StarTech.com Standalone Hard Drive Duplicator, External Dual Bay HDD/SSD Cloner/Copier, USB to SATA III Docking Station

I use this regularly to "clone" hard drives and back up data. It works great.

StarTech items work well and last. This is my 4th StarTech item I have purchased over the last 8 years. Everything still functions as new. I already had one of their docks and I have use for a duplicator. So I trust StarTech devices. Easy to set up and use. And it works as advertised. I expect the longevity to be useful for many years even as I use it simply as a docking station for an internal drive most of the time. The duplication works perfectly, as I use it to create backups of other hard drives every week.

OMG! This is it! FANTASTIC! I am so happy with this time saver! So simple, so fast! I hope they will make and sell an adapter that you can use to plug a usb flash/thumb drive into your computer to replace the hard drive.

I does connect and work as described for mounting and access hard drives. Unfortunately, there is a single USB bus and if you eject one HDD the other is disconnected even in use. On Mac this results in volume improperly ejected messages. The only solution is to complete work on both HDDs, eject both, turn off the unit, swap the HDD(s) and turn the unit back on. This does not fit my work flow requirements and I will be returning it. I did not test the stand-alone duplicate feature.

Excelente equipo ,muy fiable

You can purchase 3 Wavlink brand disc copiers; however, this is much better built, more rugged, and better warranty overall. Yes, buy 3 Wavlinks or one of these. But the reviews on Wavlink are not perfect. Update 7/15/2024: I used this StarTech to clone from a 6 TB to a 20 TB drive. Even after entering the Windows Disk Management System, I could not get my computer to recognize ALL of the 20 TB disk space. It would not allow my computer to "expand" the drive size (those who use Windows 10/11 will know what I'm talking about). I tried it again, and again. Same problem. It does say, however, that a new drive should be "initialized" before putting it into the disk cloner. I did not initialize--and that was not necessary with the Wavlink (less expensive but more cheaply built) product. I returned the 20 TB drive realizing there was no way my computer was ever going to recognize the clone and expand to 20 TB. I tried Acronis, Disk Drill, AOMEI and none of them would allow the 20 TB clone to expand to the full 20 TB. According to the info supplied by Amazon, this docking station will NOT clone drives >6TB. I wished I knew that prior to the purchase of the SDOCK2U313R.

I've purchased a lot of Startech equipment, but this one has destroyed a couple of my high dollar drives. Stay away. Cloning is slow as heck, but mostly used as an external backup toaster. Probably has 60 hours on it before it died.

The product is very practical, cloned my SSDs with no issues. No need to attach to a computer, great price. Watch out for the flipped numbers, I'm so glad other reviewers brought that up. I can't imagine what made StarTech think anyone would think of Disk 1 being the target and Disk 2 being the source.

Facil de usar,cumple con las especificaciones

Cet appareil est fonctionnel, il permet de faire des copies de disque identique !

Very good duplicator, able to use stand-alone mode like the 5 way model.

Die StarTech.com SDOCK2U313R Dockingstation überzeugt durch eine konsequente technische Umsetzung und hohe Zuverlässigkeit im täglichen Einsatz an einem Linux-Server. 1. Hervorragende Chipsatz-Wahl (ASMedia ASM1352R): StarTech setzt hier auf den ASMedia ASM1352R Controller, was sich in der Praxis sofort auszahlt. Volle 10Gbps: Der Controller nutzt die USB 3.1 Gen 2 Bandbreite tatsächlich aus. Nativer UASP-Support: Das Gerät wird unter Linux sofort mit dem uas-Treiber eingebunden, was für optimale Performance und geringe CPU-Last sorgt. 2. Stabilität unter Linux: Viele USB-SATA-Bridges haben unter Linux mit Stabilitätsproblemen oder Kernel-Blacklists zu kämpfen. Diese Dockingstation hingegen läuft absolut stabil. Es gibt keine Verbindungsabbrüche, und die volle Geschwindigkeit steht dauerhaft zur Verfügung. 3. Standalone-Duplikator: Die Offline-Klon-Funktion ist ein extrem nützliches Feature. SSDs oder HDDs lassen sich ohne angeschlossenen Computer spiegeln, was Zeit spart und sehr zuverlässig funktioniert. Die Fortschrittsanzeige ist dabei klar und verständlich. Fazit: Wer eine Dockingstation sucht, die technisch auf dem aktuellen Stand ist und unter Linux ohne zusätzliche Konfiguration stabil läuft, wird hier fündig. Die Kombination aus echtem 10Gbps-Speed und der Duplikator-Funktion rechtfertigt den Preis absolut. Eine klare Empfehlung für alle, die Wert auf technische Integrität legen.

Worked first time and created a 1TB clone in a couple hrs.