The RocketStor 5411D 1-Bay SATA III Docking Station from HighPoint is a connectivity solution that can provide digital storage for your Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. It holds a single 3.5″ or 2.5″ SATA III Hard Disk Drive (HDD) or Solid State Drive (SSD) with a storage capacity up to 8TB. Additionally, this dock features a built-in card reader that lets you transfer the contents of an SD card to your computer.
This dock features a Gigabit Ethernet port that connects to your network for sharing devices. It can also connect to a computer directly via USB. In addition, three USB 3.0 ports are offered for accessing other peripherals such as a printer, scanner, and more. These ports can also charge up to three USB battery devices at the same time. To provide multimedia for your computer, this dock offers integrated audio ports that support headphones, speakers, and headsets. Included with the docking station are a USB 3.0 cable, software CD, and a power adapter with power cord.
Daija Smitham (verified owner) –
I had three problems: hardware, design, support. The hardware problem was the device dropping power while it was being used and it taking a lot of fiddling to restore power. The design problem is that the device reports its name to your router as the name of the computer connected to its (non-device) USB port. Since the computer is also on the LAN, there is a name conflict. I think the intended use of this device is as a network connection for your computer assuming you don’t have a net card. I wanted to use this as a NAS device where several computers would deposit their backups and once a month I would rotate the disk with one in an offsite safe container. The support issue occurred before the device arrived. I went to the HighPoint website to download and examine user’s manuals. I ran into Trojan warnings at entry to their main web site as well as their support site. I asked ESET, the provider of my security software, whether these were false positives or real problems and was told the warnings were valid. I reported this issue to HighPoint via email but nothing was done in the last ten days or so. I eventually got a user’s manual with the device and found serious problems with ambiguous statements and no use model description. My disappointment was that I could find no other docking device to attach storage to my LAN that would allow drive swapping without disassembly and at a reasonable price point. I was able to run a test without losing power and it was quite good: I transferred an approximately 100GB file from the hard disk of a LAN computer to the dock at around ninety percent speed of our 1000Gb Ethernet.