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Dock recommendation: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33045573142.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33045573142.html Make sure you buy the USB3 variant. Ther
by M95D 3y ago
Dock recommendation: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33045573142.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33045573142.html
Make sure you buy the USB3 variant. There are lots of USB2 that look exactly the same. Some sellers may scam you and send the wrong one.
It is power hungry even when not in use, HDD slots are not hot-swap (you need to turn it off) and card reader is crap, but it is very convenient to swap HDDs quickly and it can read 1 sata and 1 pata at the same time.
There's an alternative from "Orico" that I can't find atm, which supports UAS, but no PATA.
There are lots of usb to sata + pata 40pin + pata 44pin adapter cables. I can't say how good those are, but desktop drives would need 12V power which USB doesn't provide and I would hate to have another power adapter and cable on my desk.