CONCLUSION 

   The ICY BOX IB-120CL-U3 is not the first USB 3.0 compatible docking station to reach our hands so we weren't really surprised with its high read/write data transfer speeds. What did surprise us however was the faster cloning of drives compared to the HDD cloner by SandBerg which we reviewed a while back. Still 7 full hours to clone a 3TB SATA III drive is not really what I’d call a success certainly not when you can clone the same drive by plugging it into a SATA port in less than half the time. Of course HDD cloners are easier to use, require almost no power at all (compared to an entire system) and you don't have to worry about something going wrong during the cloning procedure so i guess for people who are not much into digging inside their systems this is the obvious choice. Performance aside RaidSonic used good quality materials for the IB-120CL-U3 and really seems to have focused more on its design than most manufacturers of similar units.

   With a current price tag set at around 45Euros inside the EU you can't really go wrong with the ICY BOX IB-120CL-U3 Docking & Clone Station by RaidSonic since it combines very fast read/write speeds with disk cloning capability. Of course it's not the first time that i can't locate a product by RaidSonic inside the USA so availability seems to be the only issue with the IB-120CL-U3 something which i hope gets soon solved. Bottom line the numbers have spoken so unless you have a problem with the color combination of the ICY BOX IB-120CL-U3 Docking & Clone Station (or you happen to live inside the USA) then it comes highly recommended by us and also gets our Golden Award.

PROS

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

CONS

- Cloning Procedure Takes Long To Complete (Still Faster Than the Competition)