CONCLUSION

   The Sandberg USB 3.0 HDD Cloner left me with mixed feelings since on one hand it's a very good external dual HDD docking station with very good transfer speeds (not as good as the Zalman enclosure but keep in mind that this is primarily a disk cloner device) but on the other hand it takes forever to clone a high capacity HDD onto another. According to the people who designed the unit this is done because the entire procedure actually clones every single sector of the drive regardless of whether or not it's written or empty. There's a bright side however to all of this and that's the simplicity of the cloner which allows it to be used by pretty much everyone out there so for people who don't know how or simply can't perform the same cloning procedure using their computer the USB 3.0 HDD Cloner by Sandberg could be the ideal solution (as long as they are not in a hurry).

   As with most products manufactured by Sandberg i was only able to locate the USB 3.0 HDD Cloner inside the EU where it's sold for around 55Euros a price which is not too shabby since we are talking about an dual bay USB 3.0 docking station with disk cloning capability. True people who actually know their way around the interior of a computer would be better off cloning a drive by using the internal SATA connectors paired with an cloning suite like Acronis or Casper and save lots of time in the process. However for people who are not so knowledgeable the USB 3.0HDD Cloner by Sandberg is both an easy to use drive cloner and a dual bay external HDD docking station and that's why we can't really deny it our Golden award.

PROS

- Build Quality (Aluminum Exterior)
- Performance (Read/Write Speeds)
- USB 3.0
- Dual Docking Station
- Standalone Drive Cloner
- Price (For Some)

CONS

- Cloning Procedure Takes Long To Complete