FIDECO Hard Drive Docking Station, USB 3.0 SATA HDD Docking Station for 2.5 & 3.5 inch SATA HDD/SSD, Dual Bay, Support Offline Clone

Fits very well, Value for money, Power supply great, Installation easy, Great transfer speed.

Need a simple external dock to test and format hard drives. This does the job just fine. Has been very reliable for me.Can recommend.

This is a great piece of kit, which is almost perfect.I have 2 SSD's that I don't want to install inside my PC as I will move them occasionally between pc's and I have tried a couple of caddies but they don't always seem to give the full speed or even 75% of the speed.I have this on my desk now which I have plugged in both drives and as you can see from the images, the speed is almost 100% of what you would expect from an SSD.I even with the minor issues below still 1000% recommend this!!There are 3 issues I have with it though:1: Drives can be loose at times, once the drive is installed (2.5" Drive) they can be a bit loose, so just be careful.2: This a Windows issue mainly but each drive shows as it's own drive, but if you want to remove one of the drives you have to tell Windows to eject the whole device, remove the one drive and flick the power switch off and on in order to get windows to detect the remaining drive again.I don't know if in newer models this is an issue or not, but just be aware if you need something to be available at all times to the OS, do not use a drive installed in here.3: Again this is a Windows issues but when you have only one drive installed and you plug in a 2nd drive, the first drive will disappear from the file explorer, the 2nd drive will appear and then you need to refresh the file explorer to get the first drive to appear.I am going to be reinstalling Windows soon, so should any of these change once that is done then I will update the review.

Upgraded my PC with a new case that no longer supports HDD's but I didn't want to loose what I currently have on my HDD's so decided to go with this, really simple to set up, great value for money and its hot-swappable, well pleased with it so far.

This cloning dock is quite compact so doesn't take up much space. It's good quality, is packaged very well and comes with a UK 3A power supply. During my first clone of a 500GB 3.5" drive to a 2.5" SSD it didn't really get warm at all. Speed of copying was much faster than trying to copy through a laptop and SATA USB adapters (for example).I have been looking at this type of dock for some time and Fideco seemed good value. They are, especially when it comes with a proper UK power supply.Only niggle is the size of the LEDs. They are pin-small. There's a red one for power-on and three blue ones to track the copying process. With my older eyes I would have liked larger LEDs as it felt like I had to peer into the tiny holes to check progress.However it's a fine device and works really well.

Absolutely outstanding item. I bought a new 2TB SSD to replace my 1TB SSD which was running out of space. I used the offline clone feature of this item which was clearly explained in the multilingual manual and was very easy to use. My 1TB SSD had 820GB data and it was cloned to the replacement 2TB SSD in less than an hour! I then simply installed the new SSD in my computer, loaded Windows Disk Manager and extended my Drive-C partition into the 1TB free space and hey presto - 2TB storage!I would absolutely recommend this item - it worked flawlessly, didn't feel cheap in my hands, and came with an easy-to-understand plain English manual.

Excellent, made cloning old hdd to new ssd effortless. Now using to keep my own secure backups.

Worked fine, until it didn’t. After a few uses with no trouble the unit started to overheat and inserted drive to click incessantly. Seemingly its drawing far too much power for what it can handle. Avoid.