[SOLVED] Is my Sabrent dock obsolete?

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dahermit

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I have a Sabrent dock that I have used for a few years to clone and backup my computer hard drives. Recently, I upgraded all four desktop computers to internal SSD's. I used a USB to SATA cable to run the clones onto the SSD's. This begs the question: Is there any reason (without me actually trying it), that I cannot use those cables to clone/backup my SSD's to HD's using those USB to SATA cables I used on the SSD's making my Sabrent dock obsolete?
 
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That cable will work for a SATA SSD.
Most, but not all, 2.5" HDD.
Will NOT work with a 3.5" HDD.

That dock needs wall power because it also accepts 3.5" drives.
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dahermit said:
I have a Sabrent dock that I have used for a few years to clone and backup my computer hard drives. Recently, I upgraded all four desktop computers to internal SSD's. I used a USB to SATA cable to run the clones onto the SSD's. This begs the question: Is there any reason (without me actually trying it), that I cannot use those cables to clone/backup my SSD's to HD's using those USB to SATA cables I used on the SSD's making my Sabrent dock obsolete?
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This is a huge what????? So hard to follow what you are trying to say here....
 
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Not for a permanent connection... just to do backups/disk image/clones on those salvaged hard drives. I am used to using the Sabrent dock to make clones on internal hard drives (albeit outside the chassis), but it seems that I could just use the single USB to SATA cable to do the same thing. However, running a clone (to a hard drive does take some time.
 
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However, I have been thinking about it. The Sabrent dock was designed for hard drives with spinning platters whereas the USB to SATA conversion cables seem to be made for use with SSD's. The difference I am concerned about is the dock has two cables attached to it. One USB connector and one power cord that terminates with a transformer that plugs into a power outlet. Logically, the SSD drive does not need much power, whereas the hard drive drive logically rquires way more power than a SSD.

Therefore, I would be helpful if someone who actually tried cloning/imaging/backing up a hard drive (not SSD) using one of those cables can tell us how it went.
 
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dahermit said:
However, I have been thinking about it. The Sabrent dock was designed for hard drives with spinning platers whereas the USB to SATA conversion cables seem to be made for use with SSD's. The difference I am concerned about is the dock has two cables attached to it. One USB connector and one power cord that terminates with a transformer that plugs into a power outlet. Logically, the SSD drive does not need much power, whereas the hard drive drive logically rquires way more power than a SSD.

Therefore, I would be helpful if someone who actually tried cloning/imaging/backing up a hard drive (not SSD) using one of those cables can tell us how it went.
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SATA is SATA. HDD or SSD.

One cable for power, one for data.

Can you show us a pic of this cable?
 
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Yep, you anticipated the real limiting factor here - power! The cable you refer to is for use with USB 3.2 Gen1 sockets and thus can supply to the connected SSD 5 VDC power up to 0.9 A. That is sufficicent for most SSD's, and for small "laptop hard drives" designed specifically for lower power use, as USAFRet says. The USB socket can NOT provide enough power for any standard desktop-size HDD unit. That is why the Sabrent case includes its own "wall wart" power supply system for use with those standard HDD's.
 
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