USB 3.0 to SATA External Hard Drive Lay-Flat Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD, SSD [Support UASP] (EC-DFLT)

This thing works wonders on my 256 GB seadisk hard drive from a computer that the motherboard failed on many many years ago. I must say this first because at first I did not think it worked because it would not go into it. What I did have to do is remove the adapter that comes off of the front side that plugs into the computer itself. After you do that more than likely it will go in just as designed because most laptops have adapter pins specific to their branding or whenever it was made. I did have to remove the outer shell which had the mounting screws in it to slide in and I hook the power supply up as well as plugged it right into the USB and it started reading everything flawlessly. I can't speak on anything further than this because that is the only hard drive I have tried but initially I thought it was a botched attempt to manipulate words because it says all hard drives from 2.5 in to 3.5 in less than 20 TB. Again once I pulled the plastic adapter piece off of the front of the hard drive where it would go into the computer it slid right in just fine and started to read immediately. Basically you can turn a failed computer hard drive into an external or if you cannot gain access to that computer any longer because the motherboard has failed or something along those lines use this and you can recover everything just the same ways you would see it on the computer you were using without any extra software

Perfect USB3 to SATA HDD dock. Easy to use and works out of the box!

I bought the Sabrent ED-DFLT enclosure so that I could format various hard drives on my iMac. It's a rather long story, which I'll shorten to this: I confirmed that the Sabrent enclosure worked when I received it by using an old 2TB drive. I then tossed the box and waited for my 6TB Western Digital Caviar Green drive to arrive from Amazon a couple of weeks later. When plopped into the Sabrent, the new drive showed up on my Mac's desktop. I then set about creating a large encrypted disk image on the drive. It chugged away for 4 full days, seemingly working for the first 3. But after day 4, the formatting was clearly hung, and it had taken my Mac down with it. Upon rebooting, the drive no longer showed up at all. Disk Utility could not even see it. After a lot of detective work, too long to describe here, I confirmed that the 6TB drive was still working fine, but the Sabrent logic board had died, obviously a case of infant mortality. The good news: it can handle large capacity hard drives. The bad news: not for very long... And of course, since I tossed the boxing, there is no returning the Sabrent. I therefore spent $23 on a brick, although it won't break me. This case of infant mortality is probably just a fluke, but an annoying one when it happens to you. I should have kept the box a while longer. My bad. UPDATE 1/2118: To Sabrent's great credit, and this is going back about 2.5 years ago, they stepped in and replaced the enclosure, no charge. I tested it but ran into issues trying to do the above formatting again, and threw it on my junk pile. With hindsight, I'm now realizing that the issue was most likely the hard drive I was using, which I got by ripping open a Western Digital external hard drive and removing it. There's something odd about the firmware in these drives. They're just "not right" when taken out of their manufacturer's shell and fully exposed like this. I think my issue was the hard drive, and NOT Sabrent. Coupled with their excellent customer service, I've now increased the rating to five stars. Because ... I just bought some 8TB Hitachi hard drives and it was time to format them, again with encryption. These are new, bare hard drives from Amazon, not something I ripped out of an external HD box! Fortunately, I still had the Sabrent enclosure, so I pulled one off the pile, attached the 12V/1.5A power adapter to it, put the 8TB drive in, connected to my Mac Mini, and just like that, the hard drive mounted on the desktop. I formatted it in HFS+, then created a new encrypted disk image, and let it run. This time, all went well. I discovered that if you open Sierra's Activity Monitor and click on Disk Activity, you get a readout of how fast the data is moving across the interface. I was seeing it move between 110 - 160 MB/sec, averaging about 130 MB/sec. That's not bad at all on my 2012 iMac with a 4-core i7 processor running Sierra (12.6). It's not the fastest i7 there is, so you have to remember that there are calculations that first have to be made before the data can be spit out of the USB3 ports for writing. That takes time to execute, which has to slow transfers down somewhat. USB of any speed never hits its theoretical maximum anyway (4.8Gbps for USB3, or about 600 MB/sec). Considering I was getting only 25 MB/sec with USB2 on this same machine (theoretical maximum speed = 60 MB/sec), actual speeds are less than theoretical speeds by about the same factor for each version of USB. The full 8TB of writing took 17 hours, which averages out to 130 MB/sec, consistent with what I see in Activity Monitor. I would say that's pretty good. I'm happy. Side note: I got to wondering about Sabrent's advice to run a firmware update. I'm a Mac guy, but I have an old PC running XP. I thought I would take a stab at the upgrade. I downloaded it to the PC, but the update would not run at all. You tell it to RUN the update and nothing happens. My neighbor has a PC running Windows 10, so I took the dock, power supply, and a USB cable to his place. He downloaded the update to his PC, followed the .pdf instructions exactly, the interface presented is NOT what the .pdf shows, but tried running it anyway. Same issue: hit the RUN button and nothing happens. It doesn't freeze or anything like that. It simply does nothing. So much for that! The key point I'm making is that this same dock that I bought 2.5 years ago (August 2015) easily sees my 8TB drives, runs flawlessly, and runs quite fast, all with no firmware update whatsoever. I don't understand Sabrent's statement that older docks (2.5 years old?) without an update are limited to 4TB. Not mine! I do not understand why other commenters can't get it to work right. It works perfectly for me. Considering Sabrent's great customer support, excellent USB3 performance, full support for an 8TB drive, and it's very low price, I gotta give it 5 stars! UPDATE 1/30/2018: Plugging into two different iMacs running Snow Leopard (10.6.8), neither can see any drive plugged into it. Odd, since at one time it could/did. I don't know what the difference is, but if you're running Snow Leopard, you might consider passing on the Sabrent. UPDATE 2/12/2018: Okay, so the Sabrent isn't happy with Snow Leopard. Separately, I plugged the Sabrent into my 2012 Mac Mini w/i7 processor and running Sierra (12.6). I plugged a second, different external USB3 drive enclosure to another port, loaded a pair of 8TB X300 Toshiba hard drives in each, and proceeded to move data from one drive to the other. Measured speed is about 130 MB/sec, which is about max transfer rates that these hard drives can deliver. No complaints!

