I bought the Sabrent ED-DFLT enclosure so that I could format various hard drives on my iMac. It's a rather long story, which I'll shorten to this: I confirmed that the Sabrent enclosure worked when I received it by using an old 2TB drive. I then tossed the box and waited for my 6TB Western Digital Caviar Green drive to arrive from Amazon a couple of weeks later. When plopped into the Sabrent, the new drive showed up on my Mac's desktop. I then set about creating a large encrypted disk image on the drive. It chugged away for 4 full days, seemingly working for the first 3. But after day 4, the formatting was clearly hung, and it had taken my Mac down with it. Upon rebooting, the drive no longer showed up at all. Disk Utility could not even see it. After a lot of detective work, too long to describe here, I confirmed that the 6TB drive was still working fine, but the Sabrent logic board had died, obviously a case of infant mortality. The good news: it can handle large capacity hard drives. The bad news: not for very long... And of course, since I tossed the boxing, there is no returning the Sabrent. I therefore spent $23 on a brick, although it won't break me. This case of infant mortality is probably just a fluke, but an annoying one when it happens to you. I should have kept the box a while longer. My bad. UPDATE 1/2118: To Sabrent's great credit, and this is going back about 2.5 years ago, they stepped in and replaced the enclosure, no charge. I tested it but ran into issues trying to do the above formatting again, and threw it on my junk pile. With hindsight, I'm now realizing that the issue was most likely the hard drive I was using, which I got by ripping open a Western Digital external hard drive and removing it. There's something odd about the firmware in these drives. They're just "not right" when taken out of their manufacturer's shell and fully exposed like this. I think my issue was the hard drive, and NOT Sabrent. Coupled with their excellent customer service, I've now increased the rating to five stars. Because ... I just bought some 8TB Hitachi hard drives and it was time to format them, again with encryption. These are new, bare hard drives from Amazon, not something I ripped out of an external HD box! Fortunately, I still had the Sabrent enclosure, so I pulled one off the pile, attached the 12V/1.5A power adapter to it, put the 8TB drive in, connected to my Mac Mini, and just like that, the hard drive mounted on the desktop. I formatted it in HFS+, then created a new encrypted disk image, and let it run. This time, all went well. I discovered that if you open Sierra's Activity Monitor and click on Disk Activity, you get a readout of how fast the data is moving across the interface. I was seeing it move between 110 - 160 MB/sec, averaging about 130 MB/sec. That's not bad at all on my 2012 iMac with a 4-core i7 processor running Sierra (12.6). It's not the fastest i7 there is, so you have to remember that there are calculations that first have to be made before the data can be spit out of the USB3 ports for writing. That takes time to execute, which has to slow transfers down somewhat. USB of any speed never hits its theoretical maximum anyway (4.8Gbps for USB3, or about 600 MB/sec). Considering I was getting only 25 MB/sec with USB2 on this same machine (theoretical maximum speed = 60 MB/sec), actual speeds are less than theoretical speeds by about the same factor for each version of USB. The full 8TB of writing took 17 hours, which averages out to 130 MB/sec, consistent with what I see in Activity Monitor. I would say that's pretty good. I'm happy. Side note: I got to wondering about Sabrent's advice to run a firmware update. I'm a Mac guy, but I have an old PC running XP. I thought I would take a stab at the upgrade. I downloaded it to the PC, but the update would not run at all. You tell it to RUN the update and nothing happens. My neighbor has a PC running Windows 10, so I took the dock, power supply, and a USB cable to his place. He downloaded the update to his PC, followed the .pdf instructions exactly, the interface presented is NOT what the .pdf shows, but tried running it anyway. Same issue: hit the RUN button and nothing happens. It doesn't freeze or anything like that. It simply does nothing. So much for that! The key point I'm making is that this same dock that I bought 2.5 years ago (August 2015) easily sees my 8TB drives, runs flawlessly, and runs quite fast, all with no firmware update whatsoever. I don't understand Sabrent's statement that older docks (2.5 years old?) without an update are limited to 4TB. Not mine! I do not understand why other commenters can't get it to work right. It works perfectly for me. Considering Sabrent's great customer support, excellent USB3 performance, full support for an 8TB drive, and it's very low price, I gotta give it 5 stars! UPDATE 1/30/2018: Plugging into two different iMacs running Snow Leopard (10.6.8), neither can see any drive plugged into it. Odd, since at one time it could/did. I don't know what the difference is, but if you're running Snow Leopard, you might consider passing on the Sabrent. UPDATE 2/12/2018: Okay, so the Sabrent isn't happy with Snow Leopard. Separately, I plugged the Sabrent into my 2012 Mac Mini w/i7 processor and running Sierra (12.6). I plugged a second, different external USB3 drive enclosure to another port, loaded a pair of 8TB X300 Toshiba hard drives in each, and proceeded to move data from one drive to the other. Measured speed is about 130 MB/sec, which is about max transfer rates that these hard drives can deliver. No complaints!

