"We’ve seen our share of hard drive docks and even a few from Vantec, but this time they have something a little different. The NexStar HDD Duplicator also does as its name implies, it can duplicate drives on a sector-by-sector basis. The beautiful part is that it can do it independently, without the need of being connected to a host PC. Therefore, no software is needed and it doesn’t really care what data or OS is on the drive. This makes for a very flexible tool which may appeal more to the techie crowd than the average user since not everyone has the need for drive duplication.
For $63.09 shipped, the dock carries a little more of a price premium than that of a normal dual drive dock but it’s meager given the extra functionality and what we’d expect to pay. It supports both 3.5″ and 2.5″ drives easily as long as they are the SATA I, II or II variety."
