--- product_id: 421712234 title: "SABRENT 10-Bay USB-C 10Gbps 3.5in SATA Hard Drive Dock, 200TB (DS-UCTB)" brand: "sabrent" price: "R25708" currency: ZAR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 category: "Sabrent" url: https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/421712234-sabrent-10-bay-usb-c-10gbps-3-5in-sata-hard store_origin: ZA region: South Africa --- # 10Gbps USB-C speed Up to 200TB total capacity 10-bay trayless design SABRENT 10-Bay USB-C 10Gbps 3.5in SATA Hard Drive Dock, 200TB (DS-UCTB) **Brand:** sabrent **Price:** R25708 **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > πŸ”Œ Power your data empire with the ultimate 10-bay USB-C dock! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** SABRENT 10-Bay USB-C 10Gbps 3.5in SATA Hard Drive Dock, 200TB (DS-UCTB) by sabrent - **How much does it cost?** R25708 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.za](https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/421712234-sabrent-10-bay-usb-c-10gbps-3-5in-sata-hard) ## Best For - sabrent enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted sabrent brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Robust Aluminum Cooling:** Premium aluminum chassis with dual 120mm fans keeps your drives cool and reliable under heavy workloads. - β€’ **Massive 10-Bay Expansion:** Connect and hot-swap up to 10 independent 3.5" SATA drivesβ€”no RAID hassle, just pure scalable storage freedom. - β€’ **Blazing Fast USB 3.2 Gen 2:** Experience ultra-responsive 10Gbps transfers for seamless handling of massive photo, video, and backup libraries. - β€’ **Trayless Hot-Swap Convenience:** Slide drives in and out effortlessly with individual power switches and status LEDs for precise control and security. - β€’ **Flexible & Future-Proof Storage:** Supports mixed drive capacities up to 20TB each, letting you grow your storage up to a staggering 200TB as your data demands soar. ## Overview The SABRENT 10-Bay USB-C Hard Drive Dock (DS-UCTB) is a professional-grade direct-attached storage solution that supports up to ten 3.5" SATA HDDs with a combined capacity of 200TB. Featuring trayless hot-swap bays, individual drive power controls, and a robust aluminum enclosure with dual cooling fans, it delivers stable, high-speed 10Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2 connectivity. Ideal for media servers, backups, and IT workflows, it offers flexible, scalable storage without RAID complexity. ## Description desertcart.com: SABRENT 10-Bay USB-C 10Gbps Hard Drive Docking Station, DAS (DS-UCTB) | 3.5" SATA HDD; up to 200TB; trayless hot-swap; aluminum; dual 120mm fans; no RAID; 10 bay hard drive enclosure; jbod : Electronics Review: Perfect External Solution to once Internal 3.5" High-Capacity Performance Hard-Drives - [Overall:] If you are looking to get mechanical drives out of your system but want still use them due to their high-capacity and/or performance (in the case of my WD Black drives), this was the best quality solution. As I stated in my original review in 2020, if anything changes with my experience with this, I'll be sure to update (as long as I'm still alive for it). My experience didn't change 5 years later, my love for the drive just increased. I honestly do not expect any issues going into Year 6 (2026). [Initial/Updated Thoughts after 5 full years:] I bought the Sabrent USB 3.2 5-Bay in Jan 2020 and all bays have been in DAILY use for a full 5 years (Dec 2025). Surprised the enclousure or the drives haven't failed (especially the drives, they are well past their intended lifespan--still...don't forget to backup your drives). I dislike that all the reviews for each bay type is consolidated into one listing, but that's an desertcart problem. When I bought this in 2020, the packaging for the 5-bay stated USB 3.1 GEN 2 but the listing was for USB 3.2, which was confusing because of the USB naming schema provided by the "USB Implementers Forum". At the time, USB 3.1 GEN 2 was renamed to USB 3.2, and provided 10Gbps (which USB 3.2 [GEN 2] is and such was the case under the former name [USB 3.1 GEN 2]). Most SATA III cables are 6 Gbps, so this item was perfect for what I intended to do. Not sure what the packaging says 5 full years later, but I didn't have any major issues to warrant buying a new one (although I did think about the 10-bay several times). [Usage:] In 2020, I upgraded my PC with. I did not want to cable manage SATA cables in a smaller case and didn't want to move/copy everything to the smaller capacity NVME or SSD drives offered at the time. On the PC before it, I had many media files, documents, and games on multiple WD Black HDDs. I wanted a bay that can give me the same performance of having a SATA cable--and 5 years later, it still does so. While I don't play games off it anymore, technology as evolved, it does still store a backlog of games, media, documents, backups, etc. For 5 years, I was able to use the drives exactly how