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Slick Design
Customers are highly satisfied with the sleek design and functionality of the ORICO hard drive docking station, praising its ease of use and convenience.
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Multiple Hard Drive Slots
Customers generally praise the ORICO 2.5 inch & 3.5 inch eSATA & USB 3.0 Hard Drive Docking Station for its ability to accommodate multiple hard drives, with some expressing satisfaction in using it for data backup and media storage purposes. A few users have noted that the power switch on the docking station is convenient for managing external hard drives, while others suggest that labeling the slots would be helpful. Overall, this product is considered a cost-effective solution for expanding storage capacity and accessing multiple hard drives externally. However, some users mention an annoyance with the dis
Raid Support
Customers have positive experiences with the ORICO hard drive docking station for RAID support, praising its ease of use and functionality in setting up a backup system or data recovery. However, some users encountered issues with compatibility on certain operating systems and occasional hardware failures requiring customer support that was unresponsive.
Disk Duplication
Customers have mixed opinions on disk duplication with the product, while some are pleased with its ability to duplicate drives and format them for extra storage, others have reported issues with the clone feature not working as advertised and slow cloning process.
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Quality
Had for 1 year, works great connected to my pc (with win 10) for multiple 2 terra hard drive which connects to big screen tv, m... Read More
Works great, no issues with using this docking station.
Any time you install or remove a drive, all drives in this dock drop for a moment and windows 10 loses its mind over it.
Enabling ntfs compression bought back that 10% overhead for the mostly pdf data i was archiving, so this single disk held 4 tb of data.
Price
This was the cheapest solution, and it performs great.
Transfer speeds are pretty good and definitely tax the usb 3.
There is obviously more demand than supply at the moment, so if you can get it for anywhere near the $39 i paid for it on amazo... Read More
And that cost savings is causal to allot of frustration with the public at large.
Shipping
Since then, it seems to now be available only from third-party sellers and is not able to be shipped via amazon prime.
Competitiveness
Orico appears to be the source for the same units sold by other distributors.
If you take a look on ebay you will find that most vendors are marking the product up considerably from amazon's price.
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- This product had a total of 143 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 13 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Currently have 3 hard drives dock on this device
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Gets the job done but not fast enough
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I thought it was doa and i was all set to send it back until i realized that on the back there is a switch to go from hd copier to hd reader
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I didnt receive what is shown in the photo
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I ordered the single bay and got something that i honestly like better
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I first gave this a negative review because it seemed as if it was incompatible with the new mac pro and would eject disks randomly
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Over a few weeks this problem began happening to a number of peripherals and in the end it turned out that a usb cabe to the hub was going bad and the first device to get affected was this one
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The back has a switch to toggle between duplicate mode and pc mode and has a small start button
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