NewerTech Voyager S3, 0GB Drive Dock Enclosure, USB 3.0 Interface, SATA 6Gb/s, (NWTU3S3HD), For hot-swapping 2.5 and 3.5 inch drives

When I look at reviews of other ~similar docks, I see lots of cautionary tales. But OWC and NewerTech represent a solid brand that OWC cares about and don't sell marginal product. It's a bit higher-priced than the competition, but what's your data worth? What's your convenience worth (the product working flawlessly)?I just ran a clone of my boot disk - (~1TB) and it worked flawlessly. Yes, that's only one data point of course. But it's quiet, runs cool and just works. I'm happy.The only negative is the the USB3 (A>B) cable is not very long (about 18"?). But it's high quality with ferrite dampeners.

All good. As advertised.

I got this to replace another external enclosure that didn't work (see my reviews). This is a really nice product, works great.Pros: solidly-built, easy to use, and very fast - measured transfer speed of 300 MB/s via USB 3.0.Cons: requires a power brick, can't run on just USB power (for some silly reason). A bit large, not going in your shirt pocket.I'd certainly recommend this, if its form-factor works for you.

This hard drive dock is one of the most useful and important tools I use in my workshop. It works well, and has never failed. I know own four of these, as they are ideal to use cheaper, large capacity bare drives for redundant storage than external drives with enclosures. With these docks, I can afford to make multiple copies for much less than conventional external drives would cost. Those drives are then packed away in static-free bags for archiving digital files. Also useful for accessing data on a drive that still works even though the computer has failed. Highly recommend.

Easy to use. Quality product

My computer crashed with a mega-load of unbacked up data. Hoping that the problem was the motherboard and not the hard drive, I purchased the Voyager SATA Drive Docking Solution and was able to read the drive and retrieve all of my data. Have since reformatted the hard drive from the crashed computer and now use the docking station with that SATA Drive as a "back-up" unit which backs up my new computer every night. I am very pleased with the performance, speed of transfer and ease of use.Update: I purchased the Voyager in 2012 and 10 years later I am still using it as one of my backup units. I know there are smaller drives, but none as dependable. I have changed to 5 stars

I'm a Mac user and need a lot of additional space for movie making. I rely on this Drive Dock Enclosure because you can switch out different drives whenever you need to. I've used these docks for years and highly recommend them.

I've used a fair number of doc stations, last transaction back in in 2020, I bought this and a Spindo. I thought the Spindo (dual slot) was going out, put this into use and it's been fine. I've tested it as a backup & clone device and a boot device for my Windows 10 PC.Booting from it with the normal RAIDed OS drives still in place, pleasantly the drive retained the removable drive letter and did not replace my normal c:\ drive.That would be my personal preference if I had to use it as a boot drive to troubleshoot my normal system drive, of course it also verified the clone (done with Macrium) worked.It booted fast and backed up fast connected to the rear USB 3.2 ports on my ProArt Motherboard.I've only used it with Basic partitions and drives of 2 TB or less. Since 2 TB fits my uses I don't feel a need for GPT partitions which add some complexityI prefer dual slot docks but there are a lot of suspect reviews on many of the more current docks and the dual slot Spindo I have, it wasn't really bad, it just doesn't like older power thirsty mechanical drives. I may have fixed that by changing the power supply to one 100w largerThe knock to 4 stars is because of the single slot. It's not a big problem for me, I run 500gb RAID SSDs for the OS and 2TB RIADed mechanical drives for the data. I don't use the full 500GB for the OS, I keep some unused space for the trim function to use (as the SSD wears). Though I try to minimize the SSD wear by using a RAM drive for the browser caches.I have plenty of room to keep an image of the SSD OS drive on the mechanical drive if I desire.Normally I use a rotating series of offline backups for both DATA and OS, done with Macrium and cloned to a drive in the dock. RAID is great, it allows for graceful recovery from a single drive failure but a few off line backups are mandatory in my view. It's hard for a blue screening new device driver (yes I speak from personal experience), a virus or a disastrous hardware failure to ruin drives that are sitting in a desk drawer.Some ransomware has a time delay before activating, keeping a historic backup (a year old or more along with a couple of more current off-line backups is my choice and I image (not clone) a computer's OS drive before I decommission it and store it on yet another offline drive. That saves the question of; did I miss that photo that never made it out off some sub folder on the OS drive. Macrium allows for image browsing and selected file restorationAll in all the docks are highly useful and since I'm about to buy another Voyager (for a friend), seemed like a good time to do a review.

Product works as advertised, setup was fast and simple works great!

Mi è arrivato puntuale sulla data prevista, purtroppo il cavo di alimentazione ha la spina di tipo anglosassone. Manca l'adattatore per Italia e non riesco ancora a utilizzarlo.

Great product! Helped me retrieve old photos and documents from old laptops which stopped working.

I brought two cheaper Chinese made SATA/IDE kits to transfer files from an old hard drive to my new computer, they burnt out within seconds of switching them on, wires smokes and cables fused together. I then came across this baby. Well made, very easy to use. It cost the same as the two cheap useless ones I brought. Quality product, wish I'd seen this first. Wish I could give it more than 5 stars. You'll need to buy a 8 shaped cable to connect for power, it doesn't come with one, quess that's because plugs are different the world over. Don't buy Chinese electrics, buy quality it's cheaper in the long run.

Great