--- product_id: 51623339 title: "SABRENT USB 3.0 Dual Bay Hard Drive Docking Station & Cloner (EC-HD2B)" brand: "sabrent" price: "€ 109.01" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 category: "Sabrent" url: https://www.desertcart.sk/products/51623339-sabrent-usb-3-0-dual-bay-hard-drive-docking-station store_origin: SK region: Slovakia --- # USB 3.0 transfer up to 5Gbps Supports 2.5" & 3.5" SATA HDD/SSD Offline cloning at 60Mbps SABRENT USB 3.0 Dual Bay Hard Drive Docking Station & Cloner (EC-HD2B) **Brand:** sabrent **Price:** € 109.01 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 💽 Clone, dock, and conquer your data universe with SABRENT’s powerhouse dual bay station! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** SABRENT USB 3.0 Dual Bay Hard Drive Docking Station & Cloner (EC-HD2B) by sabrent - **How much does it cost?** € 109.01 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sk](https://www.desertcart.sk/products/51623339-sabrent-usb-3-0-dual-bay-hard-drive-docking-station) ## Best For - sabrent enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted sabrent brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Dual-Bay Versatility:** Seamlessly dock and clone both 2.5" and 3.5" SATA drives for ultimate flexibility. - • **Blazing Fast Transfers:** Experience USB 3.0 speeds up to 5Gbps—because your data deserves no delays. - • **Plug & Play Simplicity:** No drivers, no hassle—just connect and start saving memories or managing files instantly. - • **Massive Storage Support:** Handles drives up to 10TB each, empowering your data hoarding and archival needs. - • **Effortless Offline Cloning:** Duplicate drives without a PC at a swift 60Mbps, perfect for secure backups on the go. ## Overview The SABRENT USB 3.0 Dual Bay Hard Drive Docking Station & Cloner (EC-HD2B) is a professional-grade device designed for seamless access, transfer, and offline cloning of 2.5" and 3.5" SATA HDDs and SSDs. Supporting up to 10TB drives per bay and transfer speeds up to 5Gbps via USB 3.0, it offers plug-and-play convenience without driver installation. Ideal for data recovery, backups, and drive duplication, it’s a must-have tool for tech-savvy professionals and digital archivists alike. ## Description desertcart.com: SABRENT USB 3.0 Dual Bay Hard Drive Docking Station & Cloner (EC-HD2B) | 2.5"/3.5" HDD/SSD; offline duplicator/cloner; 20TB+ support; UASP; SATA I/II/III; hard drive reader; hard drive dock : Electronics Review: Recovered old family photos from old hard drives my father had! - I picked up this docking station after helping my father set up his new all-in-one PC and I found a bunch of older computers and hard drives laying around his house. I brought all of the drives home with me so that I can go through all of them and make sure I save all of the pictures he’s taken over the years! This docking station was perfect since it can handle both 3.5” and 2.5” drives. It was pretty much plug and play when I first connected it to my computer. I have no issues with the processing speed, knowing some of the older drives aren’t going to be as powerful as newer SSD drives. It’s been very reliable and I haven’t had any issues accessing all of the drives I’ve attached so far. This became really handy when my Father-inLaw’s PC recently died (and he didn’t have a backup of his files). I pulled his Hard Drive out of his old tower and plugged it into the docking station, then downloaded all of his files on a 32gb thumb drive (older generation and not a lot of files!!) and took it back down to his house on our next visit. He was really happy to get all of his files back and I got to keep his 2 TB drive as a spare so I can use as my external backup drive to do monthly backups (I’m also using the Apple Devices app to download back up files from all of our devices to this drive since it has plenty of disk space). For my needs this has been the perfect solution for going through older drives to save information we didn’t want to loose - all of the pictures I’ve saved off of my dad’s old drives was well work the price of the docking station since there were hundreds of pictures from both sets of my grandparents that my father had scanned on these drives. I’m now exporting all of these pictures to thumb drives so that my sisters and cousins are getting copies of them. Some pictures my cousins have never seen and they whole family is so happy they have been saved. Review: A good way to temporarily connect SATA drives to your computer - I regularly have a need to temporarily connect SATA HDDs or SSDs to my computer, either to pull off some data, to wipe them clean or to run a "burn-in" test on a new HDD. In the past I used a powered SATA to USB adapter and put the bare drive onto my table (or rather onto a mat on my table to minimize vibrations). This unit is the more sophisticated version of such an adapter and makes my