SABRENT Hard Drive Docking Station, 4 Bay SATA Enclosure, 2.5" SSD Dock | Turbo cooling fan runs strong to keep your drives alive, built for performance, not silence - DS-4SSD

This is excellent and so easy to set up. I am using it on my MacBook Pro and turn the unit on as and when i need the 4 drives.

Nice and well made product. Only the fan when switched on is very loud but that's not a big issue

Updated - after leaving the review below, I have now upgraded to a new Mac. Happy to say there are no connection issues whatsoever anymore so my previous issues were down to my old Mac, not these enclosures which are very stable and reliable. They have also just released a new version which adds a 5th drive bay and a decent set of RAID options. The new version is approx twice the price but still represents excellent value for money. Aside from my connection issues which I now know were the fault of my old Mac, I stand by the rest of the review below… I’ve been using these for many years, in fact, I run four of them, fully loaded with SSDs (I’m a composer so am using lots of huge sample libraries). There is very little else in the market which approaches the convenience of these at a comparable price point. When they work, they work fine and you can easily just forget about them. However, I have a lot of trouble getting all four units to connect and mount reliably. In fact, I now have to power them on in a certain order, after my Mac has booted, in order for them all to connect properly. Otherwise, one of them will take ages to show up on the desktop, and when it eventually does, the drives all appear empty! And operate very slowly. This is quite frightening! But reboot them and everything shows up just fine. My other criticism is the fan. It’s incredibly noisy yet moves so little air as to be virtually pointless. The result is that with 4 SSDs in such close proximity in a tight closed space, things get pretty warm. That said, I’m still using the same SSD drives which I installed ten years ago and they’re all still in great shape. In summary, these are a good value and neat solution if like me, you need access to multiple SSDs and can’t afford the more expensive, larger solutions. The packaging they come in is ridiculously over the top and quite unnecessary. I wish they would update this product with an improved model to address these issues. I don’t know if anything better at this price point. So I would recommend them, with some caution.

I thought this could make a fun low-speed, low power NAS hanging either from a Lenovo Tiny PC or a RasPi. Hopes were not at all high with this - it was just a bit of fun after all, and yet Sabrent have once again managed to fall well short of my already-low expectations. For starters, the device is pulling the same stunts as their little stand-alone one-drive USB-to-SATA adaptors and rewriting the device IDs to a generic Sabrent one (see second photo). That could be worked around, but under either Windows or Debian, drive slot 4 just would not behave. Windows would report drives of wildly different sizes and then just bin the disk in slot 4 after a random amount of time, and Linux had trouble partitioning the drive in bay 4. Eventually worked, but kept being kicked from either MD- or ZFS-based arrays. Formatting as a single EXT4 disk also didn't work for any period of time. (Using the same drives hanging from four USB-SATA adaptors from another manufacturer works just fine, however!) Shuffling the disks like a pack of cards resulted in fault-staying-with-slot - ANY drive in slot 4 just misbehaved right from the get-go. Tried WD Reds, Hitachi H2T10003272S, WD blue and some Samsung 860 Evo SSDs - none worked correctly. The final nail in the coffin is the fan. It makes a prestigious amount of noise whilst moving almost no air. You can turn it off, but then your drives are in an essentially unventilated, double-skinned plastic case and cook themselves. This is an utterly terrible product. Even if all the slots worked and it didn't mash drive IDs, it's expensive for something that will noisily cook your drives, but it doesn't even manage to do that. I think most of the cost goes into the rediculously overkill packaging. Utter rubbish. Avoid.

It’s so easy to use. I literally installed 1 drive. It showed up. I installed second drive it showed up as a different drive. 3 and 4 the same. Works with the Mac and tested it on friend’s windows machine. IT DID’NT LET US DOWN. Transferred easily with Apple Music and Apple TV. Installed new movies overnight. (68 movies and internet speed dependent) So shows all 4 drives individually across the network ( set up but by the connection to the Mac) Accessed easily across the network, no glitches so far. I like it because it’s 1 unit, 1 connection, no trailing wires. No confusion, the fan can be switched on/ off manually. The only issue with this unit is it will hot swap it’s self with no problems . But Mac ‘s don’t like this. And throws a fit. It’s best to eject the drive on the Mac Then swap it. Mac will detect the new drive. Windows machine didn’t have this problem. But to be honest I’ve had this problem with Mac’s and other drives. If your a Mac user you’ll already know this. I’d recommend this unit and it’s brilliant for media content.

I've got 4 SSD drives in, it works perfectly first time, the neat magnetic coupling on the fan unit makes it easily removeable, and all the cables included meqant it only took 5 minutes to have it running perfectly on my Windows 10 PC. GREAT price, GREAT product!

