Customer Ratings & Reviews

This Sabrent docking station for SATA hard drives is so useful for retrieving files from an old hard drive or to use a hard drive as a backup drive for my files!

My use case was pretty simple. I was doing a refresh of the drives in my 4-bay home NAS, and I needed a dock that would let me do burn-in testing on the new drives (WD Red Plus 4TB) before I installed them in the NAS. I'm a Linux user (Mint 20.3), so it was important, too, that the device work with the testing tools I was using, smartctl and badblocks. I am happy to say the Sabrent Docking Station for SATA Drives met those requirements, with no drama whatsoever. Installation is so easy it's barely worth mentioning. Just plug the accompanying USB cable from the dock to a USB 3 port on your computer (the port I used was a USB 3.2 gen 1), and provide power to the unit using the included power adapter and cable. Since I was only testing 3.5" drives, I just slid the drive into the unit's tray, made sure the drive was snug to the SATA connector, and hit the power button. The unit is supposed to work with 2.5" SATA drives, too, but I did not use that capability. lsusb identifies the dock as a JMicron JMS561U two-port SATA-to-USB bridge. smartctl was able to perform short, conveyance, and long SMART tests on the docked drive using basic parameters, i.e., "smartctl -t long /dev/sdc". badblocks worked as it should, completing a four-pass destructive read-write test on a 4TB drive in about 56 hours (~160MB/sec throughput). Semi-pro tip: leave the plastic door on the unit open while the drive is powered on. This unit has no active cooling, so heat buildup can be an issue if the docked drive is in use. As far as I'm concerned, this was thirty bucks well-spent, especially since the alternative was swapping the drives I wanted to test in and out of my desktop machine.

Exceptional product by all means. I ordered a Seagate 22 terabyte drive and found its installation a little choppy. Formatting the drive through the USB connection as an external drive requires DOS skills. To put it mildly, it was disappointing to learn that Seagate no longer places phone numbers on its products for support. It was also unpleasant to receive a reminder from Seagate support after calling their number in order to remember the necessary DOS commands. Like most things that have become institutions over individuals, Seagate has joined this crowd. The operation of this device is exceptional; again, leave the plastic cover open when in use to release some of the heat since this device does not have fans or cooling systems. It's rather unusual plug for the USB 3 The attached 22 terabyte hard drive does not follow a reasonable power demand from this device, which initially caused the drive to realign its spindles when the power curve dropped too low. Despite this, the device's exceptional reliability comes from following power on top and data on bottom. A consistent power distribution or slightly underpowered Seagate drive and current case are not mentioned in the description, but I do wish it had mentioned their maximum power outage, which may not be 12 volts. It goes without saying that this is a small problem. Once the drive was working, it performed incredibly well. Using a unique USB 3 cable, I can transfer data at least 264 megabits per second. Though I doubt it would, I am tempted to find this unusual cable in a Gen. 2 times 2 format to see if speed improves.

Great value! I had on old desktop computer (15 years old, to be exact) that has not worked in several years but i knew it had some data on it that i wanted to retrieve at some point. Since it was a SATA hard drive, i purchased this item with the hope of being score to retrieve my data. I was not disappointed. Simple hook up and equally simple retrieval of data. I would recommend this to anyone in need of a product that will assist in data retrieval for a SATA hard drive.

I had 2TB HD for several years and my power cord went bad. So I purchased the New Case with the Power supply built in and works Great. Transfering it into the New Case was easy. It took 3 Minutes.

Had no issues with the drive, worked flawlessly grom the moment I connected it. Data transfer was a breeze! Been working now fir more than two months and still doong what I expected!

Works fairly well with my 8tb drive fast speeds when plugged into the correct USB slot on my laptop. Although if I let the drive sit unused for too long there can be delays in accessing the data again. The drive takes about 20-30 second to start working again after 5 or so minutes of rest. In rare cases, generally if I put the laptop into sleep mode without unplugging the drive, the laptop will be stuck in sleep mode and an emergency power off is required to get things working again.

Great dock for archiving data on multiple drives..

This was just what I needed to pull data off an old HD.

I am using this Sabrent to transfer information to my new computer

Works great, transfers at high speeds when connected to USB 3 port

this powered enclosure performs very well with a 1 TB sata 3.5 inch disk drive. it's quiet and sleek. it can be powered on and off via swith which makes it very convenient. data transfer is great too. excellent product and a great purchase.