What is Reddit's opinion of SABRENT USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III Dual Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD, SSD with Hard Drive Duplicator/Cloner Function [10TB Support] (EC-HD2B)?

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Did you used to hotswap drives? Or did you have to remove them from your computer?

If they used to be inside your computer, it might be worthwhile investing in something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT/

And then spend a weekend looking through those drives. Might not find the wallet, but at least it’s something?

(Sorry if you have already tried something like this. I know unsolicited advice can be very annoying)

Hell yeah! If you can't access the files using the computer, crack it open, take out the hard drive (and RAM for your next machine), and get an external hard drive dock. I got a dual dock from Amazon, so one holds all my VSTs and the other holds backups.

If all you're using it for is a simple NAS for storage and relatively infrequent access, I'd get an Orange Pi PC and a 2-bay USB3 SATA dock (https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT). Install Armbian, install mdadm, NFS and SMB. Now you have a power sipping, silent, no extra heat generating, small form factor RAID1 2-bay NAS/Linux server for $50-60USD not including drives.

Edit: If you want something with gigabit ethernet, then look at an ODROID-XU4. I had 8 SATA 3.5" drives connected to my -XU4 via USB-SATA bridges, and was always able to fully saturate the gigabit link. The -XU4 will run you about $75, the drive dock another $30-40, so about $110-125 for all of it. Install the HardKernel provided Ubuntu image, mdadm, NFS and SMB and you're good to go.

Edit2: Also look at Rock64 with USB3 port and gigabit ethernet. $25USD for the 1GB RAM version+maybe $10-15 for case, power supply and shipping. So you're back at around $30-40USD for the computer, and $30-40 for the 2-bay drive dock.

You could also open it up, remove the hard drive, and try to mount it on another computer using one of these https://smile.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT or something similar. That will avoid any problems if it’s a power supply or motherboard failure. But like a previous poster suggested, I’d start with a bootable usb drive and see if that works. That’s the simplest thing to try first.

The Shield pro 500gb model has a SSHD drive that's prone to failure, this drive isn't recognized by windows and if it goes dead you've basically got a paperweight. People found that if you take a closer you can essential clone this to a SSD of the same size and enjoy much faster boot times and reliability. They have tutorials on how to open the unit and a cloner like this should do the job

Sabrent USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III Dual Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD, SSD with Hard Drive Duplicator/Cloner Function [10TB Support] (EC-HD2B) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT/ref=cm_sw_r_u_apa_fab_QxpFFb3BY34B6

6TB of photos on my Synology. It's been a great backup for photos & documents for years.

Consider adding an external drive that you can initiate a backup of the NAS and then gets disconnected and set aside for a month or so. There are two reasons to consider having "cold storage" that's not connected. You could use a bare drive and a dock like this one.

-If some major power surge comes in and destroys the NAS and the drives that are spinning inside (lightning hits the house?)

-If you get hit with ransomware that encrypts all of the drives connected to your system. You'll be happy you have some external drive with a complete backup of all of your important files sitting disconnected from the system.

Looks like they’ve changed the design a little, but this is basically the one I have: Sabrent USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III Dual Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD, SSD with Hard Drive Duplicator/Cloner Function [10TB Support] (EC-HD2B) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_DTH7Q5EP18R5Z0NH8Z76

It will be fine. Surveillance drives have extra SATA feature set that make it suitable for a surveillance setup, namely to not hang on problematic sectors. They are designed to be used 24/7... or less. The point is they CAN run 24/7 but they don't need to.

Otherwise it'll work like a regular hard drive no issues.

By "docking station" I assume you mean a hard drive dock something like this? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT

I've got one of these, works great in linux, macos, and windows and passes through SMART data flawlessly.

u/Sassquatch0, thank you for that information. I am returning the other docks and have a working EC-HD2B on hand now so I'll just use my spare NAS drive for backups for the time being.

Strangely, Sabrent support says they have no docks that are supported on Synology in my ticket response. I didn't take the time to contradict them and point out that the product on Amazon has the Penguin in the compatibility info.

I have the 2-bay version (EC-HD2B) and it works with my DS720+ using a pair of IronWolf 2TB drives. Can't remember how the drives are formatted, but each drive is independent of the other, and each shows up in DSM as a separate USB external drive.

