Docking stations

Brendan Mulachy

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My computer recently died..its replacement had a 2tb ssd and 3 sata drives in, I've already replaced 2 of the sata drives for my old 1tb ssd and 2tb sata, I can't fit any more drives onto the motherboard but I'm left with a 128g ssd drive and 2 1tb sata drives that came out, seems a shame to chuck them and I can't be bothered selling them or rebuilding my old computer...so I'm thinking if buying a docking station and using these drives as an extra back up..do docking stations work , are they slow to transfer ( I'd do it overnight so not that much of an issue) and are they reliable so that any pictures etc are not corrupted or missing...looking for real world views of people who have used them...if not is there an alternative, I already have a couple of external drives
 
Docking stations work, transfer speed depends on the station you buy and the usb ports. You could also buy caddys for the drives and plug them in individually, or buy a NAS to put the drives in.

Lots of options for reusing the drives.
 
ancient_mariner said:
Docking stations work, transfer speed depends on the station you buy and the usb ports. You could also buy caddys for the drives and plug them in individually, or buy a NAS to put the drives in.

Lots of options for reusing the drives.
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Perfect, il scope one out and use it as extra back up
 
FWIW I use one of this type of connector to attach SATA drives (both SSD and HDD):

I also have a caddy like this with a 12TB drive in it:

This is the docking station I use to connect various things together including running 2 screens from my laptop and a webcam for work:
 
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