USB 2.0 & eSATA Docking & Cloning Station for 2.5" & 3.5" SATA Hard Drives

Part No: 42797
  • £34.99
  • RRP £49.98
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Product Summary

  • Dual bay hard drive docking station with stand-alone cloning feature (no computer required)
  • Full bitwise cloning including MBR and EISA partitions
  • Dual Bay design accepts either 2.5" or 3.5" SATA disk drives (2TB support)
  • High speed USB 2.0 and eSATA interfaces
  • Power supply and connection cables included
  • Compatible with Windows ME/2000/XP/Vista/7/8 and Mac OS 8.6
  • 2 year warranty
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As well as receiving 5 Stars by Computer Shopper the Lindy USB 2.0 Docking & Cloning Station was also awarded their Best Buy Award.
 
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This handy cloning station is ideal for system builders/integrators, computer technicians and IT departments. As well as acting as an external hard drive for 2.5" and 3.5" SATA hard disks it is also a convenient cloning station. It easily makes bit by bit clones (including Operating System and Partitions) of source HDDs onto target HDDs making it perfect for upgrading to larger capacity HDDs!
 
The docking functionality allows bare HDDs up to 2TB in capacity, to be connected to a computer via eSATA (3Gbps) or USB 2.0 (480Mbps). Data recovery and backups are done without the hassle of installation. The dual bay design allows two hard drives to be connected simultaneously, so that data can be copied between multiple drives of different types as 2.5" and 3.5" SATA drives are supported natively.
 
 
Notes on use
  • For correct operation, the target drive should be unformatted and without any partitions
  • Older drives up to 10GB, and drives with older 28 Bit LBA addresses are not supported
  • In general older hard drives with 512B sector size cannot be cloned to new hard drives / solid state drives with 4KB sector size
  • Newer hard drives with 4KB sector size can be cloned to other hard drives with 4KB sector size

 

For HDDs larger 2 TB and for SSDs please use our USB 3.0 Docking & Clone Station.

 

Package Contents

  • Docking & Cloning Station
  • 1m A to B USB Cable
  • 1m eSATA Cable
  • 1m UK to Fig 8 Power Cable 
  • External Power Supply
  • Lindy Manual
  • Supports SATA HDD capacities up to 2TB
  • High speed data transfer: up to 480Mbps (USB 2.0), 3Gbps (eSATA)
  • Connects to the computer via USB Type A or eSATA connection
  • USB and eSATA cable lengths: approx. 1m
  • External power adapter: 100 - 240V AC, 12V DC 2A & 5V DC 2A
  • Supplied with UK power supply cable, 1m
  • Includes JMicron chipset with eSATA port multiplier and clone function
  • For Clone function do not connect via USB or eSATA. Simply press the CLONE button, wait 5 seconds and press again
  • Interfaces: USB 2.0 and eSATA, hot swappable when supported by OS
  • Provides a direct connection to your SATA HDD 2.5"/3.5" for instant access
  • SATA HDD 2.5"/3.5" can be directly plugged in, 1.8" by MicroSATA adapter
  • IDE HDD may be connected via separate adapter cables and converter
  • Compliant with USB 2.0 (480Mbps) and eSATA II 3Gb/s 
Showing our 2 USB 2.0 & eSATA Docking & Cloning Station for 2.5" & 3.5" SATA Hard Drives reviews with an average rating of Array. Would you like to write a review?
Review Summary - 4 out of 5 based on 2 ratings.
November 5, 2013 | A.Non
Great, but take care on power plug

Works well but just be careful not to put the power lead in upside-down. That blows the drives.

Lindy International Ltd.
March 4, 2013 | Clifford French
Great for cloning perfect hard drives

Ordered Wednesday, arrived Thursday.
Unpacked Friday and cloned an 80GB drive onto a 500 GB drive in less than an hour. Cloned the C drive, leaving me 420 GB or thereabouts to use as D drive. Very pleased with this.
At home on Friday evening, started cloning a 1.5TB Western Digital Caviar green to an identical new drive (warranty replacement for my RAID array), gave up Sunday afternoon. Tried cloning to a WD Caviar Black, gave up after two days. Tried cloning with Paragon software which reported I/O errors on my source drive. Lindy say that if there is an error, it is not reported and the device will run for ever. Conclusion - great device, works well, unless you have errors on your source drive, in which case it is not useful.
Will confine use to cloning new drives. Recommended subject to the above reservation. If your drive is faulty in any way, it is too late to clone it with this device.

Lindy International Ltd.