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

Used it to test several drives for a NAS before installation. Worked well

nice

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.

Worked after a few times trying! The instructions like others have said don't really work very confusing But product did work and so far no problem cloning my hard drive.

I love it. Works great! Makes exact copies of your drive. Great for backing up your Hard drive or switching from a HD to a SSD.

Great item. Very useful.

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.