Hey everyone Patrik CK here.
A few weeks ago Weme reached out and asked if I could do a showcase of their Dual-Bay
External Hard Drive Docking Station model MST-006.
Their timing couldn’t have been better, I was in need of cloning an old defective
SSD to get my mom’s computer back up and running, more on that in a bit.
I took them up on it and they shipped me one to showcase.
First off the packaging includes the docking station, a dust cover for the dock, something
simple that is sorely missing from other hard drive docking stations, all though you may
have to cut a flap out so you don’t have to disconnect the dock to cover it.
There’s a 12V 3amp wall adapter and a beefy 3.3 foot (1 meter) USB 3.0 type A data cable,
a type C is also available.
The docking station has a very subtle and compact design allowing it to feel right at
home pretty much anywhere.
I like that there’s only a small strip of glossy plastic along the top, I’ll leave
the protective layer as I still don’t want finger prints all over it.
The rubber feet on the bottom makes sure the dock doesn’t move around especially while
your drives are spinning.
Finally the simple LED layout and one button operation makes off-line cloning as easy as
it gets.
With support for two SATA drives of the 2.5 inch or 3.5 inch variety with capacities up
to 12TB you can move absolutely tones of data in one fell swoop using the built in cloning
function.
A couple key things to remember before cloning a drive, first the capacity of the drive you
are moving data to, the target, needs to be larger than the one you are copying from,
the source.
For instance if the source drive has a capacity of 500gb the target drive’s capacity should
be something like 1terabyte or larger.
Secondly, if there is any data on the target drive you should back it up somewhere else
first, as all data on the target drive will be over written during the cloning process.
The set up for off-line cloning is very simple, plug in the power to the wall, slide in your
storage devices, making sure to put in the drive that is being cloned, the source, into
slot A and the drive the data will be copied to, the target, in slot B. Now you can turn
on the dock by pressing the power button on the back.
You’ll know everything is set when the power LED lights up along with the LEDs for slots
A and B.
To start the cloning process hold down the clone button for about 3 seconds, at which
point the 100% progress LEDs will light up indicating the cloning process is ready.
Press the clone button again while the blue is on and sit back.
While the cloning process runs the progress LEDs will flash and go solid as each step
is completed going from 25% to 50% to 75% to 100%.
Once the 100% progress LED is solid the cloning process is complete.
In my case I was copying roughly 63gigs of data from an older 120gig SSD that stopped
being recognized in the BIOS into a newer 240gig SSD, this took about 17 minutes for
me, but obviously larger capacities will take longer to complete.
One nice feature of the dock is if you do leave it alone for a while and it completes
a clone it will automatically power down after 30 minutes so it doesn’t needlessly use
electricity.
One more thing to remember is that it’s best to power off the dock before removing
or inserting any storage devices.
Once the clone was done I was able to pop in the new drive into my mom’s computer
and she was able to pick up right where she left off when the old SSD stopped working.
To use the dock as an external storage device simply hook it up with the provided USB cable
to your computer or Mac, when you power it on any drives you have inserted will appear
on your computer alongside your internal drives.
To best represent some real world transfers I created a 1.5gb file package with almost
2000 files that consist of sizeable videos and a large hierarchy of smaller files like
word docs, spreadsheets, pictures, etc.
Doing some files transfer tests with an old Sandisk SSD slotted in place shows transfer
speeds of up to 150megabytes per second or 1.2gigbits per second in both directions,
dropping near the end as it hit all the smaller files.
These are pretty respectable real world speeds for this old SSD, this is thanks to the help
UASP protocols.
That wraps up my showcase of the WEme hard drive dock, it is a great little companion
for anyone that needs to create clones or hook up large capacity hard drives without
having to take apart their computer for one file and for $32 on you can’t go wrong.
As a special offer to my viewers you can get an additional 10% off when buying the dock
on Amazon.
Discount code and link will be in the description.
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Hope to see you all next time, so long for now.