desk look less like a lab and more like an office. The unit provides two SATA connectors to connect two drives in parallel and even the option to perform an offline copy from one drive to another (which I did not test). It comes with a manual printed in color on high-quality paper, however the only important info I took from there is that the drive(s) should be inserted BEFORE turning on the unit. That means that the unit apparently does not have hot-plugging/hot-swapping ability (or at least it isn't officially supported). The unit has a power switch and a clear plastic cover to protect the device from dust, while not in use. Unfortunately though that plastic cover has no cut-outs for the connected power and usb cable, so it looks a little slapdash on my desk. The unit also has some padded feet, however these are very thin and do no prevent vibrations from HDDs to transmit to your desk. As a consequence I will be buying some thicker adhesive rubber feet to mitigate this. After using the unit for a few days I can say that so far it has been very reliable. I used it to do read and write tests on two HDDs (4TB and 14TB) and it has performed well. I have connected the unit to a USB 3.1 gen 1 (5Gb/s) port on my computer, which is the maximum connection speed that this unit can operate in (so no point plugging it into a 10Gb/s port). However for HDDs the performance will be dictated by speed that the HDD can provide anyway. During a linear read and write test, the speed was as high as 260 MB/s for some parts of my 14TB HDD (a WD Red Pro), but - as expected - lower in other parts of the disk). For an old 4TB disk the read and write speed was 50MB/S, so this unit can definitely keep up with current HDDs. However in principle the 5Gb/s transfer speed on the USB 3.0 interface of the unit is 18% lower than what SATA III allows for (6Gb/s), though these are theoretical speeds. To test the limits of the transfer rate, I also tested this with a 2TB Crucial MX500 2.5" SSD, the highest transfer speed on a sequential read test was about 405 MB/s. CrystalDiskMark 8 showed max. sequential read speeds of 460 MB/s for reading 5 1GiB Blocks. So the interface is plenty fast with one drive installed, at least for my needs. However when running two WD Red Pro 20TB HDDs in parallel and running a sequential write on both at the same time, the data transfer speed dropped to 160 MB/s at the beginning of the disk, then slowly increased to ca. 190 MB/s about two thirds through and then dropped toward 125 MB/s at the end of the disk. So there is definitely some overhead, when using two drives at the same time. All in all I am very pleased with this unit so far. I would deduct half a star for the clunky cover and the thin feet, but at 4.5 stars a round-up to 5 stars seems more fair than a round-down to 4 stars. I have some more HDD burn-in testing to do in the coming days, and I will update this review, if my view on this unit materially changes. ## Features - Supports Standard Desktop 2.5"/3.5" SATA Hard Drives or SSD. - Supports hard drives up to 10TB. - Plug and play, no drivers needed. - Supports Offline Cloning up to 60Mbps. - Supports Transfer Speeds up to 5Gbps (USB 3.0),480Mbps (USB 2.0), 12Mbps (USB 1.1) ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B0759567JT | | Best Sellers Rank | #2 in Hard Drive Docking Stations | | Brand | SABRENT | | Built-In Media | Docking station, Power Supply, USB 3.0 cable, User Manual | | Color | Black | | Compatible Devices | Most USB Compatible Devices | | Connectivity Technology | USB | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 17,053 Reviews | | Data Transfer Rate | 5 gigabits_per_second | | Global Trade Identification Number | 00819921013699 | | Hard Disk Form Factor | 2.5 inches | | Hardware Interface | USB 3.0 | | Hardware Platform | Linux | | Item Dimensions L x W x H | 6.26"L x 3.94"W x 2.72"H | | Item Highlight | 2.5"/3.5" HDD/SSD; offline duplicator/cloner; 20TB+ support; UASP; SATA I/II/III; hard drive reader; hard drive dock | | Item Type Name | hardware-docking-stations | | Item Weight | 1.2 pounds | | Manufacturer | SABRENT | | Memory Storage Capacity | 20 TB | | Mfr Part Number | EC-HD2B | | Model Number | EC-HD2B | | Number of Items | 1 | | Number of Packs | 1 | | Product Dimensions | 6.26"L x 3.94"W x 2.72"H | | Supported Devices Quantity | 2 | | UPC | 819921013699 | | Unit Count | 1 Count | | Warranty Description | 1-year warranty without registration Register your product to extend your warranty coverage to 2 years | ## Product Details - **Brand:** SABRENT - **Color:** Black - **Hardware Interface:** USB 3.0 - **Hardware Platform:** Linux - **Product Dimensions:** 6.26"L x 3.94"W x 2.72"H ## Images ![SABRENT USB 3.0 Dual Bay Hard Drive Docking Station & Cloner (EC-HD2B) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/7150qSDkkzL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Size** options. ## Questions & Answers **Q: Can i access two hard drives at once with this device or does it switch from one to the other?