[0.46 lb] This dock is great for a motion designer. I am able to work off one and back up to the other. Backup time is extremely fast thanks to the thunderbolt connection.

[0.46 lb] Was a bit skeptical w/ HP brand when I bought it. But surprisingly, the HP TB dock has been working for over 15 months in a customized travel case that I can take anywhere (hotel, coffee shops, production van, etc). So far it can handle the rough abuse on the road and air travel, extreme operating temperatures from 20 deg  to 95 deg F. Thats the way its on location.  I can use any 3.5 SATA hdds (3-14 Tb). Performance is about 10 Gb/s (1,250 MB/s. Plenty of bandwidth for a typical Seagate Barracuda Pro single SATA drive that caps off at around 250 MB/s with no RAID.  Fairly decent read and write speed. I do not like to buy expensive G-Raid hdds. Theyre nice but just cost too much when youre shooting massive amount of data. And last time I checked in the airport, had to pay for overweight fees because G-Raid drives were so heavy. I average about 8-12 Tb per day of raw footage data. If data i/o is beyond 20 Tb per day, this may be a big bottle neck unless you RAID the 2 drives via software. Bare Seagate Barracuda Pro 14 Tb hdds make more economical sense for massive data in the long run. Plus if you have lots of older 3-6 Tb bare hdds, they can be put to good use w/ this dock.  Dont mind about no power on switch or inability to daily chain to another TB2 port. Mac Mini 2018 has 4 USB-C ports. So not a big concern.  Thunderbolt seems to be much faster than USB3 when high amount of data is transferred at a time. Once the Mac Mini or MBPro is on, I know working because of the bright blue LEDs. Fits nicely in a Pelican case for easy transport. Can be hard configured for Mac Mini 2014, 2018 or any Mac Book Pro 2014 or later models. Havent have any drive disconnection issues since day 1 of using this. Very stable and reliable. Good price, performance and usefulness. Dont see why it will not be useful in any high data raw camera workflow. Will get 1-2 more of these later on for disk replication and data migration.

[16x 3.5"] I am a photographer and videographer and I work with a lot of hard drives that mount in the dock as needed. It works great. The Thunderbolt connection is super fast. The speed limit is on the disks, it is important to buy faster disks to take advantage of this gear. Other docks I've had suffered random disconnections and that is very dangerous to the integrity of the stored information. With this dock I haven't these problems (rarely). The truth is that I see no negatives.Me dedico a la fotografa y al vdeo y trabajo con un montn de discos duros que monto en este dock segn los voy necesitando. Funciona a la perfeccin. El puerto Thunderbolt es super rpido. La limitacin de velocidad est en los discos, es importante comprar discos rpidos para aprovechar las ventajas de este aparato. Otros docks que he tenido sufran cortes y desconexiones aleatorias y eso es muy peligroso para la integridad de la informacin almacenada. Con este dock apenas he tenido estos problemas (alguna vez aislada). La verdad es que no le veo puntos negativos.

[0.46 lb] I'm suing the Thunderbolt Dock as additional storage space to my existing Thunderbolt Lacie drives, I already had spare hard drives to use in the dock, all daisychained together ensures high speed transfer rates. The RocketStor Thunderbolt Dock was very easy to install & use on my Mac, solid construction that will last. Regarding design faults with this dock, they should have installed a double Thunderbolt port on the unit, for daisychaining devices, & the dock should be supplied with a Thunderbolt cable as standard.

[16x 3.5"] After replacing my Mac G5 with the new Mac Pro I had a couple of internal SATA drives that were full of archived work and active files. The RocketStor RS5212 was the perfect solution. I removed my drives from the old G5 and simply dropped them in the two slots on top of the RocketStor and I was once again up and running. The thunderbolt connection provides very fast transfer rates. One SATA is my Time Machine backup and accomplishes the task perfectly. I recommend this product to anyone who needs fast access and backup to data.

[0.46 lb] This 5212 Toaster indeed is a UNBEATABLE copy machine. I tried to copy 33GB of video from the 8bay highpoint 762 tower to a Samsung 840EVO SSD that installed in 5212 Toaster, the copy task completed in 56seconds. Surprisingly fast huh!

[0.46 lb] It stays on the floor, with a 6TB and an 8TB HD in it. �

I have a small, quiet fan hitting it. �

That dropped the operating temperature of these two drives from 121 F. to 84 F.

I vacuum it or blow it out periodically. � Simple!

[1x 2.5" or 3.5"] Works as described. Great alternative to a traditional hard drive enclosure. I have many bare hard drives all formatted in raid with years worth of photo and video backups. This dock makes it easy to pull the drives off the shelf, plug them into the dock and get to work.

[0.46 lb] This dock has far surpassed our expectations, we have used them for the last year and they have performed at a high level, handling our onsite solid state drives through to our 4TB seagate working drives. It has transformed our travel workflow meaning we can take less gear. More recently I used this dock with my laptop on a Red Dragon 6K project and again it performed as I expected a thunderbolt dock should. Excellent. The only downside is the lack of a built in fan for the longer periods of use.

[0.46 lb] Very fast with my iMac 160mb/s write.