WAVLINKUSB 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

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.

Works, copy or cloning works better than expected. I wanted to clone a 2.5 500 GB HHD, drive with linux OS to a 2.5 1TB SSD. Cloned it perfectly. Swapped drives,power up and was running perfectly. Did what I needed. Worth the price. And work with linux as well.As most know cloning a drive can be difficult depending upon many factors.The down side! It was slow took about an hour to clone, but worth it. Set and forget, came back later it was waiting cloning complete. This should be a tool in your bag of tricks. Plus it has so many other uses.

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.

The WavLink USB 3.0 Dual-Bay Docking Station, for it's price, is a handy device to have around the office. It's sturdy and stable with a convenient and small footprint. As a dock, it's pretty decent. I ran a test, copying a large file over USB (using a 3.0 port) with the WavLink, and then copying the same file with the same hard drive (freshly formatted) but connected directly to the computer - the difference in transfer times was was less than 30 seconds which is negligible for the convenience. I also tried running a standalone game (Guild Wars 2) directly from the docked hard drive and there was no noticeable lag or difference in loading times. Both slots can be used at the same time for dual-docking, although you need to be sure the drives are properly set up. If your drive isn't showing up on Windows, you may need to open the "Disk Management" tool and make it into a new Simple Volume (Warning: this will format/erase the drive.) I never had a problem mounting a drive in Linux, so if you're stuck and don't want to lose the data, just load up a Linux Live USB and transfer the data from there first. I did not test booting an operating system from the drive, so no comment on that.As a disk cloning tool, it's less than great and I would generally not suggest using this function. It works alright if you are making a 1:1 copy (as in, both drives are the exact same size) but can cause problems with missing partition tables and duplicated drive signatures. If the target drive is larger, it will make the source copy over as a partition, which is absolutely not ideal. It will not copy at all if the target drive is smaller than the source, even if the data on the smaller drive is less than the bigger drive. This style of cloning is maybe fine in an office setting where you need to produce pre-installed staff computers which all use the same hardware en-mass and network installing is not an option, but this is a very specific scenario and I can't see the cloning tool as-is advisable for your regular user - it's certainly not a selling point.I will also comment about the customer service - I had a small issue and it took a bit of running around with WavLink directly to get an answer. In the end, the issue got solved, but I could tell initially I was getting responses that did not regard the status of my order (for example, I was told to please be patient with shipping due to COVID-19 when the item had already arrived.) My suggestion to WavLink is to be sure of the actual status of the order and issue before replying, and my suggestion to anyone having an issue is to be patient and clear - there is a bit of a language barrier but the representatives will help you if you can work with them.Here are the measurements in case someone needs them:Base Size: 5x5"(depth) 4.75"(width) 2.75"(height)Power Cable Length: 56" (not including the power brick)USB Cable Length: 29"

Have been using it for several weeks now and no complaints. Good quality.

Great item. Very useful.