Currently, I use the USB-Copy app, and schedule a once-per-week event to copy my Plex movies and family photos to the docked drives. It's a very poor type of backup, but at least it's multiple drives for the data.
If I haven't had much new data on the NAS, I'll "USB eject" the docked drives, and then power down the whole unit until there's fresh data to backup.

I bought a cloning machine that also reads drives. Works with 2.5 and 3 inch drives. When we were using spinners at work and they failed, I'd dock it in the cloner and it would read the drive so I can get everything off of it. Was one of these. Sabrent USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III Dual Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD, SSD with Hard Drive Duplicator/Cloner Function [10TB Support] (EC-HD2B) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_X1J8T2ECEC0RSWW644DF?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Yup, physical tool - I use this:

Sabrent USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III Dual Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD, SSD with Hard Drive Duplicator/Cloner Function [10TB Support] (EC-HD2B)

Sabrent USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III Dual Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD, SSD with Hard Drive Duplicator/Cloner Function [10TB Support] (EC-HD2B)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_8EJ1KC02CQX5CMGN4YN8

It reads the data in bay one and clones it to the drive in bay two. The drive in bay two needs to be the same size or bigger than the drive in bay 1.

9 times out of 10 it does a perfect job of cloning.

If you're doing internal just hook it up directly to the motherboard. There aren't any internal hot-swap solutions that I am aware of. If you do want another dock then this is what I have and it works really well.

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT/ref=sr\_1\_4?crid=TIYT1S4VNOID&keywords=hard+drive+dock&qid=1647259817&sprefix=hard+drive+dock%2Caps%2C147&sr=8-4

USB Drive Sata readers

Something like this:

Sabrent USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III Dual Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station - https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT/

I used that every day on my laptop for a year. Worked like a charm.

Pull the drive and use a USB/SATA adapter or enclosure (maybe like this) to move the data onto another hard drive, then browse, backup, copy, and analyze the data.

You could plug up or since its a laptop, use one of these if you have one: https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1BHBIGR9SA7R5&keywords=sata+dock&qid=1641625941&sprefix=sata+do%2Caps%2C261&sr=8-3

I just bought this: Sabrent USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

For my work, as I’m using it to clone our 20 something computers hard drives to ssd’s. But you can use it to have access files from the dock as well

I used to buy externals, then I bought a drive bay to USB. Similar to this https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT?th=1

So I just buy internal drives. Then I keep them in a large sealed case for storage until I need them for retrieval. I have sticky notes of the folders and dates to keep track.

Putting the old SSD won't fry your laptop, but there's a chance Windows could crash because of incompatible drivers. Since you have both a 2.5 and 3.5 inch drive you want to connect, get a sata docking station. I use one with 2 slots like this.

I used a harddrive enclosure to just plug them directly in to the Synology the first time, and most recently I bought a dock for cloning drives that works great for mass transfer too. https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT

I've been using a Sabrent 2 drive bay for a while with no issues. It's USB 3.

Might be nice to have a 2fer for future upgrades or to use cheaper drives.

Might not be the exact product: https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT

I just bought this and it works great Sabrent USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III Dual Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD, SSD with Hard Drive Duplicator/Cloner Function [10TB Support] (EC-HD2B) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_1HCE2T01D615GF54HYWS?psc=1

I take a little different approach. I bought a hot swappable hard drive bay (something like this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_NACJWQANJGTM2FH4RQHP?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1) (sorry giant link) and have bought a couple nice hard drives to use. Having two separate drives would let you separate wedding and real estate, or work and personal.

I generally buy the 5tb ones they are like $100 each. . They are optimal right now price wise. Doesnt look as nice on the desk, but lets you do whatever you want. 5tb is a whole lotta space too. If you have a high mp camera like an a7r iv that should still be 300 shoots with raw files.

Something I would recommend is to look into an external hard drive cage where it acts as the interface for like an external hard drive but you’re able to source your own storage modules so you know you’re getting those from a reputable brand it probably be a bit more expensive but it definitely would give you more control and know that you’re getting what you paid for. Here is a link to what I am talking about if I didn’t make sense. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_D302D239DEJKMH5Y4NNS?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Definitely need more amps if running physical HDDs (and even SSDs). Fwiw, I tried something similar but with meh results. I used a powered purpose-built externally powered dual SATA docking station on my RPi 4b-8GB. ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_7TG15BM0RZGTBCJK9Y4A?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 )

While it technically worked, it wasn’t at all reliable for the HDDs and experienced lots of read/write failures.

