--- product_id: 170780734 title: "4-Bay USB-C 10Gbps Hard Drive Enclosure, Docking Station (DS-SC4B)" brand: "sabrent" price: "₨9515" currency: SCR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 category: "Sabrent" url: https://www.desertcart.sc/products/170780734-4-bay-usb-c-10gbps-hard-drive-enclosure-docking-station store_origin: SC region: Seychelles --- # 10Gbps USB-C Gen 2 speed Active cooling with 92mm fan Tray-less hot-swap per bay 4-Bay USB-C 10Gbps Hard Drive Enclosure, Docking Station (DS-SC4B) **Brand:** sabrent **Price:** ₨9515 **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > πŸš€ Power Your Data Empire with Speed, Security & Style ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** 4-Bay USB-C 10Gbps Hard Drive Enclosure, Docking Station (DS-SC4B) by sabrent - **How much does it cost?** ₨9515 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sc](https://www.desertcart.sc/products/170780734-4-bay-usb-c-10gbps-hard-drive-enclosure-docking-station) ## Best For - sabrent enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted sabrent brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Effortless Tray-less Hot-Swap:** Swap or upgrade drives on the fly without tools, featuring individual power switches and activity LEDs for total control. - β€’ **Massive 80TB Storage Capacity:** Scale your storage effortlessly with support for up to four 3.5-inch SATA HDDs/SSDs, ideal for professional-grade media libraries. - β€’ **Blazing 10Gbps USB-C Connectivity:** Experience ultra-fast data transfers with USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C, perfect for heavy workloads and large media files. - β€’ **Universal Compatibility & Security:** Seamlessly works across Windows, macOS, and Linux with a locking key and Kensington slot for peace of mind. - β€’ **Robust Aluminum Build with Active Cooling:** Durable metal enclosure paired with a whisper-quiet 92mm fan ensures your drives stay cool and reliable 24/7. ## Overview The SABRENT 4-Bay USB-C 10Gbps Hard Drive Enclosure (DS-SC4B) is a high-performance external storage solution designed for professionals needing fast, reliable access to up to four 3.5-inch SATA drives. Featuring dedicated ASMedia controllers per bay, tray-less hot-swap capability, and active cooling in a sturdy aluminum chassis, it supports up to 80TB of JBOD storage via a single USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C connection. Compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux, it offers individual drive power controls, security locks, and worldwide power support, making it the ultimate desktop dock for serious data management. ## Description desertcart.com: SABRENT 4-Bay USB-C 10Gbps Hard Drive Enclosure, Docking Station (DS-SC4B) | DAS JBOD not RAID, 3.5in SATA HDD/SSD, Trayless hot-swap, Up to 80TB, Per-bay switches, Aluminum, Drives not included : Electronics Review: This does exactly what I wanted - simple, drives stay cool, easy power down option - I recently upgraded my Linux workstation to the latest Devuan. I have three large media drives (14TB) which I use for my home cinema (ripped dvd, bd etc via Kodi). The thing about those hard drives is, they are loud when running, and I am sensitive to hum, and the workstation is right next to me all day long. So I generally like to keep the drives asleep (spun down) using hdparm. That worked previously on Debian Stretch, but it no longer works on the latest stable, if I want to have utilities like k3b and rhythmbox then they also pull in udisks2, which wakes my internal hard drives up every few minutes. So aside from removing udisks2 and doing without k3b, the only way to fix this was to move the drives to an external enclosure. Most of the enclosures out there seem to either be really cheap and simple, and they literally toast your hard drive due to lack of adequate cooling; or else they are high-end NAS with their own Operating System and networking. Which you obviously pay for, and I really don't need all that. I just want an enclosure, connecting via USB 3, with good cooling. I tried a different brand unit initially by Orico, which worked fine but the drives ran very hot. So I sent that back and looked further, and found these ones by Sabrent. Encouragingly, when I searched for "cool" and "hot" in the reviews, most people seemed to say that it does have adequate cooling. And it also just "gets out of the way". Now I have used it for a couple of days, I can confirm this is probably the best drive enclosure I have ever used. It is made of metal, very solid, which is refreshing (the Orico, for example, had plastic trays). Insertion of the drives is simple, if you're careful (I read one review that talked about breaking the door latch mechanism because they pushed the drive in too much before closing the door, apparently you leave 1/4" and then let the door closing do the rest). I found that the doors have to be pressed a bit more to