External Hard Drive Enclosure, VSVABEFV 3.5 2.5 Inch SATA HDD USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive Docking Station with 12V Power Adapter, Support UASP and 8TB Drives

I have 2 external drives that failed on me. After opening their cases I discovered that the circuit boards had fried. Hoping the drivers themselves were still good I tried this dock. It worked with no issues and the drives were recognized by my PC. There is a slight delay, no more than ten seconds when accessing the drives. But once opened videos and music work without freezing. I did put a dust cover over the unused slots to protect them.

Bought one of these, and it wouldn't even power up the hard drive. Send it back and exchanged it for another one figuring I got a lemon. The replacement didn't work either. Obviously, I wouldn't advise buying one of these.

I have a lot of old IDE drives 2.5 and 3.5. Some work while others not so much. I've been in IT for over 30+ years so having a tool such as this is awesome for copying data from old drives.Reads Sata drives as well.Not really a fan of those cables that have connections built into them. So far its read every IDE or Sata drive I've connected to it.

I'm happy with this docking station as it's adds convenience with accessing IDE and SATA without having to open the desktop case to add and remove drives. It even managed to read a drive I thought was dead, that was a happy day, still able to use the drive. And having all the other ports for different card formats on the front is a plus for older formats, many which has gone bye-bye. Tech moves so fast. The reason for the four stars is the sliding Molex plug in the station, to me it seems that this could be a weak point if the contacts fail. IIRC this is also a USB 1.0 and 2.0, not a 3.0 so your R/W speeds will be slower. Make sure to match your desire USB speeds to your device.

It’s pretty good ,feels cheap but operates the way it it’s advertised just can’t move the bay while hardrive spinning cause files won’t go through, best feature I think this has that a lot of hd bay don’t have a ide a slot but this one does and it can move the molex port left to right only had it for a week

When it does work, it's great, but sometimes it doesen't see the drive in it. Then I use my other device.

I had an old desktop that finally died on me. I salvaged the reusable components, including a 1 TB hard drive. The new computer's hard drive was a bit on the small side, so I ordered this casing and installed the 1 TB drive. Plugged in the power cord and the USB and now I have plenty of drive space!

SATA works fine but IDE only spins up and doesn't show up.