Review on 📁 ikuai SATA to USB 3.0 Dual Bay Hard Drive Dock for 2.5" and 3.5" SATA HDD SSD with SD TF Card Reader, 2 USB 3.0 Ports, Offline Clone Function, External Hard Drive Docking Station - UASP Supported by Robert Xayamonty

I have had many personal projects to enlarge (or shrink) some PC hard drives, DVRs etc. I've had several of these little adapters that let you connect an IDE, mini-IDE, or SATA drive to a USB cable. 2.5" SATA drives were fine. But whenever you needed to connect a 3.5" IDE or SATA drive, you had to find a wall outlet and a 4-pin molex or 4-pin connector, to get to the SATA power connector. Not to mention the precarious nature of having a hard drive on your desk ready to be thrown away or damaged. It was constantly plugged into a USB3 hub and could easily handle 3.5- Plug in any 2.5" or 2.5" drives. I've had this unit for over a week now and it works perfectly. Haven't used it yet. I originally had a 5TB Seagate external hard drive on my Tablo 4 Wireless Tuner DVR Bought. But with my current browsing (and other services) habits, I was missing even 1TB of hard drive storage space (almost at the highest compression quality.) And there are times when I could really use that 5TB drive for other purposes ted until Seagate Barracuda 2TB 2.5 inch drive was pretty cheap and bought this hard drive docking station. Since the old 5TB drive is external, it's in a plastic case and I can't put a 3.5" drive in the dock. But I can connect it to another USB3.0 port on my PC. Even though the drive was empty and I was able to put it in one of the two slots, it is LARGER than the target drive and the cloning features require the target drive to be the same as or larger than the source drive. I used the gParted boot image. to shrink the ext4 partition on a 5TB drive so I can use a normal disk cloning software to easily clone the partition from the 5TB drive to the new 2TB drive in the Ikuai dock copy. I then boot into gParted again to extend the partition to the maximum size the new drive can handle. Now it can be installed in the Tablo Quad DVR (This model has an internal 2.5" hard drive bay. And now I can reformat the 5TB drive to NTFS for backups or whatever else I need. I could use it with my old sata adapter but ikuai's dock makes it really quick and easy to work with multiple drives, have no regrets buying it.