Specification
Product Details
- Color: Black
- Brand: Plugable Technologies
- Model: USB3-SATA-UASP1
Features
- Supports all 3.5-inch SATA drives up to any capacity (3TB+).
- Docking station connects via SuperSpeed USB 3.0 (up to 10x as fast as USB 2.0).
- UASP (USB Attached SCSI Protocol) support for even faster performance. UASP requires UASP capable host system.
- Serial ATA bus up to 6Gbps Signal bandwidth for fast storage backups
- Includes 12V/2.5A AC power adapter, so dock will work connected to any USB port.
Product Description
Features future-proof USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 connectivity. Open docking bay for easy dock/undock of bare/internal SATA drives. Connect a single 3.5" or 2.5" SATA drive at SuperSpeed USB 3.0 transfer rates (up to 10x as fast as USB 2.0). Backward compatible with USB 2.0 and 1.1 at their native speeds. Practical transfer rates with USB 3.0 will vary by machine, typically between 500Mbps and 2Gbps.
Simple SATA drive dock
Lightweight (14 oz) and simple design so it's easy to connect and use. Simply slide drives gently into top of docking station, with SATA connectors aligned. Do not exert force. Drives will attach and rest on the SATA connector with the drive centered in the dock, with space for airflow on all sides.
Power button for powering off drive when not in use. Drive sleeps automatically on OS power events or 10 minutes of idle.
Compatibility
No drivers required: uses standard USB mass storage class support already provided in Windows XP and later, Mac, and Linux. LED reports drive activity. Power switch allows drive to be turned on/off independently. For USB 3.0 use, must be connected to a USB 3.0 port.
In the box
USB 3.0 to SATA HDD Docking Station (using ASMedia 1053E chipset), USB 3.0 Cable, 12V/2.5A AC power adapter.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
By John Fenton
After fighting (eventually successfully) this summer to find a firmware-driver combination that would allow a 4-bay USB 3.0 enclosure using a JMicron 539 chipset to work reliably in USB 3.0 mode with my Dell Windows 7 (now Windows 8) machine, and recently fighting and failing to get two other docking stations to work reliably in USB 3.0 mode (with either my Mac mini (Late 2012) or the aforementioned Dell), I was relieved to find that this Plugable dock works reliably with both machines out of the box. (I now have two completely, 100% reliable SATA-to-USB 3.0 devices that work on multiple machines without issue, both based on ASMedia chipsets, this one the ASM1053 and the other the ASM1051.)Physical notes: I like the flat configuration given my two-tiered computer desk. I can use vertical docks, but it requires a bit of angling to insert drives vertically with the dock between the tiers. The flat dock eliminates that problem and also reduces or eliminates any movement of the drive if the desk is moved or bumped. The vertical docks tend to allow a little more side-to-side movement than I like. Another minor plus: drives sit in the dock label side up, and in the typical configuration, with the dock cables away from me, most drives labels will be in the correct orientation to read the drive description. It's esthetically pleasing. My drive came with a seemingly well-constructed/shielded 3' black USB 3.0 cable. For better or worse, the power brick sits at the end of the power cord with the plug integrated. The dock will not function without external power. There is a recessed physical on-off switch on the top of the dock in the back left corner. It is nicely impossible to turn on or off accidentally.Performance notes: Attached directly to my Mac mini (Late 2012) with a Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200.12 drive, benchmark programs show both reads and writes around 110MB/s. An actual copy operation in the Finder of a 100GB directory of home movie files averaged just over 100MB/s read from and just under 100MB/s written to. Those numbers roughly match the fastest performance I've seen over any USB 3.0 connection for this drive, so the drive is probably the limiting factor. Benchmark transfer rates were moderately lower (~90MB/s) using a slower 1.5TB Seagate Green 5900RPM drive, so again, the drive is the bottleneck. At the moment, I don't have a spare SSD to see what the dock is really capable of.Connection Problems: Absolutely none in all of my testing, even during extended duplication operations on the drive. (Copy operations have uniformly driven my troublesome docks crazy.) (Copying the 100GB movie folder averaged just under 60MB/s simultaneously reading from and writing back to the drive.)Other notes: The "2nd Generation" ASM1053 controller in the dock supports the more efficient UASP (USB attached SCSI protocol), but at this point, I can't verify whether my Mac supports that mode or not or whether it is active. Some of the new Macs are supposed to support it, but there's very little documentation. And I don't really have a drive capable of taking advantage of the improved speed and efficiency.