Thermaltake - Dual Bay Docking Station for Most Internal SATA Hard Drives

Great product when it comes to cloning hard drives, is very reliable and fast transferring.

I bought this model instead of the single drive which I needed because it was on sale for the same price. I seems to be just as fast with one drive installed, but is noticeably slower with two drives. I had to clone a TiVo drive to replace one that had gone bad, so I used this instead of opening the computer. With two drives it WILL take a much longer time over the single eSATA cable. If you use the external drive in a permanent configuration I recommend a full enclosure with a fan. If it is just to read or write data / format a drive to put into a different system this is the way to go.

I purchased this to recover data files from the hard drive of my old computer that suddenly stopped working (and could not be fixed!). I plugged it into my new computer and now I have all my files! I was planning to transfer the files from my old computer to my new computer anyway, but this made it so much easier. It will also work for a laptop drive, but I haven't tried it. It is easy to use - just plug it in and insert your hard drive. The only difficult part for some people might be removing your hard drive from your computer (the tech guy at Best Buy took mine out for me when he tested my computer, but it's not too difficult to do it yourself). I would highly recommend using it for data transfer when you get a new computer!

I bought this and 2 x 1.5TB HDs just to do all my backups of my different computers. I have also used this to clone HDs while doing upgrades to my older systems. I have also used this to help my friends recover data from computers that had failures other than HDs bringing back valuable files. This is a must have for any casual computer nerd!

I bought this to transfer files from my sister in law's computer (which would not turn on) to her new computer. I know very little about the inner workings of computers, but I do know enough to get myself in trouble. Fortunately, this was so easy to use, I had no problems. Just removed the hard drive from the dead computer, plugged it into the docking station, and plugged in the USB. It worked just like any external drive (or flash drive). So happy I was able to recover the files!

This is one of the best duplicators I have ever used that wasn't commercial. This is a must for anybody wanting to upgrade their hard drive or just want to make an exactly copy of there hard drive on another drive. Very easy to use. My nieces laptops hard drive was failing and would only boot one out of twenty times. I took her hard drive and made an exact clone in about an hour, installed new clone hard drive in her laptop and puff. Good as new.

use all of your hard drives from from your upgrades or older machines. no need for a enclosure, just insert the drive, 3.5 or 2.5 or both depending on which model you purchased.

Well, for the most part it does what it's supposed to do, but I had two hard drives that I was able to access before using this dock and now I can not access either of them. I can still use it on other HDs but I think part of the "Hot Swap" feature did not work correctly and now I have two dead drives. There were no real instructions on how to properly turn on or dismount the HDs. I would still buy it again as it does make moving data across different HDs much easier.