PH
19 de febrero de 2023
It works if your careful
This dock device works with Linuxmint 20.x. SATA HHDs/SSDs work. On Linux, each first level folder it finds on the drive is automatically mounted separately to the desktop. Only supports SATA drives - cannot connect IDE drives. It uses the faster UASP (USB Attached SCSI Protocol) over USB 3.0. At least for me, with UASP, the highest transfer speed I saw was around 230 MB/s (something like that). However, overtime the speed slows down as a file transfers. However, it's still faster than native USB 3.0. I tried using another USB 3.1 capable enclosure (Orinco brand - clear plastic) connected to USB 3.0 on the motherboard. With native USB 3.0, the transfer speed was around 30 MB/s. So, UASP makes data transfers faster. Didn't test with any Windows operating systems - might be even faster - not sure.It sleeps after 30 minutes and I'm still not sure how to wake it up yet.It's supports "hot swapable", however it's too easy to remove a drive when its doing something (not good). Put a drive you want to use in the back slot first.I didn't try the "offline" feature of cloning a drive by pressing the front button for 3 secs (i think it's 3...have to look again). I recall it copies FROM the back slot TO the front slot. Also, I didn't try to format a drive with it but from what I've read it's supposed to work.I put in an older ZFS formated drive and it was able to see the drive, but couldn't mount it because it was only one drive from a multi-disk pool.It seems to have written MBR on my exFAT formated 4 TB SSD drive, however I'm not sure what slot the SSD drive was in, if the device went to sleep, etc. Anyhow, a MBR (Master Boot Record) was written to the drive (I didn't put it there) and the drive then reported as a DOS disk. LOL. The list of files on it dissapeared because of this, but since I didn't write to the drive after that happened, I was able to recover the full files with the free opensource software called Testdisk by CGSecurity (Google it, it works fairly well and works on a number of operating systems). I even used the dock to recover the files...LOL, because it wasn't critical data on the drive. Just kicking the tires. I wouldn't use this dock to recover files normally.I still need to test if this dock works while connected to a router's USB port but I read it should work (as long as your router can read the files and share them). Will it serve up files? Will it go to sleep and prevent you from accessing the files? I don't know yet. I need to try this.I'd rather use something with fault tolerance instead of this. I won't use this dock with drives that have important data on them (or not backed up data). Make sure you back up your important data with a reliable method/hardware.Even with all that said, it's still a handy device to have as long as you are careful.Ver másVer menos
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