Question 1

If you have two drives docked and being read by the computer, can you eject one without ejecting the other?

Accepted Answer

Hello Brian,

Yes and No.

In general, while the HD dock is powered ON, you should NOT add or remove any drives (while the power stays ON).

However, if you push the big circle power button and turn OFF power to the HD dock, then YES - you can eject just one drive and either leave the bay empty or put in another drive and then power the dock back ON.

So in other words, it's safest and works properly when you power OFF the dock BEFORE switching/removing/adding drives.

Question 2

Can this one connect to router directly?

Accepted Answer

> A shopper is looking for an answer from a fellow customer about VANTEC
NexStar
> SuperSpeed NST-D400SU3-BK Plastic 2.5" & 3.5" Black USB3.0 & eSATA Dual
Bay Hard Drive Dock.
> A shopper asked: Can this one connect to router directly?

No. This is not a NAS (Network Attached Storage). This dock has two
connectors: eSata and USB3. You cannot connect it to a router that requires
an Ethernet connector, you need to connect to your computer, either directly
to a USB-3.0 or eSATA connector at the motherboard, or through a PCI
add-on card that provides such a connector. Moreover, you eSata 
controller should support so-called port multiplier feature. Otherwise, the OS will see only one drive.

Question 3

Can you use USB 3.0 on one drive and eSATA on the other at the same time?  The reason I ask is that I do disk imaging and would love to speed up throughput by using the seperate interfaces at the same time.

Other idea is to get two single docks and plug into separate USB 3.0 ports...thoughts?

Accepted Answer

bulk data writes are slow, no way around it.  Check drive write speed stats, then consider if making a channel bigger that is not your bottleneck is going to help you at all.

Question 4

Does the 6TB spec mean the total capacity (ie. 3TB per drive) or per drive (ie. 6TB per drive, 12TB total)?

Accepted Answer

This is per bay. However, I have not been able to test its full capacity. We are using 4 TB drives currently. Hope this helps!

Question 5

Is this compatible with SSD drives?

Accepted Answer

Yes. I have run a Samsung 830 in it.

Question 6

Did anyone figure out how to turn off drive spinning down (for non-ssd)? It's annoying that it has to do up-down on drive spinning (and slow!) even at very short intervals.

Accepted Answer

I've done that before, but it has nothing to do with the Vantec, it is the firmware of the HDD, there are programs to change the settings in the firmware, it flashes the HDD, I believe there is a way to do it within Windows but I have forgotten

Question 7

Does this product support SSD?

Accepted Answer

This dock does support SSDs.  I use it all the time to read my spare SSD drives.

Question 8

Will it handle 6 TB drives 12 TB total and will I have reformat existing drives?

Accepted Answer

The specs show maximum capacity of 6.0 TB per bay, so you should be alright with two 6.0 TB drives.

Question 9

Does this device support 4KB of sector?

Accepted Answer

yes

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