Large file transfers lock up drive in USB 3.0 to SATA docking station


  • I purchased a USB 3.0 to SATA External Hard Drive Lay-Flat Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD and have been trying to use it with a 4TB Seagate IronWolf disk on a Windows 11 PC.  The problem that I am having is that it is never able to finish copying a 2TB file to the disk .  At some point the drive becomes unresponsive and the Windows performance monitor shows the activity on the drive at 100% but zero read/write IO.   I've tried this several times on the same 4TB disk and it has failed at a different point each time, between 30% and 75% of the transfer. I've also tried with a different 4TB Seagate IronWolf drive in this enclosure and have had the exact same problem.  Both 4TB disks appear healthy from chkdsk.



  • @William Gorman There should be no compatibility issues outside of rare cases with some shucked drives. It's possible the drive and/or station is overheating.


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