I had much better luck with SDDs in this unit, so that’s primarily what I use this for now. I don’t think even the external power was enough for the HDDs, tbh, not for the RPi, anyway. I’m sure it would probably work fine with a traditional intel/amd based unit.

If you are using an old Mac, the cheapest route would be to use an external hard drive docking bay. I use this one with an old Acer laptop running Ubuntu Server: Sabrent USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Clone it with Acronis True Image. You'll need a "Toaster" for best/quickest results.

China is 220V @ 50hz, so you will need to pickup some power adapters.

The power supplies you have used maybe fried and may need to be replaced.

Have you tried error checking the hdd with windows?

file explorer->right click on hdd->properties->tools->error checking

You may want to check the hdd by removing it and plugging into a drive toaster, maybe recoverable, would also allow you to copy it to another drive.

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT/ref=sr_1_4

I’ve recent upgraded all of the desktops in our business to use SSDs from HDDs. I used the product which I linked below from Amazon. Put both drives into the docking station, press the button and it clones everything from drive A to B. The only limitation is the destination drive needs to be the same or bigger in capacity. I’ve had no issues using this.

Sabrent USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III Dual Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD, SSD with Hard Drive Duplicator/Cloner Function [10TB Support] (EC-HD2B) https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0759567JT/

When you say your computer died, are you at least able to remove the hard drive and access it with a Linux Live CD? It's been awhile, and there might even be a way to do it with a USB Flash drive as well. You would need a SATA to USB connector for the hard drive. They have docks and they also have just a cable, which is cheaper. I have an old SATA to USB ICYDOCK which worked well for me, although it's been since discontinued. Maybe try this one, since it's got a lot of reviews already. A second USB Flash drive would be nice, too, as a place to copy recovered files to.

!thanks for the response. Going USB in this scenario keeps things simple, so thanks for confirming that it's a viable option. I wasn't sure if I'm missing any benefits of using the N54L as a NAS, but I guess all I'm doing is making data available to the Lenovo. I'll just make sure to keep an eye on the operating temps of the externals.

Sorry to hear about your experience with the replacement chassis. Good luck with your new project though! I might look at a USB3 'toaster' myself, presuming you mean something like this. I guess I won't need to worry so much about airflow then.

If it's permanent - get a couple of SATA wires like the others said.

If it's temporary (just want the files on them) - get an HD dock or HD enclosure. There are loads on the market, but something like this - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT

Probably 3 months too late, but I got this bad boy years ago and I'm glad I did every week when I run file backups. It basically docks 2 hard drives so you can use them alongside the hardware in your computer. Granted, you need hard drives to use it. Every time I have a laptop go bad (or I know someone that is junking theirs), I take out their hard drive and RAM and hold onto it.

Over a 100 megabit fiber link, uploading 4 TB will take four and a half days, assuming you can max it the connection out continuously.

There are dirt cheap SATA-to-USB docking stations that you can plug any normal hard drive into, hot-swap. Buy one of those and a 6TB drive; the 6TB can act as backup of your main data drives when you're not rebuilding the server.

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT for example, this is just one variant, there are others.

Drives like WD Red are used because they draw little power and are meant for NAS uses.

But there are numerous ways to back up 8TB. For instance, buy an external 8TB USB drive. Or a docking station and actual loose 8TB drives you can plug in. Like https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT

The easiest solution would be to purchase a USB 2.5"/3.5" SATA Hard Drive Dock. It allows you to plug in an internal hard drive which will appear similar to a flash drive and you can just right-click on it and select "Format" (Select NTFS).

Below is the cheaper, not-as-easy solution but will still work:

So when you install Windows 10, make sure the old SSD is the boot drive (and the only hard drive in the computer). The Windows Install Menu will ask you to format the hard drive. Click "Yes". Once formatting finishes and begins copying W10 files, hold the power button to turn off the computer. Remove the old SSD and install the new SSD (keep the old SSD in another SATA port).

Start the computer and install Windows 10 on the NEW SSD.

