ORICO USB 3.0 4-Bay Hard Drive Docking Station and Clone for 2.5 and 3.5 Inch SATA III HDDs/SSDs

Use this to make physical copies of my backup drives and it works perfectly. Easily justifiable price.

3 years and had no problems,it is on 15 hours a day and never glitched.great product.

I got this to solve an issue I had with a RAID array. I had 3 old Barracuda 2 tb disks that I had set up as a 6 tb RAID to use for backups. Problem was that the arrangement was using 3 USB ports on my Mac Mini. I popped the 3 disks into the dock and the RAID worked perfectly and uses just 1 USB port. No issues at all, worked straight out of the box. I have another 3 tb disk in the 4th slot for additional storage.

I use a couple of these with a mini PC as a decent value NAS for backups/media. Speeds are fine, however one big disadvantage is that after a power cut, the docks won't come back and the attached PC won't be able to see the drives until you physically power the docks on using the button on the top. That's a great shame- if they auto-powered on, or at least returned to the last power state, they'd be perfect.Noticed a few users complaining that the drives power off. That's a Windows issue, not a dock issue- make sure you disable USB power saving in Power Management.

This is definitely one of my better purchases. I originally had a 4-disk NAS which was glitchy and an ongoing nightmare to work with. Transferring files from it to the PC was such a drag because it took forever.So I purchased this 4-bay Hard Drive Docking Station as a replacement for the NAS, and used the 4 HD's from the NAS in it. I have never looked back!Installing it was really easy - just plug and play. I now have 16TB (4x 4TB) of storage with instant, trouble-free access.The USB 3.0 means lightning-quick file transfers between the HD's and the PC. I just usually drag/drop everything via windows explorer. Saving files to this docking station seems just as fast as saving them to any internal drives.I have zero regrets buying it and recommend it to anyone who wants more storage (Just make sure you have an available USB 3.0 port.)

Sadly this device will only register 4 TB of storage space. I have 3 x 2 TB drives, and I plug the device into a Windows 11 PC. Individually the drives are all recognised by the bay and all the slots are working. However, no matter what combination of drives or slots I use, I can only get the device to see 2 drives at a time, giving me only 4 TB. Have contacted ORICO for assistance but nothing heard back from them yet.I'll keep the bay as it is still handy to see more storage attached to the PC when I'm moving my movie files around between drives, instead of having to keep swapping them in my one bay device.It does 'a' job but not the one it says it does.

This is a very temperamental piece of kit. The HUB is connected to a Laptop running Windows 10. I've plugged in 3 4TB 3.5" SATA drives sometimes the hub works for hours, three blue lights and everything's ok. Then sometimes, seemingly at random, I get a 'pinkish' light and the disc management daemon on my laptop comes out in sympathy and nothing works until I a) reset the hub, b) switch it off and on again or c) take the drive out and put it back in again. Then again I get all of the indicator lights going out but I can still access the drives, or the lights go out and I can't access the drives but disc management is still working. There doesn't seem to be a coherent way to trouble shoot the hub and the online help is vague, seemingly wanting prioritize cloning discs rather than just acting as disc controller/hub.Think long and hard about this thing before purchasing.It must be reading my review as it's just switched itself off.

Great bit of kitI use it many for hot swapping Sata DrivesYet to use clone function but so far I am impressed with build quality