SABRENT DSH-USB2 SATA 2.5-Inch and 3.5-Inch Hard Drive to USB 2.0 Docking Station
- With this external hard drive enclosure you have the option of using either a 2.5-inch SATA hard drive or 3.5-inch SATA hard drive!
- With the USB 2.0 interface you get data transfer rates up to 480 Mbps
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USB2.0 TO SATA 2.5&3.5 HD USB PERPDOCKING STATION… More >>
SABRENT DSH-USB2 SATA 2.5-Inch and 3.5-Inch Hard Drive to USB 2.0 Docking Station
For those of you who had problems did you use disk manager and initialize the drive? It will never be seen until this step is done! Mine works great, much cheaper than buying an external drive. Just drop a 2 tb internal drive into it, INITIALIZE it and you have a huge external drive for a fraction of the price of one of those pretty external drives.
Rating: 4 / 5
Don’t buy this one. It has difficulty being recognized by WIN XP.
Tried on several computers, finally gave up. Sabrent has virtually
no tech support. Buy it. Flip a coint to see if it works. China Junk!
Rating: 1 / 5
I have one for over a year and I use it with many different drives and have had no problems. Unlike others here mine just works. As I work on computers, I take customers drives out of their machines, desktop and laptop Sata’s, and I can then delete spyware, and virus that much more easily and also retrieve info from defective drives using recovery programs. I also have a external setup for IDE drives but not as clean or convenient.
Rating: 4 / 5
Don’t get this item. You’ll be disappointed if you do. Drives do NOT easily slide into the unit. Gently setting the drive down into the unit makes no connection with the contacts inside and when attempting to push the drive down onto the pins inside, the drive cannot sit up straight like it appears it should. The worst part is, though, if it is not inserted just right, you will bend and/or break the pins on your drives and ruin them. On the very first drive I inserted, smoke actually started coming up out of the unit and a small place was burned on the drive. This is NOT a very sturdy product and I could not even get the software installed or the unit to be recognized on my computer. I ruined both a 2.5 and a 3.5 drive. I cannot get reimbursed for damages to my property, but I was at least allowed to return the product to the seller. This seemed like a good concept, but the actual product is poorly designed and constructed. Perhaps another product that is supposed to do the same thing would be made better and work better, but now I’m afraid to try anything else. Besides, all my drives are ruined now and I have no need for a unit like this anymore.
Rating: 1 / 5
Worked for a couple of days, then was no longer recognized by computer (showed as “unknown device” in device manager, and Windows reported no drivers installed for the device). I tried using the “driver” disk that came with it- no dice. Went to the manufacturers website- no drivers available because it is supposed to be PnP. I tried it on an XP computer and a Vista computer. It looks cheap, feels cheap, and it didn’t work.
Rating: 1 / 5