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Question: What's the best method to eject the hard drive?  Windows eject media, power off unit, and then pull hard drive?  Or can I just pull the hard drive?
Document: I was helping a friend make the transition from her old Windows 7 laptop to a new Toshiba laptop. We needed an external dock for two reasons. First was so I could pull the drive out of her old system and mount it for fast and easy access to her files. Second was to use as an external backup for her system. This unit looks to be a great solution to both problems.Setup is a no brainer on this unit. Plug in the power, hook up the included USB 3 cable and plug in a drive.
Fast speeds and a front power button. My only dig is the lack of an eject button/lever. Without that you've gotta hold the base down and pull the drive out. Overall really great tho.
After that, it automatically comes up in Explorer as that letter (as long as you don't later assign that letter to any other drive you dock). This is convenient if you want to use automated software to copy stuff over. On my system it takes 11 seconds for a drive to appear in Explorer after powering on the docking station.The manual doesn't tell you to use the Windows eject option before powering off the docking station, but that's good practice. If you press the power button in the middle of copying, it will power off immediately and the copy operation will abort.
These HDD docking stations are great little products and Anker is one of the best! Works great as promised! Avoids paying big dollars for a fully cased/wired HDD. Takes about 3 seconds to slip the &#34;internal&#34; HDD into the dock and another 5 to bring up to full speed. When finished, pull it out of the dock and store it. That way, it won't be skewered with a major power spike. Great for full system backups and clones.
Bought this as a replacement for a Thermaltake Blacx USB 2.0 only dock that died. So far so good. I have used it with 3.5", 2.5" HDD and 2.5" SSD. Fast and no issues. I like that there's no eject button - drive just rests on the interface and you pull it out nice and smooth.
This Uspeed USB 3 & eSATA hard drive dock works as described. I have not had any problems during the two weeks I've had it. File transfer speed on my Windows 7 is ~65 MB/sec with USB 3 and ~46 MB/sec with eSATA. On XP, the transfer speeds were 40 MB/sec with eSATA and 24 MB/sec on USB 2. My XP does not have USB 3 so it is backwards USB compatible. Nice product at a very reasonable price.You push the hard drive on and pull it off.
This occurs when Windows can't tell two bootable hard drives apart, so it keeps the external one offline. However, this time when I right-clicked on the word "offline" I was able to get a popup with "Online" as a choice. I chose that and Windows quickly assigned all the partitions letters *except* the "C" partition, which it skipped over and kept offline.Now unhappily for me, the whole reason I bought this docking bay was to pull data off old drives that used to be installed in my computers, of which every one is a bootable drive.
What can you say? It does what it says on the tin. Runs quietly, cooly, and at USB 3 speeds. A point off for being built at an angle, which makes it a bit tricky to slot the drives in and for not having an eject button, i.e., you have to pull the drives out.
This unit provides a very simple (and quick USB 3) way to access information from multiple hard drives. We use several of these units to transfer footage from our active media servers to hard drives for archival storage. They have preformed flawlessly and represent a significant speed increase from our older firewire devices.
This is one of the best hard drive docks I have ever used. We use a lot of docks at work and they always by the cheap one, I bought this for home and it works great. Cable and power pack are also very high quality and heavy gauge cable. Highly recommend for anyone that swaps out drive a lot. Very durable product.
Answer: I power off the Anker unit and remove the hard drive.  It works perfectly.