I wanted to and am getting the same performance as SATA III (especially without the internal wiring). I can seamlessly use the drives between PCs with the caveat of making sure the drive lettering is set up consistently with each machine (i.e. to avoid having to reinstall games, rewrite any hard-coding, file path shortcuts, etc.). [Quality:] This 5-bay has solid construction and is very well designed. Cool to the touch and manages power based on drive usage--but is always in the ready. The locks for each bay and the clear labeling was a very easy plug-and-play situation. While it does accumulate dust within the enclosure, a quick blow of an air compressor gets it back into looking "new". After 5 years, the only issue I had with the enclosure was that the board/circuit of the unit started making an indiscernible noise. It's not the fans or the drives, but something else. I honestly could not pinpoint it, but there hasn't been any performance issues at all. It just works. [Additional Thoughts:] 1. If you have more than 5 3.5" HDDs to use but don't want buy more bays? You can hot-swap. 2. The provided USB cables (USB-C to USB-A and USB-C to USB-C) did it's job, but were too short and thus I needed longer cables. Finding USB 3.2 cables for 10 Gbps for over 3ft wasn't the smoothest shopping experience because longer lengths have a bit uncertainty (due to how they are listed), but they are there and have worked to expectations. 3. Pretty much your own external drive solution...just have to have your own drives. :) Review: Solid, stable, and fast. - The Sabrent 10-bay USB enclosure is the single best addition to my PC system in years. It's about the size of a medium-sized desktop tower pc. It is solidly built of metal, and is quite heavy. Drives simply slide in to the ten bays, each of which has its own door and it's own power switch. The controller in the enclosure handles handles access and governs traffic, requiring only a single USB-C connection to your laptop or desktop. The internal power supply is fed by a single standard three-prong grounded AC cable. I've found this to be a solid, reliable, and very fast platform for my various SATA drives, and a huge improvement over the tangled bedlam of external single drives, RAID enclosures, power supplies, extension cables, data cables, hubs, power supplies for hubs etc., etc., that had become a plague to my computer system. I see in some reviews that folks have expressed trouble with the drives disconnecting. My experience had been the exact opposite. I think the disconnection troubles I had in the past were due to running through one or more powered USB hubs just to accommodate all the external drives; I think various firmware-based power timeouts were involved. In this case, I've got the entire stack of ten connected to the OC by a single USB cable, going directly into the computer: no hubs. The drives go to sleep, certainly, but awake immediately upon demand. I've had zero trouble with disconnections. This is a big part of why I've characterized this unit as "solid, stable, and fast." This could not be more welcome. A long time pc user, I kind of moved sideways from desktops to laptops as a primary platform, gaining flexibility, portability, and convenience - in many ways. But. In other ways, the laptop form factor imposes strict limitations, most especially, in storage expansion. As a multi-decade serious photographer and at-home video and music producer, the move from analog to digital has introduced serious, grown-up, storage, archive and preservation issues, not to mention capacity issues. So what began for me as a couple of USB external expansion drives grew over time into a glutted city of USB drives and USB RAID enclosures, accompanied by an increasingly unmanageable tangle of cables, power supplies, and hubs. I was plagued with disconnects, time-outs, and other issues, intermittent, yet never ending. This enclosures has alleviated all of that. The drives simply work, and work well. I broke up the RAID-1 enclosures, and over a period of several weeks, sequentially copied all the material on them onto individual drives installed in this enclosure: a kind of extended bucket brigade process. The drives originated mostly as bare drives I already had in use as RAID pairs. As a pair of RAID drives would become empty and available, I split them up, reformatted them, and moved them into the 10-bay enclosure. What about RAID? Well, Windows does a decent job of handling RAID in software. If you think about it, all RAID is actually in software, just some of that software is installed as firmware in hardware. So far, I haven't rebuilt any of the four RAID-1 groups I had before, opting, for now, to manage mirroring and backup manually across the drives in the enclosure. If and when that becomes too unwieldy, I'll move back to RAID-1 pairs, but software-based, on drives in the enclosure. To sum up moving my drives into this enclosure has been a rigorous