Qwiizlab USB C Hub with Dual Drive Enclosure, Docking Station for Mac Studio Mac Mini M2/M1/Intel, Type-C 10Gbps, Card Readers 104MB/s, Fits M.2 NVMe NGFF SSD & 2.5'' SATA SSD (Silver)

I have been using Macs personally since 1984 and was a Windows System Administrator for 20 years. I retired from the Windows Admin position and bought a new Mac Mini M2 for personal use. It is the best Mac I ever owned, but like most computers it did not have enough ports, and I needed an external SSD hard drive solution for Time Machine backups. After lots of research, I chose the Qwiizlab USB C Hub. Visually, it is an almost perfect match for the Mini, and saves lots of desk space tucked under the computer. I did stick some additional little rubber feet under the hub to increase the airflow for the hard drives.First it is very important that you purchase the correct hard drives for the enclosure. For one of the slots you need NVMe storage. I found a Western Digital WD - Black SN850X 2TB drive on sale. This drive is fine for backups, but also fast enough to work from if you need to. When you install this drive, do not try to push it straight in, it needs to be held at an angle when inserting. The enclosure has a little rubber clip that holds the drive in place. The other slot is for a SATA SSD drive, which is slower than the NVMe drive. I use this as an archive drive to store older data that I rarely access, but still need. I got a Crucial MX500 2TB, not the best quality drive, but I have that data backed up elsewhere. Something like a Samsung EVO might be a better solution for critical data. This drive can be inserted straight in. The SATA drive will hang unsupported after it is inserted and turned over, so you may need some padding on top of the SATA drive to support it. The Crucial drive included a bezel with adhesive to support the drive. This hub/enclosure comes with screws and a screwdriver to secure the cover plate.To connect the hub, use the short cable and insert it into a Thunderbolt port on the Mini. The hub also comes with a power cable, that is inserted in the port marked power on the hub. The other end can be inserted in the USB port of a phone charger plug. I am using a 2.4 watt charge plug, and this works fine so far. It is important to connect the hub to its own power source, as the 2 drives plus other devices you connect need more power than the hub can get from its Mac connection alone. If you don't, you may get a disconnect error from the external drives after your Mini goes into sleep mode. So far, the drives are working correctly with no disconnect errors.Once you install the drives, and connect the hub to the Mini and to power, you may get an error message that the Mac cannot read the drives. This is normal! The drives might be formatted with a file system the Mac can't read. Open the Mac Disk Utility, select the drive and click Erase from the top menu. Reformat the drive as APFS, and the Mac will be able to read it and do Time Machine backups. I ran a backup of 500 GB of data to the WD Black NVMe drive that took less than 15 minutes.With everything setup as I have described, this hub and hard drive enclosure works perfectly! Qwiizlab has done a very good job creating a product that looks nice, saves space and serves a both a hub and hard drive enclosure. The setup of this device can be challenging for a novice, and this probably explains most of the negative reviews of the product. There are many things a newbie can do incorrectly that will prevent one or more features from working.That said, I am curious to see how the Qwiizlab performs over the long haul. In my experience, 3rd party hard drive enclosures have a higher failure rate than OEM equipment. The good thing is that as long as you get high quality hard drives, you can recover from the failure of the enclosure hardware by removing the drives and inserting them in a new enclosure without losing any data. I will try to post an update to this review after using the device for a while.

I've now had a few of these, All are worth having if you have a Mac mini or Studio! Giving my last one to my mother so after a few reviews I decided to try this Qwiz model. SO glad I did! Read Writes are at least a 1/3 faster using Blackmagic Disc Speed Test, and VERY noticeable in real world application. Some of the others I have tried are more expensive and not as fast.It's able to install 2 drives not just one!!!!Packaging was rather nice also, a step above the others.small notes making it not 5 star-1- extra cable for power, if you can, replace the power cable with a longer one and run it back to a USB plug/powerstrip or what ever, loosing a USB socket on the Mac is annoying!2 - Come with pads for the SATA but not real instructions. why, so make sure you use them on the drive to keep it in ( I knew this, but can see someone not knowledgeable not knowing)3 - seems 1/2 way decent made, but the drive door was a tad flimsy and didn't line up perfect to the screws. easy for me to fix but will likely annoy others. The Door does snap into place solidly though!All in all, it's a very nice Hub/Drive enclosure! If looking to clean up your desk and add a hub to a Mac mini/Studio, I can highly recommend this one, Though, I haven' had it long so longevity hasn't been tested.

Seeing I have a 2018 Mac mini, this was the only hub I could find in this form that was compatible with an older mini. The hub actually keeps the Mac mini a bit cooler with air able to flow between the 2 devices. I was able to add a SSD without issue to the hub, connect it, and format the drive with ease.The only con is I wish it came with more USB-C, but other than that, this has been an excellent investment.

Unlike the more well known brand, this device is compatible with my 2018 Intel Mac mini. I like that it includes a power supply port, not just dependent on USB bus power. Also, it is available in the darker gray color, not just silver - Although the color match isn’t quite perfect. I’m using it with a 2 Tb NVMe SSD which is working fine.

I got this on July 2nd 2022. After 2 or 3 months I started experiencing disconnections from my Mac. I contacted the seller and told him that I tried other cables and solve the problem, that the cables included in the hub were of poor quality. If I remember correctly, they asked me to order another generic cable and they would refund the cost of it from the price I paid for the product. And it worked, I didn't see disconnections again. But just today I tried to access my SSD inside the hub and it was impossible. I switched the cables and ports and nothing worked. I didn't realize when it stopped working but I think it was months ago. I don't recall to see the hard drive icon in finder in the recent months. Less than two years and this electronic junk stopped working. I do not recommend to buy this product from this brand, it is of very poor quality and junk.

Realmente no pense fuera a funcionar tan bien como me a funcionado, Le puse una M.2 de Samsung y sin problema, la reconoce inmediatamente, casi no se calienta y todos los puertos funcionan muy bien, la única desventaja que le veo es que se resbala muy fácilmente, así que para evitar eso yo le puse en 4 puntos una cinta doble cara para pegarla a mi MacMini m2 y le pegue la estampa que viene de Apple en la MacMini para que parezca más un accesorio original con la manzanita jajaja

J'ai acheté cette base pour 129€, ce qui pique déjà un peu par rapport au prix US de 99$ sur le site fabricant.Installé avec un disque 1TB SATA et un disque 1TB NVMECela fait le boulot, débits corrects, et je n'ai pas de déconnexion de disque (alimentation externe ou câble USB-A>USB-C fourni, mais qui monopolise un précieux port USB).Par contre je retire 2 étoiles, car la base émet un sifflement/grésillement électrique très aiguë continu et très désagréable. Mon Mac mini n'ayant de place que directement face à moi sous mon écran, je ne peux éloigner l'appareil pour moins l'entendre... Cela me gâche complètement l'expérience !

Werkt goed,nadeel, is niet te daisy chainen.kwaliteit is geen Apple,meer lookalike.

Delhivery is good

とても便利で今のところ誤動作も無いし質感も良い。