get that final "click", otherwise the latch is kind of loose. But once the click happens, just a little one, it's solid. I really like the power button for the individual drives. I agree with others that perhaps it would be better if the default upon powering up would be to power on all occupied bays, but this doesn't really affect me much. I usually keep the drives off anyway, except when in use. The power buttons allow me to power down the drives after I am done watching TV. I unmount all the drives (single script does that quickly) and then manually go through the buttons. You have to press for three seconds each one, but that is a minor hassle. My only minor niggle is that the power buttons are black on black, so it can be hard to find them in a dimly lit room. Basically this thing seems to work, and it's fast, relatively quiet (I am sensitive to noise, and I don't really hear the fan at all - much more noticeable is the hum from the drives themselves, which can't be helped). And it works with Linux. It just... works. Does what I want, nothing more, and looks good on the desk, and feels solid. Very happy! I hope they keep making this one and don't mess it up with some stupid redesign down the line, as many companies seem to do these days. I can't speak to any issues with using more than one drive at a time, as some others talk about. However for my use case, I am generally only using one at a time anyway. I also use one of the bays for a backup drive, but even then, it's the only one being used when I do that. So all seems well, very satisfied. Review: Solid, stable, and fast. - The Sabrent 10-bay USB enclosure is the single best addition to my PC system in years. It's about the size of a medium-sized desktop tower pc. It is solidly built of metal, and is quite heavy. Drives simply slide in to the ten bays, each of which has its own door and it's own power switch. The controller in the enclosure handles handles access and governs traffic, requiring only a single USB-C connection to your laptop or desktop. The internal power supply is fed by a single standard three-prong grounded AC cable. I've found this to be a solid, reliable, and very fast platform for my various SATA drives, and a huge improvement over the tangled bedlam of external single drives, RAID enclosures, power supplies, extension cables, data cables, hubs, power supplies for hubs etc., etc., that had become a plague to my computer system. I see in some reviews that folks have expressed trouble with the drives disconnecting. My experience had been the exact opposite. I think the disconnection troubles I had in the past were due to running through one or more powered USB hubs just to accommodate all the external drives; I think various firmware-based power timeouts were involved. In this case, I've got the entire stack of ten connected to the OC by a single USB cable, going directly into the computer: no hubs. The drives go to sleep, certainly, but awake immediately upon demand. I've had zero trouble with disconnections. This is a big part of why I've characterized this unit as "solid, stable, and fast." This could not be more welcome. A long time pc user, I kind of moved sideways from desktops to laptops as a primary platform, gaining flexibility, portability, and convenience - in many ways. But. In other ways, the laptop form factor imposes strict limitations, most especially, in storage expansion. As a multi-decade serious photographer and at-home video and music producer, the move from analog to digital has introduced serious, grown-up, storage, archive and preservation issues, not to mention capacity issues. So what began for me as a couple of USB external expansion drives grew over time into a glutted city of USB drives and USB RAID enclosures, accompanied by an increasingly unmanageable tangle of cables, power supplies, and hubs. I was plagued with disconnects, time-outs, and other issues, intermittent, yet never ending. This enclosures has alleviated all of that. The drives simply work, and work well. I broke up the RAID-1 enclosures, and over a period of several weeks, sequentially copied all the material on them onto individual drives installed in this enclosure: a kind of extended bucket brigade process. The drives originated mostly as bare drives I already had in use as RAID pairs. As a pair of RAID drives would become empty and available, I split them up, reformatted them, and moved them into the 10-bay enclosure. What about RAID? Well, Windows does a decent job of handling RAID in software. If you think about it, all RAID is actually in software, just some of that software is installed as firmware in hardware. So far, I haven't rebuilt any of the four RAID-1 groups I had before, opting, for now, to manage mirroring and backup manually across the drives in the enclosure. If and when that becomes too unwieldy, I'll move back to RAID-1 pairs, but software-based, on drives in the enclosure. To