Best Dual Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] The Plugable USB 3 Universal Docking Station for Dual Monitor in Black color features a hybrid 2-in-1 USB 3.0 and USB-C cable, and supports dual HDMI, and comes with 2 Year Warranty, which is amazing. This laptop docking station's compatibility is universal and it is compatible with Windows 11, 10, 8.x and 7, macOS 10.14 or later, and ChromeOS 100 or later. Plug and play driver installation via Windows Update; manual driver installation on macOS. Dock does not charge host PC. I have already recommended the Plugable USB 3 Universal Docking Station for Dual Monitor to many of my friends and family and several of them have already purchased and used this docking station to manage their dual monitors quite easily and they all love to use this device.

If you have a lot of loose hard drive but don't want to buy an enclosure for each drive, you need this docking station.

I'm using this Seagate 8TB drive in a dual external bay, next to my Seagate 4TB to backup the backup of my photos and music. It's quiet even when writing, and it backs up my photos at approximately 145MB per second. I also use it as a scratch disc when using Photoshop. It goes to sleep after about 20 minutes of non-use, as it should, and takes about 10-15 seconds to wake up.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Using the docking station to drive two monitors and a few external drives. Works as advertised.

This hard drive docking station is terific in a lab environment or anywhere you need to format or image a large volume of drives. It supports both 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch drives over USB 3.0 so speed is not an issue. When connecting the smaller 2.5 inch drives a plastic shield pops up to protect the internals from dust, etc. If I had to change one thing about this docking station it would be to have a similar protection shield when no drives are in use but this is only a minor annoyance. I received this product in exchange for an unbiased review.

I bought this to access data from orphan drives taken from my multi-bay external hard drive. It's easy to install a drive in the enclosure and my iMac immediately recognized the drive on startup. Transfer speeds were fine for my purpose (copying files from the drive). A good solution for me at a reasonable price.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I needed a docking station that does it all....dual monitors, Ethernet, power and sound. This one does it and does it well.

I got two of these drives to put into an OWC external hard drive case (dual elite mini) in RAID 0 for 16TB of storage. I love how fast this setup is, it's bus powered, and noiseless/fanless. So far I have not had any problems and everything has been perfectly reliable.

I used this internal hard drive with 3 others for my Four Bay Hard Drive enclosure. Easy to install, didn't give me any hard time. It's fast enough.

If you are looking for an excellent docking station, this one is for you!