WAVLINK USB 3.0 and USB C to SATA Dual-Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5/3.5 Inch HDD/SSD with UASP (6Gbps), Support Offline Clone/Duplicator Function [16TB X2 ]-Black

The docking function works well enough, appears to operate at full USB 3.0 speed, but the original unit's disk clone function failed to work out of the box after repeated trials. The included manual was little help, and the vendor's website had no useful information. Returned the WAVLINK unit the day after receiving it. The vendor, WAVLINK, then contacted me through Amazon, and asked to send a new unit for me to re-retry the disk cloning function. I received the unit and once again attempted to clone a clone a 1TB (WD Blue) disk to a 2TB (Seagate FireCuda) disk. They were very clear that the following directions had to be followed in order: "Hard Drive Duplicator Function: Don't plug USB to a computer when using the Clone function. Ensure the Target HDD is the same capacity of the Source HDD or larger. 1, Ensure the Power Switch on the rear is in the OFF Position and plugged in properly. 2, Insert the Source HDD in the rear near the power plug and insert the Target HDD in the front. 3, Power on the Dock and wait until the blue lights labeled Source and Target on the front of the unit are both on solid. 4, Press the button until both the blue Source and Target HDD lights flash. Then release the button. (Cloning is now ready) 5, Press the button again to start the cloning process. The progress will be shown on the front panel. 6, When all the progress lights turn off the cloning process is complete. 7, Turn off the power button and then remove the drives. Note: The new drives need one more step to make the drive useable. First open disk management--> on the bottom select the partition that is called unallocated partition---> right click the unallocated partition and click extended volume and follow the procedure and remember to select the volume format as NTFS." (This information was also presented in another review, and was the process I originally followed.) I followed the WAVLINK directions with the new unit and it worked as advertised. The clone function worked well, worked quickly, and kept me informed through the front panel lights as to its progress. All of the testing I have done indicates that the data on the 2TB Firecuda is an exact copy of the 1TB WD Blue disk, with an additional partition that needed to be activated via Win10's disk manager. Based on my experience I can only assume that the original unit was electrically defective, or had faulty firmware. The new unit simply worked as advertised. I do not know how it will work over time, but the unit sent by WAVLINK appears very solid. I recommend the unit.

I immediately cloned a 12tb drive to a 16tb. No problems. In fact it was as simple as inserting them appropriately and hitting the clone button. I extended the 16tb to its full capacity and using it as the main data drive now, without a hic-up. The 12tb is used in WAVLINK as a backup.

i got this because my years old sdd was beginning to fail. the last time i had to replace my hard drive, years ago with the sdd that was failing, i reinstalled everything which took almost an entire day to reinstall everything and get it set back up. the idea of being able to do it quicker and easier was well worth $30 to try. and it worked as advertised...with a slight learning curve. first, the videos i watched all said directly cloning the hard drive would create an exact clone, meaning the newer, larger sdd i bought would only show the same size as the sdd i was cloning. so i was prepared for that and used free software called AOMEI Partition Assistant to be able to use the entire drive. you CAN use windows disk management to increase the size of the c drive partition. the problem i had was there was a recovery partition between 2 unallocated spaces and disk management would only let me increase the size by the first space. i didnt want to delete the recovery partition and AOMEI allows you to move the recovery partition to the end so i could access both unallocated spaces. it was a very small hassle, nothing that would change my mind that buying this was well worth it. the 2nd issue was more frustrating and isnt a problem with the unit, though i initially thought it was. people who have experience cloning c drives may already know this, but this was my first time and i didnt. i took my old ssd out of my desktop and directly cloned it with this unit. it seemed to be pretty fast. i started it, took a shower and by the time i was done, so was the new sdd. i put it in my desktop, turned the power on...and then got a message that my desktop didnt find a boot disc. after checking connections and getting the same message, i thought maybe the cloning hadnt worked. so i reformatted and tried again...only to get the same result. at that point i decided to try and use the AEOMI software on my laptop to try and clone the sdd using the unit plugged into the laptop. and while searching for the best way to do that, one of the several results i read had instructions to go into the bios and set the boot order to the new disc. so i did that and voila, it booted up perfectly. as i said, many people might already know that, but as this was my first time doing this, i didnt. and i didnt see it mentioned in the instructions or any of the video reviews i watched. so if youre brand new to this, like me, remember to go into BIOS and set the boot order to the new disc.

The WavLink USB 3.0 Dual-Bay Docking Station, for it's price, is a handy device to have around the office. It's sturdy and stable with a convenient and small footprint. As a dock, it's pretty decent. I ran a test, copying a large file over USB (using a 3.0 port) with the WavLink, and then copying the same file with the same hard drive (freshly formatted) but connected directly to the computer - the difference in transfer times was was less than 30 seconds which is negligible for the convenience. I also tried running a standalone game (Guild Wars 2) directly from the docked hard drive and there was no noticeable lag or difference in loading times. Both slots can be used at the same time for dual-docking, although you need to be sure the drives are properly set up. If your drive isn't showing up on Windows, you may need to open the "Disk Management" tool and make it into a new Simple Volume (Warning: this will format/erase the drive.) I never had a problem mounting a drive in Linux, so if you're stuck and don't want to lose the data, just load up a Linux Live USB and transfer the data from there first. I did not test booting an operating system from the drive, so no comment on that. As a disk cloning tool, it's less than great and I would generally not suggest using this function. It works alright if you are making a 1:1 copy (as in, both drives are the exact same size) but can cause problems with missing partition tables and duplicated drive signatures. If the target drive is larger, it will make the source copy over as a partition, which is absolutely not ideal. It will not copy at all if the target drive is smaller than the source, even if the data on the smaller drive is less than the bigger drive. This style of cloning is maybe fine in an office setting where you need to produce pre-installed staff computers which all use the same hardware en-mass and network installing is not an option, but this is a very specific scenario and I can't see the cloning tool as-is advisable for your regular user - it's certainly not a selling point. I will also comment about the customer service - I had a small issue and it took a bit of running around with WavLink directly to get an answer. In the end, the issue got solved, but I could tell initially I was getting responses that did not regard the status of my order (for example, I was told to please be patient with shipping due to COVID-19 when the item had already arrived.) My suggestion to WavLink is to be sure of the actual status of the order and issue before replying, and my suggestion to anyone having an issue is to be patient and clear - there is a bit of a language barrier but the representatives will help you if you can work with them. Here are the measurements in case someone needs them: Base Size: 5x5"(depth) 4.75"(width) 2.75"(height) Power Cable Length: 56" (not including the power brick) USB Cable Length: 29"

