What is Reddit's opinion of WAVLINK USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III Dual-Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5/3.5 Inch HDD/SSD with UASP (6Gbps), Support Offline Clone Duplicator and Auto Sleep Function [12TB X2 ]-Black?

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Prevention is the best medicine, but for now, immediately disconnect the power, and look up a tutorial on how to remove the hard drive, as long as it's not encrypted, you should be able to just put the hard drive in an external enclosure like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018FTE87S/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_ucIQBb0FFQWEB

And just plug it into another computer, assuming the drive wasn't fried, it should work.

I use a drive cloner. They cost about $35 USD for a 2.5/3.5 SATA unit and make it easy as can be.

WAVLINK USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III Dual-Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5/3.5 Inch HDD/SSD with UASP (6Gbps), Support Offline Clone Duplicator and Auto Sleep Function [12TB X2 ]-Black

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B018FTE87S/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_C4WZYZCSK224FZ8HNSA9?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

I wouldn't trust the power supply that comes with it with more than 2 external hard drives, and I'd be wary of even using 2 with the amount of writing. Way safer to pick up a powered drive dock. Pi4 has 4 usb ports so with that cheap dock you could have 8 drives of any size.

If you clone your drive with something like this or just a simple cloning app on usb stick, and then put the ssd in the same machine, you won't need to reinstall windows 10. Windows 10 is REALLY GOOD at finding out when it's been transferred to a ssd and makes all the necessary os setting changes.

I have a good system but I am guessing my issue with the drives (which happened before) is the wavlink i'm using to connect them to my pc.

this one to be exact https://www.amazon.com/WAVLINK-Dual-Bay-Docking-Station-Functions/dp/B018FTE87S/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=wavlink+hdd&qid=1566270618&s=electronics&smid=A1ZAFAL1WND4H&sr=1-3

No no no, youre not going to reformat or lose anything.

Dont boot from it. Dont think that you have to boot from that drive into Windows XP to get any of the data off of it.

Couple ways 1 - Boot from Knoppix. Knoppix is a linux OS that runs entirely from USB, when Knoppix boots you will be able to access all files on all hard drives.

2 - Another way is just tell the BIOS to boot off of the new drive (what you call E, but when you boot from it, it will be C) and when Windows loads it will see the old drive , you will be able to browse the file system and get whatever you need.

A third option, would be to purchase a USB Toaster. They arent crazy expensive, and they are handy as hell to have around.

https://www.amazon.ca/Wavlink-Dual-Bay-Duplicator-Function-Support/dp/B018FTE87S/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1529919301&sr=8-4&keywords=hard+drive+dock

Yes, hardware, can also be connected to a computer and used as a drive dock to swap drives in and out easily.

like this: https://www.amazon.com/WAVLINK-Dual-Bay-Docking-Station-Functions/dp/B018FTE87S/

The first project I wanted to cover was NAS. I currently have two 3TB HDDs and wanted a concise way of linking them to the Pi. I've been looking into the cheap drive docks on amazon, but was unsure whether those would have software hangups when trying to connect those to a Pi. Anybody have experience with using these?

(reference product : https://www.amazon.com/WAVLINK-Dual-Bay-Docking-Station-Functions/dp/B018FTE87S/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=hdd+2+bay&qid=1562676373&s=gateway&sr=8-4)

i have this and i’ve never had it shut down

You can always get one of this. One button cloning.

https://www.amazon.com/WAVLINK-Dual-Bay-Docking-Station-Functions/dp/B018FTE87S/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2N90BBPIUN8R4&keywords=wavlink%2Busb%2B3.0%2Bclone&qid=1654041123&sprefix=wavlink%2Busb%2B3.0%2Bclone%2Caps%2C132&sr=8-3&th=1

I've had luck with these, but can take a while.

https://www.amazon.com/WAVLINK-Dual-Bay-Docking-Station-Functions/dp/B018FTE87S

These work well for us

https://www.amazon.com/WAVLINK-Dual-Bay-Docking-Station-Functions/dp/B018FTE87S/ref=sr\_1\_6?dchild=1&keywords=disk+clone+dock&qid=1632171064&sr=8-6

You can clone your main HDD with Windows on it to an SSD using some hard drive docks. Here's one my dad just recently used for this exact purpose.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018FTE87S?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