Once installation is finished, the old SSD will appear as a separate blank drive (kinda' but not really blank).

More than likely that adapter is under powered. It might work fine on a SSD but not on a hard drive. I would recommend returning it and getting something like this.

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=disk+cloning+bay&sr=8-3

You will need to get the model of the laptop to ensure the right RAM. Any sata 2.5 sata SSD should work just fine. If you want to save the data on it, a drive dock would very helpful in cloning his old mechanical drive to the new SSD. It's also just super handy device to have on hand.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_j-FNFbTB45Q6Y

I have no experience with this model, just the first one that came up on a Google search.

Okay.... Here's an idea.....not saying it's a good idea, but an idea...

Pick up a couple of Dual-Drive USB Docks for your old hard drives..

Plug them into one of your computers, boot FreeNAS off a Flash drive... Hopefully it'll pick them up.

At that point, you've got your data.... you can hook the 12TB to the other computer, boot and OS over there, and copy the data over....

Might be able to do it all on a single computer, but I haven't looked into FreeNAS' support for other file systems...

Is the hard drive physically failing or just running excruciatingly slow? You've already put what is probably a good chunk of hours into this, I would say your easiest route would be to buy a dual bay docking station with a cloning feature.

If the drive is physically failing (audible, distinct clicking usually), I would just worry about backing up the data as soon as possible.

Here is an affordable docking station: Sabrent with cloning. The destination drive just has to be the same size or larger for the clone feature to work.

Edit: with the docking bay all you have to do is pull the old drive out pop it in slot one, pop the new terabyte drive and sloy two and press and hold the clone button until it starts. When it's done just put the new drive into the computer and boot up like normal. Nothing else to do.

I'm not an expert, but i'm 95% sure it would be fine. If you want to be absolutely positive that it will be fine, you could back it up to a new hard drive using one of these.

This is a great post- perfect detail and links for each question. Helps us alot to be able to answer in a helpful way.

Like the other answers I would agree that USB file transfer is less desirable than SATA, but with your use case I don't think it's unreasonable to use a USB dock. I have many internal drives lying around and I don't want them plugged into my computer all the time, so I have a usb dock like this one that I can just drop them in when I need to access something. In my opinion I'd prefer internal drives with one dock versus a bunch of external drives with their extra cables and keeping track of power supplies. PLUS you can just upgrade your dock when you need to upgrade connections, like to USB 3.2 Gen 2 or Thunderbolt.

However, if your backups are substantial and USB is too slow, you might consider mounting them in your computer and just plug them in when you need them.

Your other question about internal versus external drive prices is a bit more complicated. Firstly, it seems like the internal drive you linked to is not sold by Amazon, so the price is not really comparable to the external drive. Secondly, it's doubly incomparable because the "Blue" WD drive is more expensive than ones they usually put in external drives. However, many people usually find it cheaper to "shuck" external drives if they're doing cold storage or RAID arrays. Usually if you're looking for an internal drive you need specific performance, like when I buy Toshiba x300 performance drives for my workstation, whereas with the mystery box of an enclosure you can't guarantee that you're going to get the drive you need.

It's up to you how to proceed, if you find a good deal on external drives and want to shuck them to put in an dock, great! You can't really go wrong. But whatever you do, be careful with drives when you're moving them around or unplugging them frequently!

Ah yes, the tried and true Hard Drive Toaster.

Got it! He didn't do it the best way, he should have moved your HDD image over to the SSD.

So if you want a program to work, locate it and open it. If it runs fine, great, you can move the folder wherever you want. If it throws errors, then it needs to be reinstalled because it won't work as a portable installation.

So you re-download Bluestacks, point it at your HDD (something like D:\Bluestacks ) and then if you had any settings files or anything specific like projects, you can go get them from the old location and move them back to where you installed.

In the future, when you swap hardware you can either use a hard drive cloner (like this) or use Macrium Reflect to copy the entire drive image onto another drive.

So you have a bit of work to do because of how it was handled/installed for you, but it's mostly just manually copying files you want to keep, and then later you can completely delete the old folders once you know everything is handled. Or leave them if you have a lot of space, up to you.

Honestly, I wouldn't even spend money on the NAS, just find one of those drive toasters (https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT/ref=sr_1_5?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1535769910&sr=1-5&keywords=hard+drive+docking+station) and stick your drives in it.

