Despite the advent of devices such as solid state drives, HDDs are still the main storage media, especially if their volumes are large. Most often, hard drives are installed inside the system and connected to the system board via eSATA or SATA connectors, however, there are portable drives. It is in such cases that you need a docking station for the HDD.
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Judging by this striking example, external docking stations are very useful devices. They are useful not only to owners of mini-computers. As a rule, a full-sized system unit is not equipped with such a device, even docking stations for SSDs are not always found in them. To remove or connect the hard drive, you have to open the case, which is not particularly convenient. From such minor inconveniences the external "dock" also saves.