I upgraded my laptop to a new Solid State hard drive. This docking station was PERFECT for copying my existing hard drive to the new hard drive. If you know what you're doing and follow instructions, it's great for cloning the hard drive. I haven't really used this as an external drive. I did however use it as a temporary boot drive. My laptop is running Linux, but I have the original Windows 10 hard drive that I need occasionally for 1 specific purpose/application. This worked great booting to the windows drive when I needed that application. Again, you have to know what you're doing. If you're not smarter than the technology, then you'll probably have issues. If you are smarter, and know what you're doing, then this drive works great for backing up, cloning, and booting from. In other words.... if you have problems, it's probably your fault and not the docking station.

No issues to complain about. Been able to set up my Plex server with this without incident. The clone feature is super helpful.

I have been using a StarTech disk duplicator similar to this one for years. I prefer to do a direct duplication without using a PC at all, but that's not always possible and the StarTech is only USB 2.0 though, so I felt that it was time to upgrade. Over the past few days I have tried to duplicate 4 different source disks - a 500GB, a 1 TB and a 3 TB. - with consistently horrible results: For the 500 GB disk, I did a direct (no PC) copy to a new 500GB disk. The duplicator refused to start the copying, even though the LEDs indicated that the drives were being read just fine. No matter what I tried, it simply never started. The Wavlink website had no helpful information in troubleshooting this. I gave up and used the older duplicator and it had no problem duplicating the disk for me. For the 1 TB disk, I did a direct (no PC) copy to a new 1TB disk. It appeared to duplicate successfully, but the PC failed to boot from it. I then mounted the duplicated drive into another running system and Windows immediately warned me that the filesystems on both of the duplicated partitions were corrupt. Just to make sure, I then mounted the original drive in this same system, and there were no such corruption issues on the source disk. I can see there is some data on the duplicated disk, but corruption has obviously been introduced so none of the data can be considered reliable. I used the old duplicator instead at this point, it copied my disk perfectly, and the PC that the disk went into booted and ran fine as it should have when I had initially used this Wavlink duplicator. For the 3 TB disk, I did a direct (no PC) copy to a new 3 TB disk. The disk duplication appeared to begin properly, initially flashing the 25% progress LED like it should. 27 hours later, it was still flashing just the 25% progress light. Copying a 3TB disk takes a while, but there is no way it should take this long, so I stopped it. I put the target disk into another system so I could see if this was just a really slow duplicator and some data was there, or if there was some other problem. What I found was that the disk was still completely unpartitioned. I then used my older duplicator and was able to copy this 3 TB disk in a few hours with no issues at all. I gave this thing a more-than-fair shot, and it did nothing but let me down. In the end, it cost me far more in lost time and prodcutivity than I would have paid for absolutely any other product of this type. It is about to be returned, and I will actively avoid Wavlink products in the future.

Product is excellent, I definitely recommend. Shipment was fast. Great seller!

Initially when ordering, I really had low expectations for but they've been unexpectedly exceeded. Let's talk about packaging first though, either Amazon or the seller should use more protective packaging, otherwise there are chances of it getting damaged. Product is perfect. I mainly bought it as a drive bay and it's read and write speed are quite well. Got 120mb/s on my HDD. They've given a USB to USB C adaptor as well which is made of metal. The product doesn't feel like made of low quality as well. It has some paddings which makes it stick to the surface you put it on, which is a plus too. I'd say it's quite good.

Excelente, con un solo botón comienza el proceso de clonación de disco, puedes conectarlo a la computadora o puedes no hacerlo, tiene esa función y es muy útil, son usuario medio, por lo que cometí un error que no es imputable al producto, puse a clonar un HDD de 500 en un SSD de 1Tb y al clonarlo, ahora el PS4 lo lee como si fuese un disco de 500 cuando en realidad es de 1TB, pero fue error mío pues lo cloné con el botón automático y no haciéndolo con software en la lap. muy bien hecho y sirve perfecto para lo que es

No issue. Read/write Speed as it should be.

動作が安定していてとても使いやすい。説明書も丁寧でわかりやすい。尾志々目です。

Have a bunch of old hard drives that contain data that I need to consolidate and needed a external dock to simplify the job. Like that this dock has the ability to quickly duplicate drives even standalone. It can fit both 3.5 and 2.5 drives and it uses a USB3 interface which is fast and a must for my requirements. The dock itself felt well made, as well as the USB3 cable that came with the unit. The power adapter is a bit large and will take up more that one slot on a power bar. The status indicator lights on the front of the dock was handy and easy to read. Installation was so simple, just plugged it into my win10x64 desktop USB3 port and it was picked up right away. Have been using it for a while and so far no issues. No random disconnects or freezing. Really impressed with the copy speed which will range depending on the type of drive connected and the size and number of files. This dock is a pretty solid performer and saved me a lot of time. Happy with this purchase and would recommend for anyone who needs to move data.