but welcome project. It has resulted in fewer duplicate management issues, hugely increased efficiency, and much improved reliability. I am delighted with the Sabrent 10-bay enclosure. ## Features - 10-BAY DIRECT-ATTACHED STORAGE (DAS), NO RAID: Connect up to ten 3.5" SATA hard drives over one USB-C cable. Each drive mounts on its own β€” nothing to build, nothing to rebuild β€” ideal for backups, media servers, and IT workflows. - UP TO 200TB, ONE DRIVE AT A TIME: Ten tray-less bays take 3.5" SATA HDDs up to 20TB each (200TB total). Add drives as you grow and mix capacities freely; a dedicated ASMedia controller runs every bay for stable, independent access. - 10Gbps USB-C SPEED: USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C delivers up to 10Gbps for fast transfers of large photo, video, and backup libraries; backward compatible with USB 3.0/2.0. Full 10Gbps needs a USB 3.2 Gen 2 host port. Includes USB-C-to-C and USB-C-to-A cables. - TRAY-LESS HOT-SWAP WITH PER-DRIVE CONTROL: Slide drives in and out with no trays and no tools. Each bay has its own ON/OFF switch and status LED, plus a master switch, so you power only the drives you need. A locking key and Kensington slot keep drives secure. - ALUMINUM BUILD, DUAL 120mm COOLING: A rigid aluminum enclosure and two 120mm fans move air across all ten drives to hold temperatures under sustained load. Fits 3.5" SATA drives; 2.5" SSD/HDD works with the SABRENT BK-PCBS adapter (sold separately). Drives are not included. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B09TV1XPDD | | Best Sellers Rank | #9 in Hard Drive Docking Stations #56 in Enclosures | | Brand | SABRENT | | Built-In Media | DS-UCTB | | Color | Black | | Compatible Devices | Laptop, Linux, Mac, PC | | Connectivity Technology | USB | | Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 3,274 Reviews | | Data Transfer Rate | 10 gigabits_per_second | | Enclosure Material | Aluminum | | Global Trade Identification Number | 00840025252943 | | Hard Disk Form Factor | 3.5 inches | | Hardware Interface | USB | | Hardware Platform | Windows | | Item Dimensions L x W x H | 13.4"L x 10.5"W x 5.7"H | | Item Type Name | Hard disk docking stations | | Item Weight | 5 kg | | Manufacturer | SABRENT | | Material | Aluminum | | Memory Storage Capacity | 200 TB | | Mfr Part Number | DS-UCTB | | Model Number | DS-UCTB | | Number of Items | 1 | | Product Dimensions | 13.4"L x 10.5"W x 5.7"H | | Supported Devices Quantity | 10 | | UPC | 840025252943 | | Warranty Description | 1 Year limited | ## Product Details - **Brand:** SABRENT - **Color:** Black - **Hardware Interface:** USB - **Hardware Platform:** Windows - **Product Dimensions:** 13.4"L x 10.5"W x 5.7"H ## Images ![SABRENT 10-Bay USB-C 10Gbps 3.5in SATA Hard Drive Dock, 200TB (DS-UCTB) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71OCOTHncxL.jpg) ![SABRENT 10-Bay USB-C 10Gbps 3.5in SATA Hard Drive Dock, 200TB (DS-UCTB) - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71BxLqVR5EL.jpg) ![SABRENT 10-Bay USB-C 10Gbps 3.5in SATA Hard Drive Dock, 200TB (DS-UCTB) - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71BHnhT+ivL.jpg) ![SABRENT 10-Bay USB-C 10Gbps 3.5in SATA Hard Drive Dock, 200TB (DS-UCTB) - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71FFilaO+FL.jpg) ![SABRENT 10-Bay USB-C 10Gbps 3.5in SATA Hard Drive Dock, 200TB (DS-UCTB) - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71rLjFwa7RL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Size** options. ## Questions & Answers **Q: Can i access two hard drives at once with this device or does it switch from one to the other?** A: Yes, you'll be able to access both drives at the same time. You can also use Offline Cloning from 1 drive to another. **Q: Supports hard drives up to 10TB really?, I can't find any specification on the web site** A: Our EC-HD2B will work well with 20TB drives. It has recently been tested and validated to work with native 4K sector drives including ones that are up to 20TB in capacity per bay **Q: would this station allow one drive to handle time machine backups and the other drive separately handle playback of audio files?** A: Yes. Both drives appear as two separate volumes accessible independently. **Q: Can this be used to format a drive or is it just a cloning device?