sum up moving my drives into this enclosure has been a rigorous but welcome project. It has resulted in fewer duplicate management issues, hugely increased efficiency, and much improved reliability. I am delighted with the Sabrent 10-bay enclosure. ## Features - RELIABLE MULTI-DRIVE ACCESS: A dedicated ASMedia ASM1351 controller for each of the four bays gives every drive its own stable, independent connection. For the most reliable link, connect the dock to your computer with a USB-C to USB-C connection. - 4-BAY EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE ENCLOSURE, 10Gbps USB-C: Direct-attached storage for up to four 3.5in SATA HDDs/SSDs (up to 80TB, 4 x 20TB) over one USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C port. Backward compatible with USB 3.0/2.0. Drives are not included; all four bays ship empty. - TRAY-LESS HOT-SWAP WITH SECURITY: Tool-free drive insertion; on/off switch and activity LED per bay, a locking key, and a Kensington slot. - ALUMINUM & METAL BUILD WITH ACTIVE COOLING: Durable aluminum-and-metal housing with a 92mm fan for safe 24/7 operation, powered by an auto-switching 100-240V external adapter for worldwide use. - DIRECT-ATTACHED STORAGE, NOT RAID: Each drive mounts individually (JBOD-style), not hardware RAID. Works with Windows, macOS, and Linux. 1-year warranty (extendable to 2 years with registration). ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B07Y3WDHLD | | Best Sellers Rank | #4 in Hard Drive Docking Stations #48 in Enclosures | | Brand | SABRENT | | Built-In Media | Auto-Switching AC-DC power adapter: 100~240VAC Input., Locking Key., Power Cable., USB Type-C to Type-A cable, Type-A to Type-C adapter. | | Color | Black | | Compatible Devices | Most USB Compatible Devices | | Connectivity Technology | USB | | Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 3,282 Reviews | | Data Transfer Rate | 10 gigabits_per_second | | Enclosure Material | Aluminum | | Global Trade Identification Number | 00840025227262 | | Hard Disk Form Factor | 3.5 inches | | Hardware Interface | USB 3.2 Gen 2, USB Type C | | Hardware Platform | Linux, Mac, Windows | | Item Dimensions L x W x H | 9.1"L x 5.8"W x 5.9"H | | Item Highlight | DAS JBOD not RAID, 3.5in SATA HDD/SSD, Trayless hot-swap, Up to 80TB, Per-bay switches, Aluminum, Drives not included | | Item Type Name | Docking Station | | Item Weight | 9 pounds | | Manufacturer | SABRENT | | Material | Aluminum | | Memory Storage Capacity | 100 TB | | Mfr Part Number | DS-SC4B | | Model Number | DS-SC4B | | Number of Items | 1 | | Product Dimensions | 9.1"L x 5.8"W x 5.9"H | | Supported Devices Quantity | 4 | | UPC | 840025227262 | | Warranty Description | 1 Year limited | ## Product Details - **Brand:** SABRENT - **Color:** Black - **Hardware Interface:** USB 3.2 Gen 2, USB Type C - **Hardware Platform:** Linux, Mac, Windows - **Product Dimensions:** 9.1"L x 5.8"W x 5.9"H ## Images ![4-Bay USB-C 10Gbps Hard Drive Enclosure, Docking Station (DS-SC4B) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71WeUMX5FVL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Size** options. ## Questions & Answers **Q: Does this docking station support RAID?** A: No β€” it’s direct-attached storage (JBOD-style). Each drive mounts individually, like separate USB drives, so there’s no array to configure and nothing to rebuild. **Q: What drives are compatible?** A: Standard 3.5-inch SATA hard drives and SSDs β€” up to four at once (up to 20TB each, 80TB total). **Q: How do I get the most stable connection?** A: Use a USB-C to USB-C cable to your computer rather than a USB-A adapter, on a rear/powered port. Each bay has its own ASMedia controller for a stable, independent link. **Q: Is a cooling fan included, and is it loud?** A: Yes β€” a built-in 92mm fan provides active cooling for safe all-day operation. Some airflow noise is normal. **Q: Do I need software or drivers?** A: No β€” plug-and-play on Windows, macOS, and Linux. New or blank drives may need to be initialized/formatted by your OS first. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This does exactly what I wanted - simple, drives stay cool, easy power down option *by A***R on August 28, 2023* I recently upgraded my Linux workstation to the latest Devuan. I have three large media drives (14TB) which I use for my home cinema (ripped dvd, bd etc via Kodi). The thing about those hard drives is, they are loud when running, and I am sensitive to hum, and the workstation is right next to me all day long. So I generally like to keep the drives asleep (spun down) using hdparm. That worked previously on Debian Stretch, but it no longer works on the latest stable, if I want to have utilities like k3b and rhythmbox then they also pull in udisks2, which wakes my internal hard drives up every few minutes. So aside from removing udisks2 and doing without k3b, the only way to fix this was to move the drives to an external