Review on 💾 Inateck Aluminum SATA Hard Drive Docking Station, USB 3.0 SSD Dock, Dual Bay, FD2102 by Jignesh Shaffer

I recently replaced the old version of this dock with the current version. My main data drive recently had a hardware problem. I use this dock for both data drive connection and backup. With this backup system, restoring my system was (almost) as easy as replacing a backup drive with a primary drive. More details below. . . .My computer is an iMac (currently a late 2015 model). After the earlier iMac died, I switched to storing my user data on an external drive. I used an Inateck docking station with two 2TB WD Red drives. One drive is primary. Every midnight I have SuperDuper mirror the main drive to the spare drive. So every morning I have an exact copy of the main disk. This is an "intelligent" mirroring process that copies and deletes only what is necessary to make the backup an exact copy of the main backup. I swap out the backup disk once a week, so I always have a second backup that's no more than a week old (although I didn't need it in this case). Before I went on vacation a month ago I made sure the backups were up to date and closed everything. When I came back, the iMac would not start. I was able to log into the admin account on the internal drive but not my regular user account on the external drive. I've used some disk utilities and found that the primary hard drive has failed (probably a hardware failure). From the administrator account, I renamed the backup drive to the main drive name. This allowed me to log into my user account. All my data and settings were there. At this point the WD drives and Inateck docking station were over 5 years old. I decided to replace the docking station and all three drives with a WD Red Plus 4TB model. The drives arrived first so I used the old dock's cloning feature to clone a 2TB drive to a 4TB drive and then clone a 4TB drive to the new spare 4TB drives . When the new docking station arrived, I connected the new drives and my computer worked normally again, with all data and settings.