Customer Ratings & Reviews

Works as advertised. No complaints. Easy to use, Would purchase again.

Easy to use , good price , worked perfectly, bootable

Laptop would not work. Blank screen. Purchased this, removed hard drive, plugged hard drive into this and then the reader into my new Comp. Saved ALL my files, Pictures etc etc. What a lifesaver. Very easy to use also. You won't be disappointed.

Summary: Got the Insignia 2-bay USB-to-SATA 3.5"/2.5" HDD docking station new from Best Buy. It is one of the few 2-bay USB-to-SATA 3.5" capable docks without the "offline duplication" feature (a feature I did not want). The dock actually worked mostly OK (in linux), but the eject button for bay 2 was stuck, so the quality of the plastic construction is questionable and I had to return it. Detailed description: The dock worked mostly OK in linux with the UAS driver (SMART features and SCSI mode pages were mostly accessible). Performance was good, with the data transfer rate reaching full SATA speed (3Gbps) for my 16TB 3.5" HDD. Best-Buy does not specify chipsets (key information for USB-to-SATA docks), but in linux I saw that the dock's USB-to-SATA bridge chipset was Intrinsix/MAYA NS-PCHDEDS19, vendor:product == 0x0578:0x0578 (the dock also comes with a VIA labs chipset USB hub, but I did not use/test it). There were some issues (non-critical) with this USB-to-SATA bridge chipset; e.g., some of the power condition page information were reported incorrectly, and the dock seemed to reset the standby timer of any SATA HDD upon power up! But I could manually configure and set standby timeout from the host machine, so this was something I could live with. The show-stopper for me was the plastic construction of questionable quality: Bay 1 and its eject button worked fine, but the Bay 2 eject button was stuck (won't operate properly) even though the dock was brand new. I wanted better quality and so had to return it. Recommendation: Should you buy it? It depends. The electronics is decent and you may be able to live with the construction quality (possibly mine just happened to be a lemon, so it may work fine generally). I needed to put a couple of 16TB high end 3.5" HDDs totaling 32TB+ at $600+, so did not want to take a chance. Bottom line: A good design with questionable construction quality.

It is best solution for take your memories under control

It could be smaller and there are cheaper versions available but overall it did its job perfectly. Build qaulity felt a little cheap but overall solid device great for those craving storage without cracking open their computer. Worth mentioning you’ll have to create a partition for it

Best drive docking station I've purchased and yet it saved my life on recovering old data I had on drives that didn't seem to connect on my newly bought PC via a data cable adapter. I'd recommend this to anyone who has old SSDs or SATA drives lying around and need their property restored. :)

Perfect for taking old hard drives from PCs and Laptops, it makes it easier. Simply to use and now i can throw those big box computers taking up space in my closet.

Whenever a PC dies I make it a point of pulling the hard drive. There is a ton of data left from the last generation that can be moved to a new PC and this device makes it THAT MUCH EASIER. Plug and play. Plug the cable from the reader to the PC and plug in your old hard drive and voila! Move your files to their new home with a drag and drop and be back in business that much faster!

I have only used this on one drive so far, but I was able to get what I wanted off of it. The drive was even from a broken laptop.

Got the job done, and was very quick in doing so. Would recommend.

We had several old laptops laying around that wouldn't boot up or had electrical problems. We were able to use this to transfer our pictures and other important files. Very easy to use, just plug in and insert drive. Computer reads the drive like it's a zip drive. Just select and copy files and your done.

My computer crashed and I was afraid I had lost all my files. I got this and set my old internal hard drive in one port, and a new sdd card in the other port and what files were on the old drive I was able to copy them onto my new ssd card.

Bought this to take the hard drive out of my daughter's old computer so that all of her old computer's data would be available on her new computer

Need to back up a system before making changes, changing to an SSD, or turning a system over to the kids? This external USB to SATA/HDD interface makes the backup task straightforward and as simple as the task can be. Works with Windows or Macs, laptops or desktops. Bring your own system moving software, though. But a solid piece of hardware. Five star!

slightly unstable with 1 drive in it but it works as it should

This docking station works great and is easy to use. I had a dead laptop and a dead pedestal computer. I removed the hard drives and this docking station let be copy to files onto my new laptop. Much easier than I thought it would be.

I had a drive not being read by my desktop, and wanted to try a drive bay to see if it made a difference. I picked up this drive bay, plugged it in, and it spun up my drive like it was a portable HDD/SSD. No complaints.

I look forward to use the for the first time. Been to busy to connect it.

2-Bay HDD docking station is a great tool for anyone needing to recover or transfer data from old drives to a new storage device. Highly recommended.