** A: Think of this device as an external hard drive. The difference is you get to plug in internal drives to it and work with them however you desire. If you buy a new, unformatted, unpartitioned HDD (which is standard), you will go to DiskManagement in Windows and initialize the drive for use. I like this device especially for backing up and cloning drives. Acronis True Image 2021 is my current tool of choice for these options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perfect External Solution to once Internal 3.5" High-Capacity Performance Hard-Drives *by P***I on January 4, 2020* [Overall:] If you are looking to get mechanical drives out of your system but want still use them due to their high-capacity and/or performance (in the case of my WD Black drives), this was the best quality solution. As I stated in my original review in 2020, if anything changes with my experience with this, I'll be sure to update (as long as I'm still alive for it). My experience didn't change 5 years later, my love for the drive just increased. I honestly do not expect any issues going into Year 6 (2026). [Initial/Updated Thoughts after 5 full years:] I bought the Sabrent USB 3.2 5-Bay in Jan 2020 and all bays have been in DAILY use for a full 5 years (Dec 2025). Surprised the enclousure or the drives haven't failed (especially the drives, they are well past their intended lifespan--still...don't forget to backup your drives). I dislike that all the reviews for each bay type is consolidated into one listing, but that's an Amazon problem. When I bought this in 2020, the packaging for the 5-bay stated USB 3.1 GEN 2 but the listing was for USB 3.2, which was confusing because of the USB naming schema provided by the "USB Implementers Forum". At the time, USB 3.1 GEN 2 was renamed to USB 3.2, and provided 10Gbps (which USB 3.2 [GEN 2] is and such was the case under the former name [USB 3.1 GEN 2]). Most SATA III cables are 6 Gbps, so this item was perfect for what I intended to do. Not sure what the packaging says 5 full years later, but I didn't have any major issues to warrant buying a new one (although I did think about the 10-bay several times). [Usage:] In 2020, I upgraded my PC with. I did not want to cable manage SATA cables in a smaller case and didn't want to move/copy everything to the smaller capacity NVME or SSD drives offered at the time. On the PC before it, I had many media files, documents, and games on multiple WD Black HDDs. I wanted a bay that can give me the same performance of having a SATA cable--and 5 years later, it still does so. While I don't play games off it anymore, technology as evolved, it does still store a backlog of games, media, documents, backups, etc. For 5 years, I was able to use the drives exactly how I wanted to and am getting the same performance as SATA III (especially without the internal wiring). I can seamlessly use the drives between PCs with the caveat of making sure the drive lettering is set up consistently with each machine (i.e. to avoid having to reinstall games, rewrite any hard-coding, file path shortcuts, etc.). [Quality:] This 5-bay has solid construction and is very well designed. Cool to the touch and manages power based on drive usage--but is always in the ready. The locks for each bay and the clear labeling was a very easy plug-and-play situation. While it does accumulate dust within the enclosure, a quick blow of an air compressor gets it back into looking "new". After 5 years, the only issue I had with the enclosure was that the board/circuit of the unit started making an indiscernible noise. It's not the fans or the drives, but something else. I honestly could not pinpoint it, but there hasn't been any performance issues at all. It just works. [Additional Thoughts:] 1. If you have more than 5 3.5" HDDs to use but don't want buy more bays? You can hot-swap. 2. The provided USB cables (USB-C to USB-A and USB-C to USB-C) did it's job, but were too short and thus I needed longer cables. Finding USB 3.2 cables for 10 Gbps for over 3ft wasn't the smoothest shopping experience because longer lengths have a bit uncertainty (due to how they are listed), but they are there and have worked to expectations. 3. Pretty much your own external drive solution...just have to have your own drives. :) ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Solid, stable, and fast. *by I***Y on April 13, 2024* The Sabrent 10-bay USB enclosure is the single best addition to my PC system in years. It's about the size of a medium-sized desktop tower pc. It is solidly built of metal, and is quite heavy. Drives simply slide in to the ten bays, each of which has its own door and it's own power switch. The controller in the enclosure handles handles access and governs traffic, requiring only a single USB-C connection to your laptop or desktop. The internal power supply is fed by a single standard three-prong grounded AC cable. I've found this to be a solid, reliable, and very fast platform for my various SATA drives, and a huge improvement over the tangled bedlam of external single drives, RAID enclosures, power supplies, extension cables, data cables, hubs, power supplies for hubs etc., etc., that had become a plague to my computer system. I see in some reviews that folks have expressed trouble with the drives disconnecting. My experience had been the exact opposite. I think the disconnection troubles I had in the past were due to running through one or more powered USB hubs just to accommodate all the external drives; I think various firmware-based power timeouts were involved. In this case, I've got the entire stack of ten