If it's just for backups, copy your data unto the drives regularly and just store them when it's not being used.

I'll comment on your post in order:

• Yes, I am just about physically out of outlets. All 4 outlets are occupied by surge protectors, and each surge protector is near capacity. Space limitations due to a small apartment.
• You are correct about my USB 2.0 comment; I meant to say the multimedia devices I'm interested in connecting an external drive to only supports USB 2.0 and are too power intensive to run a drive that contains an internal power supply (such as the My Passport external drives). However no, the Wii U nor the PS3 cannot supply enough power to run a My Passport USB drive, at least out of the box; these drives can only work if a Y-connector is used to draw power from two USB slots. The downside to going this route is the PVR only has a single USB port (so not possible at all), and the PS3 only has a single pair of USB ports (no room to connect other devices, and the drive will not run at all using a USB hub).
• I have found some success in using a multi hard drive bay. All of my devices recognize it fine. I'm OK with the idea of swapping one drive for another as needed, but it would be better if I didn't have to touch anything; just power up the bay, select which device I want to use with what drive, and go. Otherwise as is, there's a slight hassle in pulling out the drive I don't want to use, switching USB cables over to the device I want to use it with, and the bulky power connector using up two outlet spaces on a surge protector.

Here ya go bud: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_WBD9VAQXNXFZGDJEVF1V?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

load BIOS defaults .. reboot .. Your hard drive is listed under main (250gb) .. see if it boots .. if it doesn't, Hopefully it's just something like a corrupt boot partition an the drive as a whole isn't dead/inaccessible if there was data on there that you wanted.

You can try a repair install of windows .. you could pick up an inexpensive SSD and replace the drive and reinstall windows and get a USB SATA docking station like https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Sata+Docking+Station&qid=1625305393&sr=8-3 and put in your old drive to recover whatever data.

The drives will only write so fast. I think what you've been doing, Acronis, is the best way to go. I'm assuming you're connecting each drive either internally or USB? Maybe insure you're using USB 3 or 3.1 since transfer speeds are faster (and good cables) and connect them directly not through hubs.

Other than that I don't see many other ways to increase the speed using the method you've described.

I did get a drive cloner a while back but haven't had a chance to use it. Maybe you're looking for something like this?

> Supports Transfer Speeds up to 5Gbps (USB 3.0),480Mbps (USB 2.0), 12Mbps (USB 1.1)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0759567JT/

Purchase a hard drive dock like this and clone the drive

Consider going with 2 bay docking station. https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT

Otherwise, get StarTech Dual HDD enclosure for the project. https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-External-Dual-Drive-Enclosure/dp/B07116PMPD

"cheap" option we used to do at my office is buy one of these hard drive toasters, load 2 5 or 10TB drives into it. Fill it up with projects as they're finished (2nd drive as a backup). When finished take a screenshot of the root to show whats on the drives & archive them into a case like this.

Not the most elegant but it was pretty efficient price-wise all things considered.

It would be easier to just get an external HDD dock in this scenario.

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT/ref=sr_1_5?crid=2CZHQ28466ITU&keywords=sabrent+drive+dock&qid=1649975815&sprefix=sabrent+drive+dock%2Caps%2C53&sr=8-5

I can't see off hand what kind of connector is on the drive itself once you remove the USB adapter on the end, but there are ways to connect most drives.

I assume it doesn't work when you plug in a USB cable? Because that should be as simple as plugging it in.

If it's a normal SATA drive, there are USB-based hard drive docks you can buy for very little money (well, relatively speaking): https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT/ - that connects to your laptop with USB, you just slot the drive in from above and push it down and if the drive is healthy (and has the SATA connector, and not an ancient IDE connector) that should be that.

Unfortunately, it does look like it has a PATA or IDE port rather than the newer SATA at least at first glance, and in that case you need a much older style USB adapter. They do exist, but they would have less value to you beyond connecting this one drive and praying it was alive. This, maybe https://www.amazon.com/Vantec-SATA-IDE-Adapter-CB-ISA225-U3/dp/B01E7EPKUO/ - which does seem to support SATA as well so you could use it to connect newer drives also.

