Alxum USB C to SATA HDD Hard Drive Docking Station with Offline Clone Function for 2.5 & 3.5 Inch SATA HDD SSD Hard Drives, SATA External Dual Bay Dock Support 2 x 18TB

Worked out of the box, easy to use, perfect!

Great bit of kit for fast cloning of SATA hard disk drives. I'm using it both stand-alone and with a fairly recent PC (10th generation Intel i5 with Windows 10).The twin-dock is quite flexible. Both docks work with either 2.5" or 3.5" drives.You can clone either from one dock to the other (in which case it is stand-alone from a PC). This works well, at SATA III speeds of 6 Gbps if the hard drives support it (modern ones will do).You can also use the dock as - in effect - an external hard disk bay for a PC by linking it with a USB C cable. This is picked up in, for example, File Explorer so the unit can be used for file storage or with cloning software such as Macrium to clone an internal PC drive to a bare SATA drive in one of the docks.Unfortunately, the USB intermittently dropped out and reconnected. This was not an issue for me as Macrium or the Teracopy software I use for file copies cope with this and pick up where the file copy left off, but it did give an issue with File Explorer. My PC has multiple USB devices including legacy USB 2 devices, so this is just an advisory rather than necessarily a problem with the unit. USB controllers can get themselves in knots. But it did happen across different USB C ports, both directly on the motherboard and on a PCIe expansion card. Short of these intermittent drop-outs, it worked fine - but I'm personally happier with dedicated external drive enclosures which haven't given similar drop-out problems.So four stars only for flexibility...Decent unit overall, at a reasonable price.

This is a great product and I choose this model as I needed the USB-C connection. Speed is as advertised, fast and I got up to 6GB/s transfers at times. Later after copying stuff I also had it on for 2-3 weeks solid when transferring stuff and using it as an external hard drive hub for a while.Only nag is that you can not do hot swaps! no options for that ! I think this is why most people reviewers here been getting data corruptions as they don't connect or disconnect the hard drives when they put it in the Docking station. For this to work without damaging your Hard drive you have to first put your hard drive in when station is switched off. Connect all USB cables and then start the docking station then your computer. When done, Eject from Windows , switch off your computer, then switch off the docking station and then take your hard drive out. You have about 10 seconds after you switched off your computer to do the above otherwise the docking station will restart reading your hard drive again !Ps. Direct cloning did not work for me and if you want your data verified and safely copied doing through the operative system is best and fastest anyway!

Zero setup and gets working within 5 minutes! Very handy gadget for cloning mechanical drives to SSD. Can also serve as a backup repository without having to install an additional drive.

Bought this to upgrade an old an old laptop disk to ssd, and replace a 120GB win10 pc boot ssd with a larger one. The offline cloning option worked very well. Cloning the 750gb laptop hard drive (5400rpm) took a couple of hours, whereas the Intel 120gb ssd took minutes (… so quick that I was able to experiment by re-cloning the ssd multiple times).A couple of things I wish I’d thought about before starting …1. My old HP laptop used UEFI and initially would not recognise the cloned ssd. Changing the bios to “legacy boot” allowed the laptop to boot to the new ssd. I then changed it back to “secure boot”.2. My Pc installation of Win10 had a Microsoft “recovery partition” directly after the “C:” partition. This meant that any free space on the new ssd would show up after the “recovery partition” and not be contiguous with the “C:” partition. I assumed, wrongly, that Win10 disk management tools would allow the movement of partitions to generate contiguous space.There are many recommendations for popular tools that will reorder partitions. I gave up with these when the first 2 I downloaded were flagged (rightly or wrongly) by my system as containing viruses.Second approach was to create a new partition to hold the standard windows library folders (downloads, music, videos etc) either mounted against a C: drive folder , or as a separate drive. This worked but felt clumsy.In the end I decided to manually delete the recovery partition using the “diskpart” utility to allow me to extend the C: drive, and then manually create a new recovery partition or other usb recovery media.Fortunately I noticed my version of windows was due to receive the “20H2” feature update, so I recloned the ssd (….minutes), deleted the recovery partition, extended the “C:” partition leaving a few GB of free space at the end of the disk, and then installed the feature update.Installing the “20H2” update automatically created another recovery partition in the space leftover at the end of the ssd.

Works seamlessly

Having an offline cloning function is great, but not at the expense of any online cloning function.The off line clone would not work, where the source drive was larger, even where the total partitions were smaller than the destination drive.The destination drive could not be seen by any system on the computer expect the partition manager, which could only set a maximum of four partitions. Unfortunately the source drive had seven partitions, three of which were set by Windows for secret functions and could not be changed, so that would not work either.

reads large capacity disks up to 10TB which is rare. Very fast transfer, can be connected to pc and console. the downside is that external power supply is required.

Works perfectly with Windows 10

The product did not work. I had to return it and look for another brand and hope for a better result.

Very simple to use. My WD external hard drive stopped being recognized on my computer. Watched some YouTube videos…. Disassembled it to isolate the hard drive from its casing and stuck it in the new Sata drive and was able to access all my data! Yay!

It reached in time at home and it is working perfectly.

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