MAIWO 4-Bay USB3.0 External 2.5/3.5" SATA Docking Station US$44.34 / A$70.41 Delivered @ Orico HDD Case store via AliExpress

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4 port SATA docking station, good for turning anything without internal 2.5/3.5" bays into a NAS like device, or for hiding noisy server drives somewhere more soundproof to shut them up.

20tb listed max capacity for drives, 7a 12v 84w power supply. This does not function as a cloning station.

I've had this model now for a couple of months, this is the first one of these I've used that has been rock solid, no weird issues putting drives to sleep and being unable to wake them up or disconnecting itself from USB at random, drives stay up and visible without hassles, and can do simultaneous read/writes to multiple drives in and out of the dock at ~350MB/s with all ports in use, or ~420MB/s on diskmark benches for the old SATA SSDs I've thrown in it to test.

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  Nom on 21/06/2025 - 14:34

  +3

  If you're looking for an actual enclosure, MAIWO are good at these too - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007320755776.html

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    Damonator84 on 21/06/2025 - 15:08

    -3

    That's two Bay, op is 4bay

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  elusive on 21/06/2025 - 14:40

  Any chance you could grab the SATA chipset? I'm curious to see what the internal layout might be, if it isn't one of the port mirror ones that'd be great.

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    stimutacs on 21/06/2025 - 14:47

    HWInfo says JMicron JMS567 Sata 6gb/s bridge over genesys logic.

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  elusive on 21/06/2025 - 14:57

  Thanks. Sadly that one looks to be a single port bridge so there's probably an expander behind it.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/jcloqv/which_a…

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    stimutacs on 21/06/2025 - 15:07

    Yeah I don't know what to make of that, trim/retrim appears to work in win11 on an SSD used in the enclosure and the speeds suggest it's working as a UAS device.

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  10-80 on 21/06/2025 - 18:26

  I've been using a couple of these for a few years and am happy with them.

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  sydney rider on 21/06/2025 - 21:47

  is it RAID 0 or 1 or 4 discs as individual?

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    stimutacs on 21/06/2025 - 22:14

    +1

    Individual, no raid on the hardware itself.

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      sydney rider on 21/06/2025 - 23:27

      yes, make sense for the price.