Great price on a dual bay. I personally have two and haven't had any issues. Speeds have been fair.
Link to cheaper model https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07C9RSZFM
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Both drives viewable on my PC.
Running a z640 workstation with Windows 11.
Drives are viewable but as soon as I start copying it just loses connection. My PC doesn't seem to understand what it is. It thinks it's a SCSI drive and tries to use the wrong driver. I can't get my PC to use it as a regular USB Mass Storage drive no matter what I do.
I have a similar Wavlink unit, and it's supposed to use the USB Attached SCSI driver, not USB Mass Storage.
It's built into Windows so should just work without needing with drivers
@KazaHesto: My laptop sees it as USB Mass Storage and it seems to work fine there. I can't copy more than a few files with my PC.
@ozbs25: Not an expert, but UASP devices fallback to USB mass storage if the device they're connected to doesn't support UASP. No idea if there's some way for you to force it, though the ideal solution would be to get it working properly on your PC as UASP is supposed to be faster.
Maybe try updating your chipset drivers?
@KazaHesto: No idea. I tried everything. My motherboard isn't old and I updated it all anyway after the drive failed. Maybe I'll try again one day but the dock did what I needed it to do which was backup my NAS before I upgraded the drives. My old dock has been pretty reliable for copying and I just went back to that one.
@ozbs25: I saw this blog post where someone messed with the built in windows drivers to trick it into using USB mass storage, but seems pretty hacky. Probably not a good idea if your old dock works fine.
https://www.valueweb.gr/external-uasp-usb-enclosures-windows…
@KazaHesto: Thanks, bookmarked. I may try one day, but like I said to netsurfer, I did read some worrying reviews about this dock after I used it so I may just wait and get another one anyway.
What you described seems to indicate a USB 3.0 cable issue. Did you use the supplied USB cable? Do you have another quality USB 3.0 cable that you can try.
One of my Ryzen systems has some issues with certain USB 3 devices. Initially, I thought AMD fixed the USB issue with one of the AGESA updates, but lately I found that particular motherboard seems to still have USB 3 compatibility issue. Also, I found that system's front panel USB ports are a bit dodgy (cheap case, old system).
@netsurfer: I tried a few different cables, different ports, through a USB hub. I tried a lot of different things. As I have another dock I just gave up. I may try again one day but I'm not in any rush. After I bought and used it, I read that some people had issues with this dock where it would somehow turn drives in RAW partitions which ain't great.
This wasn't my first choice for a dock and it just happened to be a good price when I needed to try a different one. For some reason my old dock doesn't seem to like copying large amounts of data across a network. It loses connection to the source and kills the transfer. It seems OK when transferring data from my PC even though it's only supposed to support 2TB drives. I've used up to 16TB and it doesn't seem to have any problems. I pretty much always test the data after copying via teracopy and I open a few files just to be sure. I'm still on the lookout for another dock but I can wait now.
Whats the difference between the two, besides colour?
They are about the same price at local stores
This isn't a great price on Amazon either anyway. They have jacked the price and added a coupon to make it look cheaper. It is often at $40. I got it for about $38.
Is there something like this with 2.5, 3.5 and nvme stick?
Am I the only one that would be paranoid about it having a cloning function? What if you accidentally trigger it and it wipes the drive?
Do you like to press and hold every button you see for 3 seconds? If yes, then you should avoid getting it.
The dangerous part is actually messing up the source and target drives (put them the other way around).
Better to plug one drive in at a time. Having 2 in will probably halve the speed as well when theyre both accessed.
oooh yeah, you heart stops while you watch it copying….after checking things 100 times. Even more so if you are using identical drives
The usb c one is the cheaper one. and looking at the pics it is a adaptor at the end of the cable that makes it usb c.
Does this work with unraid, especially putting array backup drive in this
Did you find out? About to buy for my unraid server
I didn't get convincing review for this one. But I got one for Another Type from Amazon which is working fine for me so far. Link: WAVLINK SATA to USB-C Cable Adapter - Dual Bay Hard Drive External Reader Cable, Support Files Transfer, Backup with Offline Cloning Function https://amzn.asia/d/2JOQ20h
Been using for my plex storage for 3 years now. The only complaint I have is that the dock will disconnect itself after 10 minutes of idle even I set it to not disconnect in Window. The only way around this is to use KeepAliveHD and some said this is bad for the hdd… Anyone have this issue?
I have this and can't for the life of me get it working properly on my computer. I could use it when I connected it to my NAS directly but I'll need to look into something else for my PC.