enclosure. Most of the enclosures out there seem to either be really cheap and simple, and they literally toast your hard drive due to lack of adequate cooling; or else they are high-end NAS with their own Operating System and networking. Which you obviously pay for, and I really don't need all that. I just want an enclosure, connecting via USB 3, with good cooling. I tried a different brand unit initially by Orico, which worked fine but the drives ran very hot. So I sent that back and looked further, and found these ones by Sabrent. Encouragingly, when I searched for "cool" and "hot" in the reviews, most people seemed to say that it does have adequate cooling. And it also just "gets out of the way". Now I have used it for a couple of days, I can confirm this is probably the best drive enclosure I have ever used. It is made of metal, very solid, which is refreshing (the Orico, for example, had plastic trays). Insertion of the drives is simple, if you're careful (I read one review that talked about breaking the door latch mechanism because they pushed the drive in too much before closing the door, apparently you leave 1/4" and then let the door closing do the rest). I found that the doors have to be pressed a bit more to get that final "click", otherwise the latch is kind of loose. But once the click happens, just a little one, it's solid. I really like the power button for the individual drives. I agree with others that perhaps it would be better if the default upon powering up would be to power on all occupied bays, but this doesn't really affect me much. I usually keep the drives off anyway, except when in use. The power buttons allow me to power down the drives after I am done watching TV. I unmount all the drives (single script does that quickly) and then manually go through the buttons. You have to press for three seconds each one, but that is a minor hassle. My only minor niggle is that the power buttons are black on black, so it can be hard to find them in a dimly lit room. Basically this thing seems to work, and it's fast, relatively quiet (I am sensitive to noise, and I don't really hear the fan at all - much more noticeable is the hum from the drives themselves, which can't be helped). And it works with Linux. It just... works. Does what I want, nothing more, and looks good on the desk, and feels solid. Very happy! I hope they keep making this one and don't mess it up with some stupid redesign down the line, as many companies seem to do these days. I can't speak to any issues with using more than one drive at a time, as some others talk about. However for my use case, I am generally only using one at a time anyway. I also use one of the bays for a backup drive, but even then, it's the only one being used when I do that. So all seems well, very satisfied. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Solid, stable, and fast. *by I***Y on April 13, 2024* The Sabrent 10-bay USB enclosure is the single best addition to my PC system in years. It's about the size of a medium-sized desktop tower pc. It is solidly built of metal, and is quite heavy. Drives simply slide in to the ten bays, each of which has its own door and it's own power switch. The controller in the enclosure handles handles access and governs traffic, requiring only a single USB-C connection to your laptop or desktop. The internal power supply is fed by a single standard three-prong grounded AC cable. I've found this to be a solid, reliable, and very fast platform for my various SATA drives, and a huge improvement over the tangled bedlam of external single drives, RAID enclosures, power supplies, extension cables, data cables, hubs, power supplies for hubs etc., etc., that had become a plague to my computer system. I see in some reviews that folks have expressed trouble with the drives disconnecting. My experience had been the exact opposite. I think the disconnection troubles I had in the past were due to running through one or more powered USB hubs just to accommodate all the external drives; I think various firmware-based power timeouts were involved. In this case, I've got the entire stack of ten connected to the OC by a single USB cable, going directly into the computer: no hubs. The drives go to sleep, certainly, but awake immediately upon demand. I've had zero trouble with disconnections. This is a big part of why I've characterized this unit as "solid, stable, and fast." This could not be more welcome. A long time pc user, I kind of moved sideways from desktops to laptops as a primary platform, gaining flexibility, portability, and convenience - in many ways. But. In other ways, the laptop form factor imposes strict limitations, most especially, in storage expansion. As a multi-decade serious photographer and at-home video and music producer, the move from analog to digital has introduced serious, grown-up, storage, archive and preservation issues, not to mention capacity issues. So