Works well, wires are long enough, and the case is nice. Wish there was an option to turn off the LED light though

My old laptop pc died, one too many falls to the floor. I needed the files on the drive so I took apart the pc and rescued the hard drive from it. I didn't know what type the drive so took a chance and ordered an enclosure last night just before midnight. It was here by 6am this morning. The harddrive slid right in. I connected it to the computer (usb) plugged it in a it works wonderfully. Ive only had it for a few hours but it's working great. Up and working in 10 minutes. Great! Now if I could access my old onedrive cloud files on my new pc, I'd be a happy camper.

Works great! Easy to use. Takes up a bit of desk space but nothing to terrible. Definitely recommend if you have an old drive laying around

The dock does its job perfectly well, with two small drawbacks. 1. As it is connected with an USB cable, there are several systemic limitations in operations one could perform with an HDD connected on a SATA port, but this is unavoidable 2. The HDDs are getting quite warm and there is no ventilation or any other cooling mechanism whatsoever; a wee fan would be useful. Overall, the device looks tidy and professional, and does its job (already deep-scanned like 20 disks - no issues encountered), so 5/5 stars.

システムのバックアップには最適です。排熱も問題ないと思いますが、最近は気温が高いのでそのへんは各自調整していくのが良いでしょう。なにより、引っ越しソフトウェアがダウンロード可能なのが良好。使いながらレビュー追加していきます。

Si vous retrouvez des vieux disques et les utiliser, vous devez les placer dans un ordinateur, avec cet appareil vous pouvez directement les utiliser , sans montage, il suffit de soulever le couvercle et de placer le disque et allumer. Les transferts de données sont rapides, il fonctionne à la perfection sous Linux.

Excellent drive bay

Ho acquistato questa docking station Sabrent per recuperare alcuni dati da vecchi hard disk che avevo nel cassetto e devo dire che fa esattamente quello che promette, senza complicazioni. ​Prestazioni e Facilità d'uso: La cosa migliore è la semplicità: è un dispositivo Plug & Play a tutti gli effetti. Basta inserire il disco (che sia un SSD da 2.5" o un HDD meccanico da 3.5"), collegare il cavo USB 3.2 e il PC lo riconosce all'istante. Supportando il protocollo UASP, le velocità di trasferimento sono ottime e stabili, ideali per spostare grandi quantità di GB senza attese infinite. ​Design e Qualità Costruttiva: A differenza di altre docking station "aperte", questa ha un design orizzontale molto stabile. La scocca è in plastica robusta e il meccanismo di inserimento è fluido. Apprezzo molto il LED di stato che indica l'attività del disco, così evito di scollegarlo mentre sta ancora lavorando. ​Perché sceglierla: È lo strumento ideale per chi fa manutenzione ai PC o semplicemente vuole trasformare un vecchio hard disk interno in un'unità esterna in pochi secondi. Non scalda eccessivamente e non richiede driver particolari. ​Pro: ​Compatibile con dischi da 2.5 e 3.5 pollici. ​Velocità USB 3.2 (supporta UASP). ​Stabile sulla scrivania e semplicissima da usare. ​Contro: ​Il cavo USB in dotazione è buono, ma avrei preferito fosse leggermente più lungo per una gestione dei cavi più pulita. ​In sintesi: Un accessorio indispensabile da avere nel kit di ogni smanettone. Rapporto qualità-prezzo eccellente, come spesso accade con i prodotti Sabrent.