USB HDD dock (dual slot)

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Hi all

Not sure if this should be here or in storage.

is it ok to use these instead of a HDD enclosure for general use?
trying to avoid using 2 power outlets and have fewer wires in my jungle of a lab

also, do you have access to both connected drives or are the 2 slots only used for cloning purposes?

cheers
 
i used to use an 8 slot duplicator as a multi-hdd dock so i don't see why not. I do have a dual dock as well like yourself and remember they show as 2 separate drives. Good for general stuff and even better as a hot-swap alternative
 
Sweet! 2 separate drives is what I was hoping for. Going to crack open my nas drives and transfer over the disks to a dock (to use with my windows 10 Mac mini server) but I need to also buy another drive first to get all the data off as I think the ns drives will be encrypted
 
I haven't done anything yet.
since you mentioned the 8 bay dock I've been looking some more and now have my eye on a 4 bay dock.
I can't really afford to spend on this at the moment but trying to figure out what I need (if I even really need it)
My issue was that for some reason the server wouldn't recognise the 3TB USB which I've now reattached and it seems to work just fine so ill be moving data all day yay
I will pick up a dock or encloser to tidy things up at some point :D
 
I also have a 4 bay dock, and looking at the connections uses a usb3 printer usb port... can't remember the name of the type.. looks like a small square on top of a bigger square (too lazy to google it) and has its own 4pin power brick.

Haven't used it in a while, so i can't tell you transfer speeds, or whetehr there are limitations in terms of write/read speeds to and from 4 disks connected
 
im guessing the usb bus will be the bottleneck.
one of my usb2 hard drives has a hub which I connect other external drives to and if I try to access them simultaneously or transfer from drive to drive I get reduced speeds so assume it would be the same on usb3

i think that's just a standard usb3b connector
 
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