Customer Ratings & Reviews

Very easy to use and the program associated with is very easy to download and work. I was able to seemlessly install a new hard drive.

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.

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 bought this because I had an old computer with obsolete hardsware, but the hard drive was fine, and I wanted to use it as external storage for my newer computer. This was simple to connect, and it works perfectly!

Very good desktop hard drive dock station! Easy to use and install. Affordable price on Best Buy!

Very easy to use. Had a Sata Hard drive from and old pc and wanted to format it and use as a backup drive. This enclosure made that process very simple. Installed my hard drive into enclosure, connected to computer with usb cable and was able to format drive and use it as a backup of important files.

East to use. Any extra SATA drives can be switched out to use for extra storage. Lid might be easily broken if not carefree opening and closing.

Easy to set up. Works great. I use it with an old SATA drive to back up my computer and store pictures without having to spend money on cloud services.

Outstanding! Worked easily and as described. Download the software, plug it in and a few clicks later my drive was cloned.

Did the trick that I wanted it to do. I think I would purchase this again.

Works great. Exactly what I needed, works as described. User friendly

Works perfectly, great to have for hd you have around

Very useful for retrieving old files on old computer

Easy to load, easy to connect, and easy to use. Love it!

Works good. Easy to set up and use. Price was good too.

Great for a backup drive that you will have on you desk for extended period of time. And if the disk ever fails, swapping it is super easy.