Pros: When it works, this type of device is the fastest and most economical way to mount bare SATA hard drives to your tower or laptop via USB or eSATA. The Kingwin EZ-Dock includes both USB & eSATA cables, a 2.5" disk with cloning software for use with a PC (not Mac), a separate power supply, and it has a 1-year factory warranty. I think the construction is adequate for normal use, but would prefer all-in-one rather than having a separate power supply.

Cons: Unfortunately, the EZ-Dock I received was DOA. I placed a working SATA drive (formatted for both PC & Mac) in this unit and tried connecting to a PC and then a Mac via eSATA and also USB. The PC never mounted the drive thru either the USB or eSATA connection. The Mac did mount the drive thru eSATA, but after various amounts of time and for no obvious reason, the drive would dismount. The Mac did not recognize the drive via USB.

Overall Review: A couple years ago, after getting tired of the hassle of swapping bare PATA drives in & out of an external enclosure, I tried a device similar to but a bit more primitive than this EZ-Dock. I immediately liked the concept, so I purchased and still use that device for pulling files off my older PATA drives. When the price w/rebate for the Kingwin EZ-Dock unit fell within my range, I quickly placed an order with newegg and within a few days it was on my doorstep. This is my first 1-egg rating for a product purchased from newegg. :( I am requesting a replacement, and will post here again with the results.

Pros: got here on time, worked like a charm for about 10 min.

Cons: after 10 minutes it became unreliable afreezing up and such.

Overall Review: Did get to run hd tach on it before it locked up and throughput on my raptor 74gb was excellent, maybe I got a bad one but I ordered the Thermaltake instead

Pros: I'm hoping to find some as I like the concept of this product.

Cons: Unit not working.

Overall Review: This replaced my initial unit which was broken on arrival. I was not able to install this unit. The drive receives powere through both the USB and eSATA connectors but the drive does not register on my Win XP system. I have contacted Kingwin for help.

Pros: Simple to use, no drivers needed. I used this docking unit with Windows XP to clone a laptop hard drive using Acronis True Image. I repair PC's, so it's rather handy.

Cons: None

Pros: Size?

Cons: (1) The eSATA cable that came with this unit was defective. The unit kept being dropped as a usable volume in Vista. (2) Font used for the unit's labeling is terrible and looks tacky. (3) Drives cannot be formatted from the unit. You have to initialize them on a separate connection, then attache them. (4) According to "Tech Support," 1TB Seagate drives don't work on this unit. WD ones do. (5) I returned the trashy unit at a loss.

Pros: Simple. Optional eSATA connection. Handles both laptop and desktop drives easily, and quickly. Macbook quickly recognized the drive as well as PC.

Cons: A little bulky, but is stable for that reason.

Overall Review: I use this for pulling/transfering files off of customer computers. I would not consider this as a permanent solution for an external hard drive. Allows HD to stand up vertically exposed, so you can easily direct a house fan on it if things get hot. Never used the backup software included.

Pros: This is a very easy way and great concept, totally handy, and totally easy. Product work well as expected and does everything as sated. Very happy with my Kingwin EZ-Dock.

Cons: Can't really think of any.

Overall Review: Newegg fast shipping rocks, the product got here before I know it.

Pros: - Decent eSATA interface - Drive activity indicator - Very stable (heavy) base - Decent build quality - Comes with 1 each eSATA cable, USB cable, power dongle - Very inexpensive if you can still find it.

Cons: Can take both 2.5" and 3.5" drives, but as others have pointed out, there really isn't any provision (like a "flap") for securing a 2.5" drive in place.

Overall Review: I've tried a number of different "toaster" style docking stations with eSATA (I'm mainly interested in eSATA), and while most work, when you test them using something like HDTach, you see less than optimal performance. This Kingwin was on sale locally, so I decide for slightly more than 10, to try it, and I was amazed because it performs quite well compared to more expensive ones. With HDTach and a Samsung 1TB 7200 RPM F3, I see average read of 112MB/sec. The burst seems somewhat lower than others, ~145MB/sec. Write tests, using file copy on Win7 are ok, ~70-80MB/sec. The thing that is nice (to me) is when I test this dock with HDTach, I don't see the huge "dropouts" that I've seen with some other docks, where the read speed would drop to almost nothing at certain locations on the drive.