what began for me as a couple of USB external expansion drives grew over time into a glutted city of USB drives and USB RAID enclosures, accompanied by an increasingly unmanageable tangle of cables, power supplies, and hubs. I was plagued with disconnects, time-outs, and other issues, intermittent, yet never ending. This enclosures has alleviated all of that. The drives simply work, and work well. I broke up the RAID-1 enclosures, and over a period of several weeks, sequentially copied all the material on them onto individual drives installed in this enclosure: a kind of extended bucket brigade process. The drives originated mostly as bare drives I already had in use as RAID pairs. As a pair of RAID drives would become empty and available, I split them up, reformatted them, and moved them into the 10-bay enclosure. What about RAID? Well, Windows does a decent job of handling RAID in software. If you think about it, all RAID is actually in software, just some of that software is installed as firmware in hardware. So far, I haven't rebuilt any of the four RAID-1 groups I had before, opting, for now, to manage mirroring and backup manually across the drives in the enclosure. If and when that becomes too unwieldy, I'll move back to RAID-1 pairs, but software-based, on drives in the enclosure. To sum up moving my drives into this enclosure has been a rigorous but welcome project. It has resulted in fewer duplicate management issues, hugely increased efficiency, and much improved reliability. I am delighted with the Sabrent 10-bay enclosure. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ works about as well as any multi-drive station i've ever used *by A***A on September 21, 2022* i bought this to replace a different brand's 4-bay USB drive station. that one was falling apart and close to 4 years old, so i was keen to see what little quality of life improvements could be brought to a product category that's otherwise pretty stagnant. the good parts are all the parts you see in the specs: - 10gbps - USB-C - 4 bay SATA ports - rocker power switch in the rear - seems to cool the drives competently enough that i didn't get worried about them the only major issue i had was that the enclosure seemed to briefly lose power overnight, and when it got back on power, it didn't return the HDDs to the state they were in before - it left them all unpowered. a lot of reviews are calling this a nice power-saving feature, and to each their own, but HDDs use like 10w at idle, so i don't consider these to be especially large targets for power saving (at least, not in my home). it's not clear to me yet whether the enclosure lost power on its own (eg some fault in the electronics that forced it to power cycle?) or if electricity was just... inconsistent overnight. everything else in the room seems to be in the state it was left in the previous evening, so i'm leaning towards assuming that the device was faulty. which would be a minor (but totally acceptable) annoyance if the drives went back to the states they were originally in. but that wasn't the situation here. i might be tempted to open the enclosure and see if there's a way to make the enclosure automatically give power to the drives, basically rendering the power switches always activated, but my hunch is that would absolutely wreck the enclosure, and it would be a better use of my time to just buy a different enclosure if it bothers me that much. but this seemed to be the best-reviewed 4-drive enclosure that isn't shockingly expensive. so given those constraints, this is probably the best option there is. and, to be honest, if the enclosure only lost power because of a storm overnight or something like that, then it's not even really the enclosure's fault that it lost power, so i'm willing to cut it some slack. i'll need more time to narrow down what caused it to lose power, and whether i can avoid that in the future. ## Frequently Bought Together - SABRENT USB 3.2 4 Bay 3.5" SATA Hard Drive Tray Less Docking Station (DS-SC4B) - SABRENT 2.5” SSD & SATA Hard Drive to Desktop 3.5” SATA Bay Converter Mounting Kit (BK-PCBS) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - πŸ›’ **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** β€” Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** β€” Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - πŸ’° **No Hidden Fees** β€” All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - πŸ”„ **15-Day Free Returns** β€” Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - πŸ”’ **Secure Payments** β€” Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** β€” Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sc/products/170780734-4-bay-usb-c-10gbps-hard-drive-enclosure-docking-station](https://www.desertcart.sc/products/170780734-4-bay-usb-c-10gbps-hard-drive-enclosure-docking-station) --- *Product available on Desertcart Seychelles* *Store origin: SC* *Last updated: 2026-09-15*