SABRENT USB Type C SATA 2.5” & 3.5” Dual Bay Hard Drive Docking Station | Offline Cloning | Up to 5Gbps | Tool Free Installation (EC-CH2B)

This is an excellent hard-drive docking station. It appears well-build of quality materials, and it is well-priced My M4 MacBookPro recognizes it as ASMedia Technologies Asm235 media and I have had very good experience with that chipset in the past. Currently, I have it plugged into a 5GB/s port on the back of a CalDigit TS3+ dock, so it is therefore limited to that speed. However, the dock itself is capable of 10 Gb/s, but of course you have to have it plugged in to a USB port supporting that speed. I have had an excellent experience with a SABRENT product in the past and have no doubt that this one will also serve me well for a very long time.

Great little unit. Hold four SATA drives and ports through one USB 3.0 port. Works flawlessly. Well built, nice magnetic top. The cooling fan is helpful, and you can switch it on/off independently. I read complaints about fan noise -- I don't think its too bad at all. Just a slight white noise, almost like one of those white noise sleeping machines. About 55db. Makes me feel like a nap. Have dropped 5 different SATA HDs in there of different ages and sizes, current to 10+ years old, 240GB to 1 TB, all recognized and working flawlessly. Sometime a little tricky getting odd-thickness (too thick or thin) drives to seat, just be cognizant. Great value too. Clone drives, or group them to increase storage size. I'm storing old movie clips on them.

I am very impressed with this 4-drive (2.5") docking station, which I bought to replace a physically larger 2-drive 2.5"/3.5" Toaster-style USB docking station. This review is for a SABRENT USB 3.0 4 Bay 2.5” Hard Drive/SSD Docking Station with Fan (DS-4SSD). It is really simple to install. Magnetic cover is super-easy to open up. 2.5" Drives slide in and take only a tiny bit of fiddling to get them to seat properly. USB-3.0 is fine at this price, but I would have paid more for a faster USB-C station, even though I don't really need faster speed - my Mac has USB-C and I need a USB 3.0 adapter to use this. Takes up very little room on my desk - less room than my older dual-bay Inateck "toaster". Fan is not silent, but definitely not loud. I would not pay extra to make it more quiet. Only one actual complaint: on a Mac Book Pro (macOS Monterey), plugging in a 4th drive causes the already running 3 drives to temporarily disconnect. I would pay $10 more to make it not do that. At this price point ($80), I will accept this flaw. I am still impressed and happy with being able to have 4 external drives for different types of functions. There is a great deal to like about this 4-drive dock. At $80, I don't expect perfect.

Works very well with Ubuntu OS on a single board computer. I use the `hdparm -S` command to set spindown time and the drive does go to sleep - the green led flashes slowly and the power draw drops down to <3W with a single 3.5" HDD. Nice! Tested for about 2 weeks. Hoping for a long life as this is now in daily use - time will tell.

I was able to put 4 SSD drives i had laying around and create a storage space that is 1.2 TBs to backup my music. this device is worth the price and so easy to use.I highly recommend this to anyone that needs a storage enclosure.

Very nice design and function... however, it is NOT hot swappable. Aside from that, I am very happy with this product and recommend its use. It looks small, but is well designed and sturdy, besides being mostly plastic.

I have always liked, trusted and purchased Sabrent products. Thought I could purchase this as a cheap man's attached storage to use as a DVR to my mini Win 10 HTPC. I have Synology DS409slim and DS416slim 2.5" NAS boxes and thought this could give me similar capability as a side mounted USB external drive on the cheap.Tried though I might I could not make it work. Sadly, even with it's low price, because of its limitations I can't see any functional use for this product at all. In the end I purchased another DS416slim and relegated DVR duties to my DS409slim.As advertised the drives are accessible at flash SSD speeds. The drives are easily installed and it looks as if this enclosure can accommodate even 15mm tall drives. This product had the possibility of displacing the DS4XXslim series as the only 4 bay 2.5" device on the market. Sad that it misses this mark by a large marginFanFirst of its certainly nice that it has a fan, however you'll probably never want turn it on. It is very loud. If you fill this box with SSD's you don't need it. However if you use HDD's with the lid on without the fan they will surely overheat. Just one HDD in this box without the fan, ran so hot I was concerned the drive would fail prematurely. They should have given the option to set the fan speed.LED lights.The LED's are overly bright. It would be nice to dim them or turn them off entirely. Surely a minor issue but annoying when you turn off the lights and watch TV with this in the room.Not Hot SwappableThis was the deal breaker. When drives are plugged in, the other installed drives rebooted. Sometimes the drives did not reinstall themselves and remained offline. I used a mix of SSD's from Samsung, Crucial and Silicon Power and a WD HDD.Although the ardvert says "Hot Swappable" I did not find it to be the case. If I formatted a drive and then unplugged and then reinstalled to the same slot, frequently the drive would not reappear in Windows Explorer. I could take that same drive and put it into a different enclosure (Sabrent EC-RDSV) and it would display with a drive letter properly in Explorer. Put it back into the DS-4SSD and the drive is still unreadable. Move a drive to any of the other slot of the DS-4SSD and you risk it being unreadable.I tried combining multiple drives into one using Disk Manager. Win 10 would not allow this. I tried doing the same thing in Storage Spaces in Win 10. Often it would fail to work though I tried many different drive combinations. Each and every time when it did allow the DS-4SSD to create a Storage Space, in a short time it would post an error saying one of the drives was not available. Often the Storage Space could not be removed and the SSD's and HDD were "bricked". I had to find a Win 7 computer and use Disk Manager and the Diskpart command to recover them.Once some of these drives had been "bricked" and recovered, the DS-4SSD would not only not recognize them, but plugging these in would sometime make the other "unbricked" drives disappear. Incidentally I was able to use two Sabrent EC-RDSV enclosures and create and remove Storage Spaces with my drives without incident. There is something wrong with the product or my copy of it.It is not easy to reach out to Sabrent to get support. No tech support phone number. This product in my opinion has a lot of promise. If it worked it could have been valued much higher. However as it is it was a waste of a week of my time and $60.00.My wife after seeing all my frustrated attempts to get this working urged me to buy another $300 DS416slim. I put all of my "bricked" and "un-"bricked" drives into it. It formatted them without incident, combined them into a RAID5 partition using SHR. I created an iSCSI share that was designated as the D drive. I configured my Silicon Dust DVR onto the iSCSI share and went to bed peacefully for the first time in a week.Sabrent, sorry. Wanted to like this. Couldn't.Regards All and Good Night

The Sabrent USB Type C SATA 2.5” & 3.5” Dual Bay Hard Drive Docking Station worked right out of the box. No real installation, just plug it into a power source, plug the USB-C cable into an appropriate USB port on your PC/Laptop, pop a couple SATA drives into the bays, and turn the power on. Drives are automatically detected in both Windows and Linux without any user intervention. I would recommend this dock to anyone looking for a way to add a couple of external SSDs/HDs to their PC/Laptop for extra storage.