Want to give this more stars overall, but loaded up with some SSDs, switched on and connected to the computer. Then I turned the fan on... and quickly off again. Going to need to find somewhere other than my desk to run this thing - even at full fan speeds my computer is quieter than this box of disks. The description on the box mentions that disks are hot swappable - if I unplug one drive the whole device is unloaded which suggests otherwise. Not sure if it is related yet but have one disk that repeatedly disappears from my desktop - not something that happened in my previous solution.

This Dock runs quiet. Smoothly. No noise unless you turn on the fan, and that should only be turned on when you are doing heavy work. Small and convenient. Does what is says. No need for any software installation and just works out the box. Handy for consolidating your ssd storage. Love it. One improvement would be to add a feature where it takes all the storage and makes one mounted drive for storage and then intelligently stores across multiple drives, much like stripping and Raid. However as a basic use device it’s brilliant.

I am using 2 of these since about 2 to 3 month and they just work fine.

Seller: Sold as used at half price. Original packaging, complete and spotless. Great bargain. Product: The 4-bay dock is used with four 8 tb Samsung QVO ssd:s and connected to USB 3.0. Read speed a satisfying 350 MB/s. No write speed data yet. When idling or reading, drive temps are under 50C with the lid taken off. Continous writing gets them up to 58C. Then the lid comes on and noisy fan activates, reducing temp to 48C. This thing is better than I expected.

Ich habe die SABRENT 4-Bay-Dockingstation für 2,5-Zoll-SATA-HDDs und SSDs mit USB-A (5 Gbit/s) gekauft, um mehrere Festplatten und SSDs komfortabel verwalten und sichern zu können. Nach einigen Wochen Nutzung bin ich insgesamt sehr zufrieden. Die Dockingstation erfüllt ihren Zweck zuverlässig und erleichtert den Umgang mit mehreren Laufwerken erheblich. Die Inbetriebnahme verlief problemlos. Die Dockingstation wurde von meinem Computer sofort erkannt und die eingesetzten Laufwerke standen innerhalb weniger Sekunden zur Verfügung. Eine zusätzliche Treiberinstallation war bei meinem System nicht erforderlich, sodass ich direkt mit der Arbeit beginnen konnte. Besonders praktisch ist die Möglichkeit, bis zu vier 2,5-Zoll-SATA-Festplatten oder SSDs gleichzeitig einzusetzen. Das spart Zeit, wenn regelmäßig Daten kopiert, Backups erstellt oder verschiedene Laufwerke verwaltet werden. Gerade für Nutzer mit mehreren SSDs oder Archivfestplatten ist das eine enorme Erleichterung. Die Übertragungsgeschwindigkeit über USB 3.0 mit bis zu 5 Gbit/s ist für den vorgesehenen Einsatzzweck vollkommen ausreichend. Beim Kopieren größerer Datenmengen arbeitet die Dockingstation zuverlässig und stabil. Natürlich hängt die tatsächlich erreichte Geschwindigkeit auch von den verwendeten Laufwerken und dem angeschlossenen Computer ab, insgesamt konnte ich jedoch keine Auffälligkeiten feststellen. Die Verarbeitung macht einen guten Eindruck. Das Gehäuse wirkt stabil, die Laufwerke lassen sich leicht einsetzen und sitzen sicher in den Einschüben. Auch der Wechsel zwischen verschiedenen SSDs oder Festplatten gelingt schnell und unkompliziert, was die Dockingstation besonders flexibel macht. Während des Betriebs arbeitet das Gerät zuverlässig. Die Laufwerke werden korrekt erkannt und es kam bei mir zu keinen Verbindungsabbrüchen oder Datenfehlern. Für Backups, Datenmigrationen oder das Auslesen älterer Festplatten ist die Dockingstation daher sehr gut geeignet. Einen kleinen Punkt Abzug gibt es lediglich dafür, dass die Dockingstation bei voller Bestückung etwas mehr Platz auf dem Schreibtisch benötigt und je nach eingesetzten Festplatten Betriebsgeräusche hörbar sein können. Das ist jedoch konstruktionsbedingt und im normalen Einsatz kaum störend. Insgesamt bietet die SABRENT 4-Bay-Dockingstation eine gelungene Kombination aus einfacher Handhabung, zuverlässiger Funktion und guter Verarbeitung. Wer regelmäßig mit mehreren 2,5-Zoll-SATA-Festplatten oder SSDs arbeitet und eine komfortable Lösung für Backups oder Datenübertragungen sucht, erhält hier ein solides Produkt mit einem sehr guten Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis. Ich bin mit dem Kauf zufrieden und kann die Dockingstation guten Gewissens weiterempfehlen.

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It works as intended, operation was smooth and just plug and play. From previous reviews I had concern that the fan may be very noisy but it is not and also easily can be remo