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Review on πŸ“ Inateck Dual Bay SATA Hard Drive Docking Station: USB 3.0 SSD Dock for Efficient Data Transfer - FD2005 by Walt Smirnoff

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Good quality for the price. (great for cloning) (worst dock design)

I use it as a 2 bay hard drive dock and backup hard drive cloner. Pros + Great for disk cloning, very good speed. + Small, light. + The blue light only flickers when that particular hard drive is in use. (I've seen some people report that the blue lights don't reflect disk usage. In my experience, this is incorrect.) About 40% of the time, I find that I haven't fully seated the disk. (This is very annoying.) -There is no way to turn off only one hard drive at a time. I have to turn off the entire device to swap out just one hard drive without damaging it. Conclusion: I would definitely buy it again or one of the other two Inateck Bays for the same price. I'm not sure which of the three is better (this is the latest model which is why I bought it, but one of the others has a metal body). The price-performance ratio of this device is very good. If you just want to use it as a docking station and not for cloning, there are better options. If you only want to clone, USB 3.2 or Thunderbolt devices are the only best option.

Pros
  • Hands-free operation
Cons
  • Cable is shorter than other options