Review: Sharkoon QuickPort Combo for Sata and IDE HDD

Here in the office we are dealing with hard drives nearly ever day. Whether it is getting data off a drive removed from a laptop, checking to see if a drive is working properly to many other reasons. We have historically used an old 3.5" caddy and fiddle with it until it works... Not any more!

We got the Sharkoon QuickPort for £33.37 from Amazon so that whenever we need to carry work out on a hard drive we can just drop the disk in, do our work and it is as simple as that!

The dock supports 2.5" and 3.5" SATA disks and holds both form factors securely in place with a reassuringly solid click. IDE drives are attached using the plug adapters on the front (using the cables that come provided in the box). All in all it covers all bases fantastically well, with no drivers requiring installation, a literal Plug & Play device - although this is not the case when using IDE.

Ludicrously simple to set up, and ticking all the boxes in use, a must buy for anyone who manages multiple disks, and a great solution if you want to use HDs for your backup!