You're right about RAM having to be, more or less, an exact match on generation, speed, and timings... Sometimes slightly different speed and timings can be ok but definitely not different generations (that's like DDR, DDR2, DDR3, and DDR4). So an SSD is a solid state drive, which serves the same purpose as a traditional hard drive but is much faster due to how it physically stores bytes. You don't need anything too specialized though... The are multiple form factors for SSDs and the only one I think has a chance to work on your laptop is a 2.5" form factor - basically about the shape of a deck of cards but only .5" high or so. The easiest way to check if you can do this is to take the panel off your laptop and just visually inspect the hard drive - I believe you'll have a laptop hard drive which is also 2.5" form factor (traditional desktop hard drives are 3.5"), and if that's the case you should be able to just take it out and pop a new SSD in its place. The labor will come from backing up and restoring your data from the old hard drive to the SSD... There's a few ways you can do this but I'm finding the easiest, especially for non techy folks is to simply clone your existing hard drive to a new SSD. You can do this with a tool like what I linked below - my dad just did this recently so I've got second hand knowledge that it's fast and easy. The main caveat is that you need the new drive to be at least as big as the old one, which is only a bummer if your existing drive is way bigger than you actually need... If you don't want to buy a larger than necessary SSD then you can use Windows utilities to backup your data to an external hard drive or something, do a fresh install of Windows 10 on the SSD, then use the same Windows utilities to restore the data - that is also pretty easy if you're all in the Windows eco system. That all make sense?

Handy dandy usb/sata dock with offline cloning support.. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018FTE87S/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_9-KcGbCPYMJ25?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

A note on security - if you are interested in staying in Windows, which is perfectly fine, you really should be on Windows 10 as I don't think 7 is getting security patches anymore.

External monitor would be the way to go. Beyond that, you could pull the HD and plug it into another computer. They make adapters which are cheap on amazon that allow you to plug drives into other computers via USB.

Things like this: https://www.amazon.com/WAVLINK-Dual-Bay-Docking-Station-Functions/dp/B018FTE87S

Or this: https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-UNITEK-universal-Optical-Include/dp/B06WWLCYC3

But make sure it is compatible with your drive before buying.

That's what I thought. With futher research I noticed a seller on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/WAVLINK-Dual-Bay-Docking-Station-Functions saying it's a power supply issue. These dual docks seem to all have 36 watt (3a @ 12v) power bricks and he says for larger drives than 8-10tb you need 4 to 5 amps (48 to 60 watts). Seems odd because the max power requirement for 16tb drives is roughly 10 watts each. Either they don't really supply 3a or the whole device is very inefficient or this seller doesn't know what he is talking about. Just wondering if anyone knew for sure before ordering one.

What kind of computer is it? The hard drive might be completely fine. So try removing the hard drive and using a external drive bay to connect it to another computer. That way you can see if it's a hard drive issue or another issue. If the hard drive is ok you can grab a copy of that zip file.

There are probably cheaper bays but this was from a quick search.

https://www.amazon.ca/Wavlink-Dual-Bay-Duplicator-Function-Support/dp/B018FTE87S/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=hard+drive+bay&qid=1575396519&sr=8-3

Also you can run this free recovery program on the drive if it ends up being the issue and hopefully you can get that zip file.

https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva

If it's raw drives, one of these will work https://www.amazon.com/WAVLINK-Dual-Bay-Docking-Station-Functions/dp/B018FTE87S?ref_=bl_dp_s_mw_13685209011

I bought a dual bay hard drive docking station that can do offline cloning, thinking this may be a quick way to clone bootable hard drives for my macbook pro. But now I'm wondering if this is going to work or not. I wonder if they would even able to clone my external hfs formatted external drives.
Any insight will be helpful.
Thank you. Here's the dual docking station I bought: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B018FTE87S/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Ah, I didn't look at Amazon. Thanks for the heads-up! 3.0 here and 3.1 here

So I brought this 2.5 years ago https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018FTE87S

and quit using it in half a year in because my drives (that were installed in it) would fail and I would lose data on them, this happened more than once and said drives have been inside my pc again and didn't fail once (in 2 years of semi-moderate use) so i'm thinking that device is definitely the problem

Now I am thinking of moving my HDD's from internal to external again but I want a difference solution, any ideas? I wish to have something connected to my network that I can access anytime and I dont want something pricey <100$ my router has a usb port so anything that works on that I guess?

Or do you guys have any other suggestions (I just want dont HDDs in my system and I need the storage)