* * * * *Update: Doing a bit of digging, I've been able to verify that my Mac mini (Late 2012), OS X 10.8.2 is using the "IOUSBAttachedSCSI" IOClass driver for drives attached with this dock. By comparison, for a different ASM1051-based SATA-to-USB 3.0 adapter and my USB 3.0 blu-ray player, my Mac mini is using the "IOUSBMassStorageClass" IOClass driver. So that bodes well for the performance of this dock with faster drives, including SSDs.* * * * *Update (April 2013): I finally had a new SSD to test with the dock, and I was delighted at the performance. The SSD was an SK Hynix SATA-III SH910 Series 128GB SSD destined to go in my wife's laptop. Using another reliable USB 3.0-SATA adapter based on the ASM1051 chipset, the SSD benchmarked at ~185Mbps write and ~190Mbps read. Pretty good. But switching to the Plugable Lay-Flat dock yielded ~285 Mbps write and ~355 Mbps read. (I confirmed using IORegistryExplorer that the Mac mini (Late 2012), OS X 10.8.3 was using the "IOUSBAttachedSCSI" IOClass driver for the drive, which I assume is responsible for the improved performance relative to the other adapter.)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
By Stefan C. Mazur
A recent win8 "upgrade" rendered all my SATA & USB docks nonfunctional and there are no drivers available anywhere- a major issue because I use about 10-15 old SATA "bare" drives (1-3TB) for backup in addition to the usual "external USB" backup drives. Research yielded nothing useful because most reviewers dont identify their OS and Win8 has a clear SATA driver issue. However I came upon an excellent detailed review by John Fenton on Amazon and decided based on his comments to try the "Plugable USB 3 SATA. My order was shipped locally out of CA and I had it within a couple days via OnTrac. The rest was awesome and the way it should be, unpack, connect, watch the OS discovery process with loading/downloading the driver (if necessary), insert your SATA drive and you're off to the races. Not even a minute. While I was mostly concerned wiht compatibility rather than speed, I had a pleasant and major surprise in terms of throughput. This unit delivers awesome speed but since I did not clock transfer times I have to refer to John Fenton's excellent review on that. My impression is that this dock delivers almost SATA like performance, backups seem super fast. I since ordered another identical dock which I received as well. An excellent well timed product which I can only recommend unreservedly.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
By JL
Recently, I've trying a bunch of different USB 3.0 drive enclosures and drive docks, and almost invariably, they have problem with either stability (dropouts, lost connection, device disappearing) or speed. I've been reading about Plugable's products for awhile, and I finally got around to ordering their "lay-flat" docking station from Amazon.That just arrived today, and as soon as I got home, I dropped one of my M4 SSDs into it, and did a series of tests that included running HDTach and doing some large transfers.I have to report that:1) The dock is super stable! Throughout the testing that I did, I didn't encounter a single stability problem. No dropped connections, no dropouts.2) This dock is super fast! HDTach reported 240+ MB/s burst and slightly under 260 MB/s average read speeds (not sure how the average could be higher than the burst though :)), and I copied about 70GB using Teracopy, and got 65 MB/s copy speed and 94 MB/s test speed.And the BEST part was that 70 GB copy completed and tested without any dropouts!! I kept watching the Teracopy progress, waiting for something bad to happen.... the copy and test just went completely smoothly...After testing so many USB 3.0 enclosures and docks previously, this is just amazing :)!P.S. Testing was done with a Toshiba C855 laptop with USB 3.0 port.
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