** A: Yes, you'll be able to access both drives at the same time. You can also use Offline Cloning from 1 drive to another. **Q: Supports hard drives up to 10TB really?, I can't find any specification on the web site** A: Our EC-HD2B will work well with 20TB drives. It has recently been tested and validated to work with native 4K sector drives including ones that are up to 20TB in capacity per bay **Q: would this station allow one drive to handle time machine backups and the other drive separately handle playback of audio files?** A: Yes. Both drives appear as two separate volumes accessible independently. **Q: Can this be used to format a drive or is it just a cloning device?** A: Think of this device as an external hard drive. The difference is you get to plug in internal drives to it and work with them however you desire. If you buy a new, unformatted, unpartitioned HDD (which is standard), you will go to DiskManagement in Windows and initialize the drive for use. I like this device especially for backing up and cloning drives. Acronis True Image 2021 is my current tool of choice for these options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Recovered old family photos from old hard drives my father had! *by G***T on May 25, 2026* I picked up this docking station after helping my father set up his new all-in-one PC and I found a bunch of older computers and hard drives laying around his house. I brought all of the drives home with me so that I can go through all of them and make sure I save all of the pictures he’s taken over the years! This docking station was perfect since it can handle both 3.5” and 2.5” drives. It was pretty much plug and play when I first connected it to my computer. I have no issues with the processing speed, knowing some of the older drives aren’t going to be as powerful as newer SSD drives. It’s been very reliable and I haven’t had any issues accessing all of the drives I’ve attached so far. This became really handy when my Father-inLaw’s PC recently died (and he didn’t have a backup of his files). I pulled his Hard Drive out of his old tower and plugged it into the docking station, then downloaded all of his files on a 32gb thumb drive (older generation and not a lot of files!!) and took it back down to his house on our next visit. He was really happy to get all of his files back and I got to keep his 2 TB drive as a spare so I can use as my external backup drive to do monthly backups (I’m also using the Apple Devices app to download back up files from all of our devices to this drive since it has plenty of disk space). For my needs this has been the perfect solution for going through older drives to save information we didn’t want to loose - all of the pictures I’ve saved off of my dad’s old drives was well work the price of the docking station since there were hundreds of pictures from both sets of my grandparents that my father had scanned on these drives. I’m now exporting all of these pictures to thumb drives so that my sisters and cousins are getting copies of them. Some pictures my cousins have never seen and they whole family is so happy they have been saved. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A good way to temporarily connect SATA drives to your computer *by T***N on January 8, 2025* I regularly have a need to temporarily connect SATA HDDs or SSDs to my computer, either to pull off some data, to wipe them clean or to run a "burn-in" test on a new HDD. In the past I used a powered SATA to USB adapter and put the bare drive onto my table (or rather onto a mat on my table to minimize vibrations). This unit is the more sophisticated version of such an adapter and makes my desk look less like a lab and more like an office. The unit provides two SATA connectors to connect two drives in parallel and even the option to perform an offline copy from one drive to another (which I did not test). It comes with a manual printed in color on high-quality paper, however the only important info I took from there is that the drive(s) should be inserted BEFORE turning on the unit. That means that the unit apparently does not have hot-plugging/hot-swapping ability (or at least it isn't officially supported). The unit has a power switch and a clear plastic cover to protect the device from dust, while not in use. Unfortunately though that plastic cover has no cut-outs for the connected power and usb cable, so it looks a little slapdash on my desk. The unit also has some padded feet, however these are very thin and do no prevent vibrations from HDDs to transmit to your desk. As a consequence I will be buying some thicker adhesive rubber feet to mitigate this. After using the unit for a few days I can say that so far it has been very reliable. I used it