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1. HOW TO USE ALL IN ONE HDD DOCKING STATION MAC INSTALL
2. HOW TO USE ALL IN ONE HDD DOCKING STATION MAC FULL

Why only 72MBps? According to Scott Dunlop, a technical support specialist with StarTech, a number of variables can affect the performance of the hardware and prevent the duplicator from maxing out the full 3Gbps of SATA bandwidth. The duplicator allows at a data transfer rate of up to 72MBps when used for a hard drive-to-hard drive clone. It has two SATA 2.0 (3Gbps) connectors on either side. This handy little device fits in the palm of your hand, measuring just 3 inches square and about a half-inch high. I tested StarTech's Standalone Portable Hard Drive Duplicator which the company launched in August. An integrated LCD displays duplication progress and the duplicator options menu. The docking station also offers a Secure Erase feature that simplifies erasing or wiping drive contents for further cloning use or disposal of a hard drive. hard disk drives (HDDs) or solid-state drives (SSDs), can be connected through USB 3.0 or eSATA, which offer 5Gbps or 3Gbps data transfer rates, respectively. The four-bay Duplicator, which supports 2.5-in. The USB 3.0/eSATA to SATA Standalone 1:3 Hard Drive Duplicator Dock

The duplicator dock can also be used as an external 4-bay hard drive dock, connected through the USB 3.0 or eSATA cables, providing an easy way to add and remove bare external hard drives from a computer system. It purports to vastly reduce the time needed to get new machines up and running, and I can certainly understand the logic behind that. Last month, however, StarTech launched its first SATA Hard Drive Docking Station to support up to four drives simultaneously, one replicating to as many as three others. The basic Duplicator is an all-in-one docking station - you plug either your computer or an internal drive into one end and a destination drive in the other, hit a single button, and it does the rest.

HOW TO USE ALL IN ONE HDD DOCKING STATION MAC INSTALL

Even the master boot record remains the same, so there's no system preparation required and the cloned drive works just like the original when you install it. It works with Windows, Apple or Linux-based systems. Because it's a hardware-based clone, the OS doesn't matter.

The two real advantages are that you can use it without any computer resources tied to it, and it performs an exact, sector-by-sector duplicate of your drive.