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

Works like a charm. I've owned less expensive duplicators, and this was definitely worth the little extra money spent because the transfer speed is much faster.

Coulnd't believe it was actually THAT easy but it was. Put my old mech drive in the source bay and the new SSD drive in the target bay, clicked copy and the next morning it was done. When my computer first booted up, it did run into an issue but it caught it, rebooted and everything is working great.

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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.

If anyone has a hard drive that needs to be cloned, this is what is needed to accomplish everything successfully. I had a Kingston ssd that was eleven years old on a desktop and it was running very slow. I cloned the drive with a new Samsung and everything booted perfectly and ran much faster. I did a couple of reboots and everything was all good.

Bought the USB3.1 back in Dec 4 2022, it was working fine as advertised at first. I was using this mostly as a external Sata Hdd Docking station and some times used it as a duplicator as a back up.Yesterday night (Dec 7 2024) My hard drive suddenly crashes while moving few files and coudn't access my hard drive properly, File Explorer will not open unless I turned off the whole docking station. few times when I was managed to access the HDD, I've tried to move files to external backup hard drive but Dockingstation will disconnect every 2-5 min.trying to trouble shoot the issue for almost 12-16 hours. at first I thoguht it was my hard drive going bad but few hours later I reallized that it was docking station going bad(?). I don't have another SATA to USB adaptor so I can't test to see if this is hard drive issue but 3 Hard drive all going bad at the same time is very unlikely.(bought 2 HDD just in case my 3HDD are failing). I don't have extra computer to test to see if it is the laptop issuechanged USB port to different location, Try to see if it was a firmware update(which I seems to be unable to do so) and changed the powercable to different location just to see if it was insufficient power output but it all failed. restarted computer multiple time as ejection fails.As of now Only HDD2(Source Slot) works with disconnection from time to time and nothing is getting detected at HDD1, also Copy/Duplicator function also no longerworks(presshold the copy does nothing, no light changes)Device did until the warrenty date is up (2 years)Feel like Planned Obsolescence as as soon as the warranty expires, Docking station decide to fail.

Over the years, I have seen many product names come and go. So far, everything I have run across from this company StarTech has really been a good quality item for the price.You can find many other cloners and I am sure for a cheaper price, but the experience I have had with ST, i bought this one.- Good quality -- Nice and heavy for what looks to be plastic.- No issues, worked like a charm- Tested cloning a 250gb drive to a 500gb drive that was a standard boot mbr. Threw the clone in the machine and it booted up without issues.- Win7 self loaded a driver when hooked to the pc and the device then acts like a dock to access the drives via usb 3.0- Easy to clone. Plug the source in the source slot HDD2 (yes, source is slot 2 in the one i received and i have no idea why they would do that. Logic would have you thinking to clone 1 to 2, not 2 to 1) and the destination disk into slot 1. Make sure the pc/copy button is red for copy and press the button. Wait some time and bam, it is done. Take note that this takes some time. This is not done by wiggling your nose and snapping your fingers. Your fingers will be broken by the time it is done. With 2 drives at 7200 spin SATA 3gbps, the 250gb drive was done in just under 40 minutes by my count. Throw a nice 2gb combo at the same speeds and you might want to just go eat dinner and watch a movie.Only one small thing that is becoming less of a big deal every day; IDE drives. No access to clone older IDE drives as this is for SATA only. At work, I have a lot of older pcs with IDE only. We are using every instance of trouble to simply upgrade pcs which all have SATA anyway but if i needed a quick access to a disk, it would be nice to have it here. There is an option priced on Amazon here at $18 or so that provides a dongle to fit right in this device, giving access to IDE. You need this option, a pair of these might be worth it or then find another option with this built in.Part of the reason i bought this one is that we use the StarTech 2 bay dock to access disks on the desk now as it is and enjoy the quality there as well. I bought this one for the office and may consider one for home with the option of cloning out a large windows drive that is simply ready.Good product and worth the money in my opinion.Update: 12/14/2015 - This device works great, but I did find one snag that most people will not run into, but I sure did; HPA partitions. What you do not see listed is that this will not copy a HPA partition. These partitions are used for older pcs that needed instructions on how to handle larger discs in regards to ATA and were also used for security purposes. If you are trying to clone a disk with one of these and it is the only hard drive left alive with a dead vendor, you are screwed.Now for the good news; StarTech rocks. I only took a survey and man, they were on top of things fast. Not only did they contact me to make sure my needs were fulfilled and why they were/were not, they made the whole situation right by making sure I got the right device that could do so. I offered to send this one back to compensate them back and they said "keep it, you might still use it".Class company that is certainly focusing on customer service and that says a lot of their character and how they do business.

Does not work on a MAC M4 Mini...Failed as writes never exceeded 10MB/S....Their tech support after some testing with me said it appeared the M4 Macs are not seeing the device's resistance or voltage correctly. So I returned it.Instead, I bought a USB 3 competitor's product with a dual dock and it worked perfectly (180 READ 200 WRITE).So I recommend sticking with the older tech USB 3 (5 gbps) models since they DO work and give the same speed per drive as one would expect from a 10gbps model.