to do read and write tests on two HDDs (4TB and 14TB) and it has performed well. I have connected the unit to a USB 3.1 gen 1 (5Gb/s) port on my computer, which is the maximum connection speed that this unit can operate in (so no point plugging it into a 10Gb/s port). However for HDDs the performance will be dictated by speed that the HDD can provide anyway. During a linear read and write test, the speed was as high as 260 MB/s for some parts of my 14TB HDD (a WD Red Pro), but - as expected - lower in other parts of the disk). For an old 4TB disk the read and write speed was 50MB/S, so this unit can definitely keep up with current HDDs. However in principle the 5Gb/s transfer speed on the USB 3.0 interface of the unit is 18% lower than what SATA III allows for (6Gb/s), though these are theoretical speeds. To test the limits of the transfer rate, I also tested this with a 2TB Crucial MX500 2.5" SSD, the highest transfer speed on a sequential read test was about 405 MB/s. CrystalDiskMark 8 showed max. sequential read speeds of 460 MB/s for reading 5 1GiB Blocks. So the interface is plenty fast with one drive installed, at least for my needs. However when running two WD Red Pro 20TB HDDs in parallel and running a sequential write on both at the same time, the data transfer speed dropped to 160 MB/s at the beginning of the disk, then slowly increased to ca. 190 MB/s about two thirds through and then dropped toward 125 MB/s at the end of the disk. So there is definitely some overhead, when using two drives at the same time. All in all I am very pleased with this unit so far. I would deduct half a star for the clunky cover and the thin feet, but at 4.5 stars a round-up to 5 stars seems more fair than a round-down to 4 stars. I have some more HDD burn-in testing to do in the coming days, and I will update this review, if my view on this unit materially changes. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Recommended. Pretty impressive little tool. *by T***B on March 1, 2026* VERY Impressed..... This cloned my 1T Linux Mint fully encrypted HDD to a 2T fully encrypted Linux Mint SSD drive offline :D It showed visual status of cloning progress too. It's important that you don't disconnect in the middle of cloning because that will very likely cause a mess! No matter what OS you are cloning, I would recommend this SABRENT USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III Dual Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5" disks (I didn't try it on 3.5" but it looks like it would fit). For me, the functionality was spot on. It's plastic, so lightweight, but did it's job. It's a device that is meant to sit on a flat surface and not something that moves around so sturdiness was not a concern. The disks plugged in correctly, and connected well. Background: I wasted SO much time trying to do this clone with cloning software! By doing this offline with this little machine I didn't have to deal with all the conflicts & issues or dealing with cloning software that made a mess of everything. Windows OS wants to control everything, so it's better to take any Windows OS drive out, clone the Linux drive, install the newly cloned Linux drive and then add back the Windows OS if you want them to live in the same computer. Be patient - My Linux Mint OS install HDD was less than a month old so the disk was not at all full (I was testing out the OS on my older HDD first to see if I liked the version first). The entire cloning process took a little over 13 hours to clone the 1T HD to a larger 2T SSD, but like I said, everything was encrypted and the SSD was wiped a few times prior to this trying the annoying cloning software that didn't work. I have worked on UNIX/Linux operating systems all my career - however I would never have thought to switch to Linux OS on my laptop if it weren't for Microsoft ending support of Windows10. I can't stand Windows 11 with everything in my face and no privacy. I'm now looking forward to using this on other OS disks (Windows and Linux) and as a docking station. It's definitely worth the price :) ## Frequently Bought Together - SABRENT USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III Dual Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD, SSD with Hard Drive Duplicator/Cloner Function [20+TB Support] (EC-HD2B) - Crucial BX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5-Inch Internal SSD, up to 540MB/s - CT1000BX500SSD1, Solid State Drive - SABRENT SATA to USB Cable - USB 3.0 to 2.5” SATA I/II/III Hard Drive Adapter - External Converter for SSD/HDD Data Transfer (EC-SSHD) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sk/products/51623339-sabrent-usb-3-0-dual-bay-hard-drive-docking-station](https://www.desertcart.sk/products/51623339-sabrent-usb-3-0-dual-bay-hard-drive-docking-station) --- *Product available on Desertcart Slovakia* *Store origin: SK* *Last updated: 2026-10-27*