Hard Drive Docking Station(RSH-DS02)

I use this primarily with drives, but occasionally the USB3 and Card reader. I would post speed test results, but I lost it when I went to jail :-/ That being said, it would go up to 100MiB/s with the drives I was using it with, so it's making full use of the hardware and is not a bottleneck. I haven't tried the built-in cloner, but have cloned drives using "dd" before. I don't recall having any issues with the USB3.0 ports or the card reader, but don't recall thinking "finally a full speed device!" like I did with the HDD section, but I use cheap flash.

The docking feature is pretty much essential if you want to get on-hand access to large amounts of data. In this day and age, standard spinning-disk hard drives come with pretty reasonable cost per gigabyte and getting generous multi-terabytes of storage space doesn’t represent such a huge investment like in the past. While you keep those drives on hand, you can easily pop them in or out of the hard drive docking station according to your needs. Whether you want to clone your hard drive to SSD or require occasional access to bare drives, this RSHTECH dock is a dual-bay hard drive docking station that’s perfect for the job. With the super speed of the USB 3.0 interface, it’s ready to tackle all your needs quickly and efficiently. For a dual-bay model, it’s priced quite fairly in my opinion, considering its powerful abilities. I also really appreciated the fact that this dock uses a redesigned cloning technology which can copy your important files from one disk to another without the need for a computer. All you have to do is plug the hard drives together and keep the ”Copy” button pressed for a few seconds until you see the LED flashing. This means that the cloning process has started and to track the progress you can check the LED which has four stages from 25% to 50%, 75%, and finally to 100%. Keep in mind that when you're cloning your drive, the capacity of the B drive (target) should be larger/equal than the A drive (source). Overall, I am pretty happy with this purchase, and so far I haven't bumped into any technical issue with this dock.

The item shipped quickly by the seller and come in perfect condition. The box is well structured and inside the unit itself placed in a plastic bag, a warranty card and in a separated section the USB cable and a 100V - 220V switching power supply. Since there was no possibility to choose, it shipped with US plug. But, it is not a big problem because the unit can be used either in 110V or 220V. However, whatever I tried, I was not able to reach the 5Gbps transfer speed with the unit. However, a 3Gbps speed seems rock solid. Tested with multiple SSDs, HDD and SSHD. So, you can expect something around 370MBytes / sec read and write speed on the attached disks. (if you have fast disk enough of course...) Pros: - Plug & Play, no need to install, no tooling needed. - Nice design, completely fits in modern desktops. - Aluminimum frame - The lights not too strong, so it will not disturb you - micro SD and SDXC reader. However, in my case it was not super fast. ~35MB/sec. - Two additional USB3.0 connection with USB2 backward compatibility. So, you can use your older cam for example... - Good sticking, thin enough rubber feets - Comes with USB cable and power adaptor - Quality materials used Cons: - The SATA section can be dettached from the system only together. So, if you have two disks and wanted to change one, you should "drop off" both. - Do not try to plug an heavy, standard 7200RPM HDD while the unit is on... Most likely it will fail to start. Switch off, insert your HDD, switch on. - thin SSDs might not being hold tightly enough. - The SDXC reader showing only USB2.0 speed & device. In a scale of 1 to 10, I would give 8 or 9. The decvies is near perfect. If you are looking for an a good and stable device that not heating up and having multiple connectivity (micro sd, sdxc, 2 usb 3.0 ports and 2 SATA dock with capability to run 3.5" HDDs as well, this would be a good choice for you. If you are looking for a closed docking station for your disks, this might not be the best for you. Summarized the whole: It worth the money. The games running great and loading in really fast from the attached SSDs. Great value for the money, recommended product.

In The past, as my computer aged and replacement was necessary, days and days were required to bring it back up to where it was. Many thousands of dollars worth of programs were reinstalled, tested, and made right. Some programs were lost for various reasons and all of this time, effort, and money were required to keep what I had because the drive/s were iffy. With this little tool, I removed the drive that contained the 'C' volume and placed it in slot 'A', I put a new larger drive in slot 'B', and 6 1/2 hours later I put the new drive back in the computer, turned it on, and everything worked as before. I had an exact copy of the old drive on the new drive with an unassigned volume whose size equaled the difference between the two drives. A little work with the mini tool and everything was perfect. Very Happy

I’m pretty stoked on this HD reader. “Stoked on an HD reader?” You ask. Well yes I actually am. I normally use StarTech readers. And they work great. For about 6 months to a year. Then they break. Maybe it’s me.... I use these almost every day. I transition from WFH and WFO a lot. Even before the current pandemic. So I carry two 3 TB drives with me everyday Side bar: this is what my IT department thought was the best option for me. It’s not, but it’s what I have to work with. Now, why am i stoked on those reader. The main thing is the on/ off switch. I don’t want my home office to have a bright blue glow at all times. The StarTech does not have a switch, you have to unplug it to turn it off. And that’s a pain in the @£% when your desk is clean and routed they way you like it. Enter the RSHTech reader and BAM! One press of a button and no annoying glow! Moving on to other stoke features.... This is also a SD card reader and USB ports! One less single to use, or piece of junk to clutter my desk up. I love a clean workspace.... and I’m sure you do too. As far as tech specs, it can handle up to 12TB drives 2.5 and 3.5” drives and it can clone your drives for backup/ archiving. I think I paid about $150 for a StarTech that clones, and $80 for a straight drive reader. So it’s about 1/4 of the price and does more. Even if I only get 12 months out of it, it is 100% worth it and a money saver!

