GoKawiilIcy Box Docking and Clone Station 4 / 5 Very good pros and cons Pros It's a dock and a cloning station
Simple and reliable "one-button" HDD and SDD cloning
Can handle SATA and M.2 SATA/NVMe drives. Cons Requires external power for cloning
No time indicator for how long a cloning process will take. $64.99 at Amazon
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While the average user is unlikely to handle a bare SATA HDD or M.2 drive, anyone who builds or maintains PCs, or runs their own NAS systems, will be familiar with these drives. And there inevitably comes a time when you either want to move data from one drive to another, or you need an easy way to access a bare drive from a computer without dealing with enclosures and the like.
Since I'm working hard to reduce desk clutter, if I can find a tool that does both things, I'll go for it. And if I can get such a gadget for under $100 (because duplication stations can cost hundreds, or even thousands), then that's a bonus.
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Enter the Icy Box Docking and CloneStation. Icy Box is a name that's been around for a very long time -- a German brand renowned for its storage systems and RAID devices. If something has the Icy Box name on it, that's always been a strong indicator of quality.
And this product is no exception.
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