Could get 2 of these or 4 of these

You need a docking station something like this No idea if someone posted it or not everyone was talking about whats on the hdd (porn or not)

You need an hdd docking station Somthing like this [docking station](www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_navT_a_DQYAK97WBRPTWPYJ89YE) No idea if someone posted this befor me or not cuz everyone is talking about whats on the hdd

Just buy a hard drive dock and grab the files you need that way. Something like this

Get the new drive, get a USB 3.0 drive connector, and use another laptop/desktop with Acronos True Image (or similar) to copy the old onto the new. You will need sufficient storage on the laptop/desktop to store the contents of the original drive.

You could also use a drive duplicator, with its software: https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?dchild=1&keywords=drive+duplicator&qid=1635971399&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEySEtBOU9LOFlKTFY2JmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMTI4NzAwM0xEV1lDRE9TOTA3USZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwMjYwMjg2MlZSSUFaTFgyNjUzTiZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=

You could use something like this.

Get a HD Toaster, plug your drives into it and you can wipe them using this and your new computer.

You can just get a USB hard drive dock. Some of them have multiple ports, something like this.

Sabrent USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

i just went with this one. i dont think its hot swappable like my previous docks were (startech and thermaltake)

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT

something like this will probably work fine for the SATA drives;

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=usb+hard+drive+dock&qid=1628776660&s=electronics&sr=1-3

for IDE drives you will probably need an adapter like this;

https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-UNITEK-Universal-External-Support/dp/B01NAUIA6G/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=usb+hard+drive+dock+ide&qid=1628776690&s=electronics&sr=1-3

actually that last one also says it has SATA on it so that might handle all the drives on its own, assuming you have the "destination" drive attached elsewhere.

Could do one of these external docks. Bulky. But powered and fits x2 3.5s.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_7HGBJXYGTY0PQE6E3HH0

something like this should work

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT

without the need of an outside computer it can clone one disk to another bit-by-bit

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so if you power down the NAS, remove the drive, clone it to the new drive and install the new drive i believe everything should work

usually not.

I would suggest cloning the HDD (Passive cloners cost like 20$ and do it on a button press) and then just swapping the HDD out for the SSD.

https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B0759567JT/ref=pd_sbs_1/144-4906543-4990952?pd_rd_w=2vm8k&pf_rd_p=3676f086-9496-4fd7-8490-77cf7f43f846&pf_rd_r=7AW4HKX1AP2D3VP78PCS&pd_rd_r=554f7e8b-74fb-4fc4-8464-c84b5a135494&pd_rd_wg=FMAO8&pd_rd_i=B0759567JT&psc=1

You can also use the station to use your 1 TB HDD as an external drive at home.

I just saw this. Have you ever considered using JoyToKey or xpadder and mapping windows defaults to the proper layout per system? It would be seamless and since you're not worried about any latency hit (which arguably doesn't even exist with this solution) it would save you a lot of time and headache,. Also are you setting this up on a case by case basis? If so, why not set up one or two alpha drives and simply clone them with a 3.5 hdd cloner:
https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT/

As long as the drive is FAT 32 or EXFAT formatted and the USB-C port can provide enough power for the drive to function you should be good to go. You might need to buy an external drive enclosure with its own power supply to power the drive if the USB-C port can’t provide enough power alone.

Look at these two things for your setup.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJ1M2AM/A/usb-c-to-usb-adapter?afid=p238%7CsXLGWyZEG-dm_mtid_1870765e38482_pcrid_496840630947_pgrid_117014976843_&cid=aos-us-kwgo-pla-btb--slid---product-MJ1M2AM/A

Sabrent USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III Dual Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD, SSD with Hard Drive Duplicator/Cloner Function [10TB Support] (EC-HD2B) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_86R5XYVR6VHV1E8GF885?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Present laptops are the rip the entire bottom off to get access to the RAM and M.2 Slots. There may be a few laptops that also have a 2.5" slot.

I would suggest getting a docking station that way you can just drop in the drives for easy access with SATA to USB bridges such as the following:

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?dchild=1&keywords=SATA+docking+station&qid=1624243972&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEyV0lFU1k1RDZNSVpIJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwODg0NDU2R0g3WjhDVUI4UFoxJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTAyNjAyODYyVlJJQVpMWDI2NTNOJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfYXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==

https://www.amazon.com/Dual-Bay-ORICO-Tool-Free-Enclosure-Duplicator/dp/B08CTZPLH4

Mind the duplicator is only NVME based.

