FIDECO Hard Drive Docking Station, M.2 NVME SSD Docking Station with Cooling Fan, Support 2.5 and 3.5 inch SATA HDD SSD, and M.2 NVME SATA SSD, Ultimate Heat Dissipation

Worked straight out of the box

Does its job as described the fan is a excellent addition

A great multi featured hard drive dock

I was pleased, then slightly disappointed, then annoyed. If I could give half stars I'd give 3.5 out of 5 because it does at least work for the fundamentals. But why the disappointment? Read on.It all started well. The packaging is really good with the unboxing experience considered well. The USB lead it comes with is superb quality, very flexible and has an integrated USB-C to USB-A adaptor which is always helpful. The mains adaptor is really nice quality as well. It does what it advertises itself to do perfectly, and I've had 2.5" and 3.5" hard drives and a SATA SSD plugged in for either Windows or Linux depending where I needed it. Speed is absolutely fine and as expected for the media plugged into it.But there are design issues that drag it down. It's a bit light, lighter than expected and than it looks. The black-and-silver plastic design is dated and for something fairly large on your desk you probably don't want to feel like it's from twenty years ago. (The LED on it is, at least, not an eyeball-piercing blue but a calming white - one day manufacturers will give up on bright blue LEDs and that day can't come soon enough.)The most frustrating design issue (and potentially calamitous) is the rear switch for turning on and off the fan, because it's not an automatic thing. The power switch is a nice, normal switch, easy to use and easy to find as you fell around the back. The switch for the fan is an altogether different affair though, a stiff slide switch poking out through the case. "That's not so bad, I can live with that," you think.Well, here's the thing. When you feel around the back to turn it on, you'll try sliding it, pushing this way and that, and due to the stiffness nothing will happen. Then you'll wonder if you've got the right thing, you will feel further across the back, you'll find the power switch and you'll automatically press it because it's what we're conditioned to do. If you wanted the fan on because the drive was hot, it's probably down to being in heavy use, and what you've done instead is switch the adaptor off in the middle of copying files, effectively yanking the disk from the computer like you're absolutely never supposed to do.Fortunately for me I was testing the unit for review, and didn't lose anything except some time and happiness. But it needn't have been like this; with just a bit of more thoughtful industrial design it could've been great. A better switch in a better position is all it would take to forgive the 2004 vibes.So 3.5 stars, but it has to be adjusted down to 3.

I bought this to help troubleshoot drives of all types that are modern. It seems to work well apart from the fan which is too noisy even though moderately effective.

Hub has fan included to cool your ardour. Can take NVMe or SSD in two appropriate slots. Only one to be used in operative mode. Not for older 7cm metal HDDs.Fan has independent switch. Recommended.

Perfect and great performance.

This device comes with external power supply and USB-C to USB-C (with USB-A adapter) cable and instruction manual. I tried this device with two laptops and a normal hard disk and an SSD and both were not recognized by the system, so could not test