Writing this review from a phone, so it will be to the point. The dock initializes on and off for about 40 seconds for for staying on. That means your hard drives repeatedly turn on and off during those 40 seconds too (accompanied by the multiple Window Add Device sounds). This got me the " HardDrive X parameter is incorrect" error message for both of those 4TB drives within one month of owning this dock, and I could not open the drives. After running chkdsk from another dock (located here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D6L5CJF/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) and getting the drives accessible again, there was no folders in the drives but the spaces was still being used. While writing this review I am using O&O Recovery software in hopes to retrieve my data. Do not buy this dock. P.S. Every time I would plug in a new device (SD/TF card, USB drive, another Hard Drive) the entire dock would restart and go through the multiple initialization loop again. Stay away. Update: O & O Disk Recovery is truly the best recovery software on the planet and I was able to get back 98% of my files ( after 2 separate software runs ) with there original folders and file structure. It undid a lot of the damage caused by this dock, other than shortening the life of the drives due to the wear and tear caused by this dock's startup sequence. Secondly the FIDECO USB 3.0 to SATA Hard Drive Docking Station recommended above is superior in everyway. There is no damaging startup sequence, it has a smaller footprint, and you can insert SD/TF cards/ USB Drives and the dock won't have to restart. Unlike this dock which only allows single SD/TF card card to read at a time, the FIDECO dock allow both a SD card and a TF card to be inserted and read simultaneously. Best of all both docks are the same price ($38.99) but the FIDECO currently has a 5% off coupon on the Amazon page. This was a hard lesson to learn, but again stay away from this dock.

It's real nice. Found out why it wasn't working well; it needed more power. I had it plugged to the av cart. I plugged to the battery backup that's plugged to cart and it works like a champ. My hard drives are steadily visible and accessible now. Before then, the drives would show and go away.

this product is good but a little too lightweight, but good

Es un equipo con materiales de buena calidad, fácil de instalar, cuenta con 3 puertos usb 3.0, lector de trajeta TF y Sd,aspecto elegante y muy funcional en definitiva una muy buena elección

muy bien todo. solo que tengo q apagarlo por separado. despues de apagar la pc

No le pongo 5 estrellas porque cuando está trabajando e inserto una USB en la PC deja de trabajar se cambian de letra las unidades, fabricantes chequen ese dato

Excelente

Aparentemente todo funcionaba bien, pero en mi caso después de unos tres o cuatro meses de estar usándolo, de pronto veo que un seagate de 4 TB que tenía insertado ya no era reconocido por Windows, la tabla de particiones del HD se había corrompido y no hubo manera de repararla con ningún programa por lo que tuve que hacer una recuperación de archivos con el EaseUs Data Recovery, este fallo primeramene se lo atribuí a que el HD era de mala calidad. Pasó este incidente y después de un tiempo nuevamente para mi sorpresa sucedió lo mismo pero ahora con dos HD's que tenía insertados al mismo tiempo en la unidad, uno de 4 TB donde estaba haciendo mi respaldo y el otro de 2 TB donde tenía la información de origen que quería revisar y duplicar de manera manual porque la unidad ya se estaba llenando e igual, después de varias sesiones a la hora de prender este aparatito para seguir trabajando con mis archivos, veo con horror que ninguno de los dos HD's eran reconocidos y que al igual que en el primer incidente de meses atrás, la tabla de particiones de los dos Discos Duros se había perdido y sólo se mostraban con formato RAW en el administrador de discos, aquí ya se me hizo muy raro que el fallo sucediera en los dos HD's que tenía insertados al mismo tiempo por lo que empecé a desconfiar de esta unidad acoplamiento, este problema jamás se me había presentado en otra docking station viejita que tengo desde hace más de 8 años de la marca Thermaltake, la BlacX Duo que desafortunadamente solo te lee hasta 2 TB's, todavía la sigo usando pero dadas sus limitaciónes me era necesario tener una que pudiera leer Discos Duros de mayor capacidad, razón por la cual había comprado esta nueva de la marca RSHTECH para poder así trabajar con HD's de 3, 4 o más TB's y bueno después de este segundo fallo, yo todavía de necio quería creer que era problema de los Discos Duros, pero nuevamente ahora después de que hace unas pocas semanas quitara un HD Toshiba de 3TB de la serie X300 que estaba trabajando perfectamente bien dentro de mi computadora y que lo empecé a usar de manera externa en esta unidad de acoplamiento RSHTECH ¡ Sorpresa ! No pasaron ni tres días y mismo problema y además también me hecho a perder la otra tabla de particion del otro HD que también estaba insertado de la marca Western Digital por lo que definitivamente ya no me queda ninguna duda de que este aparatejo tiene algo o hace algo que en cualquier momemto te destruye las tablas de particiones de tus Discos Duros y te los deja irreconocibles por lo que definitivamente NO LO RECOMIENDO. Lo grave es que te das cuenta de este problema ya que pasó algún tiempo y tu garantía ya expiró como es mi caso por lo que lo único que me queda a mi por hacer es tirar este aparato a la basura.