop and desktop hard drives. I have a stack of unused family computers going back almost 30 years and this is docking station is allowing me to easily extract photos and documents for the family history. Works on both mechanical and solid-state hard drives. A bargain !

I recently bought this for the reasons of reformatting a few old drives I had around. I tried some of the cheap cable type transfer items but they did not do it quickly nor did they want to work with win 10 half the time. This one fit the bill perfectly and works great.

Very nice product. I was able to clone a drive using this and it worked perfectly! Its also great for formatting or wiping drives as well! Works with 3.5 inch drives or 2.5 inch drives. Its a great portable tool to grab on the way to a client location too. I like the fact that it has an on off switch on the back of the unit too so you can safely disconnect drives. One thing to be aware of, it does have a little bit of play when you connect the drives so if you get one just be sure that the drives are seated straight and snug. Also , even though it resembles a two slice toaster the drives will not 'pop' out when they are done toasting. You have to push the button to pop them out!

This little beauty is a LIFE SAVER! I was able to transfer all my necessary data and media from my old hard drive directly to my new laptop with ease! Works great with desktop hard-drive as well! THANKS BEST BUY!!!