You need a sata enclosure or docking station. This has a USB3.0 output. https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Sata+3+multiple+enclosure&qid=1620915863&sr=8-3

If you have 60 Internals - probably the other guys here are right, just get a few 24 bay used JBOD's that support SATA.

What capacity are your SATA drives ?

Maybe Macrium? The way I usually clone drives are in a clone dock like this one though you will get a blue screen when booting for the first time (this goes away after the second boot and the machine operates normally). I have had success with Acronis True Image when cloning while a drive is still installed ad has worked every time. EaseUS has failed me more often than not.

I think you can according to the AMZ listing

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0759567JT/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I dont think it matters. I used a very old spare 64 GB sata SSD, from back when those where state of the art ;) and I plugged it in a mainspowered sata to usb dock that I had laying around. Its not a pretty solution, looks like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=sata+usb+dock&qid=1611817449&sr=8-3

If I where to buy, I buy something more compact :), but the fact its mains powered is a good thing, as the Pi may have trouble powering it through USB. So something like this perhaps:

https://www.amazon.com/WEme-Converter-Adapter-Drive-included/dp/B00MVRS38G/ref=sr_1_13?dchild=1&keywords=sata+usb+dock&qid=1611817412&sr=8-13

Alternatively, a good sdcard with built in wear leveling may be good enough. Something like (a genuine!) WD purple or Samsung PRO Endurance. Problem is ensuring you get a genuine one.

Probably the easiest thing to do is remove hard drives and pop them onto something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT/ref=sr_1_5?_encoding=UTF8&c=ts&dchild=1&keywords=Computer+Hard+Drive+Enclosures&qid=1610822306&s=pc&sr=1-5&ts_id=160354011

then view the contents from one of your own PCs

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT/ref=sxin_9?

have you ever tried something like this?

This?

If the SSD is bigger or the same size as the original, you can buy one of those hardware hard drive duplicators. https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=hard+drive+clone&qid=1599795173&sr=8-3

Nah you can just dock the SSD just like this

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT

Sabrent USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

This is the model I have and it works great even with drives that fail to open in windows

Like these https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT

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And, got it. I've just read on this very sub that the Rock64 makes for a decent NAS over the Pi. Thanks!

For others reading this, see this 5 minute video first: https://youtu.be/ZwhT-KI16jo

It depends upon how much, and what data is involved: There's the docking bay option, or a single box: E.g.

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT

https://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-HDWR11AXZSTA-Performance-Gaming-Internal/dp/B07N8WTK4T?th=1

https://atechfabrication.com/products/mass_storage_2500.htm

Docks are good if there's not a lot of original content (OC) created. By OC I mean, that which cannot be recreated. E.g. I have 2 hundred music CD's collected over many years. Over time I've ripped them all onto hard drives: Added to that are all the music CD's & video DVD's that I've ripped from my local public library (shhhh). However, that data could be recaptured; it's not lost. I'd only lose the time it took to rip them. The same is true with anything captured on/from the Internet. My huge Amazon e-book library is stored on their cloud servers, but can be downloaded to my hard drive/s. Again, nothing lost if the HDD or SSD died suddenly. But OC is another matter.

Therefore, when ever anyone calculates storage, the content is the motivator of how much to spend. I always keep my OS (and its future updates, programs, apps, etc) on an m.2 SSD; no other content on it, so that at anytime and for any reason, I can simply unplug all storage devices, and install another Linux distro (or reinstall the same one) if any problems whatsoever, show up in the future; mechanical, viruses, ransomware; you name it. I back up the most important data monthly onto USB sticks and keep them in a fireproof waterproof Safe (if not one of those, a bank box will suffice).

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0759567JT/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_vKQuDbYX6JG2F

What about that? It's a dock for SATA drives that connects via usb

I think most of these answers are overly complicated. I’ve cloned numerous drives with one of these

And if you’re using an M.2, you can buy a cheap adapter.

The only caveat with devices like these is that the source drive can’t be larger than the new drive.

Stick them both in. Press a button. Wait a few minutes. That’s it.