MAIWO USB C Docking Station for M.2 PCIe NVMe + 2.5 3.5 Inch SATA SSD/HDD with Offline Clone, Clone HDD to NVMe SSD, USB 3.2 GEN 2 10Gbps External Hard Drive Enclosure

Quiet and easy to set up!

HD was easy to install and worked as expected.

After installation in a USB-C external enclosure, a nine-hour(!) bad block scan, Paragon Hard Disk Manager verified that there are no bad blocks on this HDD as received; no problems were encountered at all on a Windows 11 system.

I was impressed enough with the first enclosure that I bought a second one. The throughput with a mechanical hard drive was about 340MBs which is about what I expected. When I daisy chained a second enclosure to the first drive, I only got about 45MBs on the second one. Thinking it was the hard drive I connected the second enclosure directly to my computer (Mac Studio) and was getting about the same 340MBs as the drive. I expected a little drop but not this much considering the enclosures were connected to a Thunderbolt 4 port. So in summary daisy chained enclosures do not work very well for throughput.

excellent product, well made, reliable comes with all accessories. bonus for having a toggle on-off switch and usb-c port

Turns off after very short period of inactivity, maybe 15 minutes or so. And you have to physically press the button on it to turn it back on again. i tried to work around this by setting up a periodic job to read 100MB of random data from the disk every 5 minutes, but the longest I've gotten it to stay on is around 12 hours. It doesn't ever stay on longer than that. There is no way to configure this either. It will not accept reconfiguration via hdparm/sdparm to disable standby. And since you have to physically press the button to turn it back on again, it makes it impossible to use it for periodic backups. Not worth the $20.

I gave it three stars for 3 key reasons from a usability perspective.1. The cable to connect the drive to your system is very short.2. My hard drive with an existing partition and data cannot be seen in this unit. But connected anywhere else it can. I will have to put the data elsewhere and reformat the disk in this unit order to use in this case.3. While there is an indicator light on the back, it should be on the front of the case not the back.All that aside it has many good qualities. The unit is constructed well and made out of good materials. There are many functional features including power control, charging ports, daisy chaining the drives, and lays on its side rather that standing up (which is an accident waiting to happen). Other external cases have plastic shells that don't' conduct heat well and set the drive on it's side. This is very dangerous with a spinning disk. I've ordered some longer USB 3 ( USB-C to USSB-A) cables to solve the length issues.But knowing what I know would I buys these again? Most definitely !

I had the need for speed, and these enclosure gave it to me by simply inserting the drives and screwing the case together. While it does come with a power supply, I am powering it through a 100 W USB C 3.2 hub. I bought 2 of them. I am very very happy about it. the USB 3.1 speed increase improves my data throughput by a lot over USB 3. I am adding my 2.5 inch SSD Drives and M.2 SSD drives onto a 100W USB C powered 10Gbps hub that has made me buy 2 of these, 2 M.2 SSD enclosures, a full set of high speed cables, and these are a dream. I will now have 10 mixed types of USB 3.1 and 3.2 SSD drives all available at the same time with a major speed upgrade.