Good, simple, plug-and-play tech. I've used mine to access drives from old dead computers and laptops, creating new boot drives and saving data for myself, my family, my friends, and IT support clients. I've owned a number of Sabrent items over the years and they have always come in incredibly handy and never failed me. This external hard drive docking station is no exception. In a world of expensive tech that looks super cool and fails, it's nice to experience a good, proper product like this every once in a while!

Cannibalized my old PC. I've bought two of the external SATA lay flat docking stations and they work just fine. The old drives snap in with no issues and has allowed me to save the data. Transfer of information is a decent speed - but the key here is you don't have to mount the drives in your new PC to extract data. Excellent product at a reasonable price. Highly recommended.

It's a great product to use a desktop-sized HDD externally, and it protects it from dust or other dirt by keeping it in the enclosure. It's USB 3 and is plug-and-play, so it works on any platform, even for booting. The plug also supports swapping to different socket types, although it doesn't come with any on its own. My main complaint is that this is the second enclosure I've had to use because my original one eventually stopped working after a few years of use. The power button would bring power to the HDD, but the indicator light would not turn on, which is tied to some circuitry inside related to communicating with the connected computer, so the HDD would be on and spinning, but the computer could not see it. It would take several attempts for the indicator to turn on so it would work. Ironically, the HDD it held lasted longer than its enclosure, despite it being the component under the most stress and working with moving parts.

The device is well made and works as expected on Dell Windows 11. I used it to transfer files from old drive to drive on new Dell PC. No applications were installed on the new PC yet. But beware if using Windows 11. Some odd behaviors occurred including instability and unexplained issues, like Applications installed on the old drive suddenly appearing on the desktop in spite of them not being installed on the PC's new C: drive. Office is on the old drive, but appeared on the desktop on the new computer even though I had not installed it on the new computer. I have heard of similar issues in Windows 11. So I transferred the files and turned-off the docking station. Windows 11 seems to hunt around and make visible apps on the drive in the docking station. Or something like that. I am not an expert.

Worked great... Plug and play-ed. Was able to recover the hard drive and all of my old music/photos. It's worth the time and money. It'll help friends out too.

This device helped me to get the information from my old hdd, because now I have no PC and it was only one way to connect my old HDDs. Very easy to mount and unmount, has a button for turning off, very comfy to use. Fast reading. Design looks great.

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As the title says, it is a cheap quality. The outside cover is an almost titanium feel however its quite obviously aluminum or another cheap metal because of its listing price. The value for the money is ok, and its what you expect for around $40, and I don't think you can get anything better than this for its price. Once you open up the enclosure, there is a plastic box (no not metal like on the outside) which you can reveal by pushing the "power button" and sliding open the cover. There is only the port and nothing else inside. I have tested with a 3.5in and a 2.5in hard drive and it works very well. As the ad claims, the writing and reading speeds are very fast, and you do not need to install any drivers, as it is a plug and play device. I may have mentioned before that the build quality was cheap, but it was still sturdy and didn't seem like it would break anytime soon, so don't listen to the reviews that state that it would break easily, they most likely had a defective model, and if your luck is good you might have one in an OK condition. This device also came with a power adapter, which I didn't think it would need in the first place, as I thought that it would just plug into the computer and use the computer's power as the power source. So if you want a plug and play device with no external power, I recommend that you go somewhere else. The power brick that comes with it is also very chunky so it may not fit on all ports. Overall, the product is very good if you dont mind looks and the power supply. I would give this product 4.5/5 stars if it was possible but it leans more to the good side than the bad. Note: The "power button" doesn't do anything, there is a power button on the front of the device that actually works. however the big blue one does nothing except open the closure.

I am very much pleased with this unit. Very fast and silence.

J'ai récemment récupéré quelques HD de 1To et je cherchais un boitier commode pour les essayer. Le boitier SABRENT me semble parfaitement adapté à cette utilisation, car c'est très rapide de passer d'un disque à l'autre. Le boitier est également parfaitement reconnu par mon MAC. Très bonne acquisition