connected to the OC by a single USB cable, going directly into the computer: no hubs. The drives go to sleep, certainly, but awake immediately upon demand. I've had zero trouble with disconnections. This is a big part of why I've characterized this unit as "solid, stable, and fast." This could not be more welcome. A long time pc user, I kind of moved sideways from desktops to laptops as a primary platform, gaining flexibility, portability, and convenience - in many ways. But. In other ways, the laptop form factor imposes strict limitations, most especially, in storage expansion. As a multi-decade serious photographer and at-home video and music producer, the move from analog to digital has introduced serious, grown-up, storage, archive and preservation issues, not to mention capacity issues. So what began for me as a couple of USB external expansion drives grew over time into a glutted city of USB drives and USB RAID enclosures, accompanied by an increasingly unmanageable tangle of cables, power supplies, and hubs. I was plagued with disconnects, time-outs, and other issues, intermittent, yet never ending. This enclosures has alleviated all of that. The drives simply work, and work well. I broke up the RAID-1 enclosures, and over a period of several weeks, sequentially copied all the material on them onto individual drives installed in this enclosure: a kind of extended bucket brigade process. The drives originated mostly as bare drives I already had in use as RAID pairs. As a pair of RAID drives would become empty and available, I split them up, reformatted them, and moved them into the 10-bay enclosure. What about RAID? Well, Windows does a decent job of handling RAID in software. If you think about it, all RAID is actually in software, just some of that software is installed as firmware in hardware. So far, I haven't rebuilt any of the four RAID-1 groups I had before, opting, for now, to manage mirroring and backup manually across the drives in the enclosure. If and when that becomes too unwieldy, I'll move back to RAID-1 pairs, but software-based, on drives in the enclosure. To sum up moving my drives into this enclosure has been a rigorous but welcome project. It has resulted in fewer duplicate management issues, hugely increased efficiency, and much improved reliability. I am delighted with the Sabrent 10-bay enclosure. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ An excellent enclosure if you don't need RAID *by A***R on January 15, 2020* This is for the 5-bay usb-c version. start with the bad, hence 4 star: 1. it drops connection sometimes when use usb-A to usb-c cable connecting to usb-A 3.0 port on a thinkpad T470. it happens when creating soft-raid and writting to 4 HDDs at the same time. I had to use usb-c to usb-c cable, which runs robustly. 2. sometimes, it will slow down for a while before picking up to full speed now the positive sides, which are quite many 1. when using usb-c to usb-c connection with thinkpad T470, it has been rock solid. I have been running windows storage space in 4 disk parity on it and wrote > 1TB to it, and never had once disconnection 2. HDD install is extremely easy and the door mechanism is strong so that I don't worry HDD falls out if move around. 3. the back circuit board does not block airflow, large opening between HDD and fan. sustained writing at full speed to 4 HDD for half hour, HDD still ~35C. 4. fan is very quiet. similar to one in my synology NAS 5. individual HDD has its own power button, you can shot-swap without worrying short-circuit anything. but it does create initial confusion as I was wondering why nothing happened after I pushed the main switch on the back 6. HDD and fan power down when HDDs are inactive and with computer power down. naturally, it resumes also with computer power-on 7. throughput has been great. can sustain writting to 4 HDD at 150MB/sec 8. usb-c hub allows expansion in future, although I have not tested it yet. 9. the led lights are quite small and do not feel disturbed by it I have looked through, twice, every single 4/5 bay usb-c enclosure; I do feel this is the best one, not one of, if you don't need hardware RAID. update after a week. moved 10TB of data both to it and from it. all done with storage space in parity, meaning 4 HDD writing/reading at the same time. rock solid. did not disconnect or slow down even once. excellent. update after 6 months. 24x7 for the last 6 months. Absolutely no problem. no single disconnect. still quiet as day-one. no complaints. ## Frequently Bought Together - SABRENT 10 Bay 3.5” SATA Hard Drive Tray Less Docking Station (USB 3.2 Type C and Type A) (DS-UCTB) - SABRENT SD Card Reader, High-Speed USB C to Micro SD Card Adapter, USB 3.0 OTG Dual Slots Memory Card Reader & 3.0 OTG – High Speed Micro SD Card Reader for SD, SDHC, SDXC, MMC, T-Flash (CR-BCA2) - SABRENT USB-C Hub 5-in-1 Docking Station, 4K@60Hz HDMI (Requires DP Alt Mode), 100W PD Pass-Through, 3-Port USB 5Gbps Adapter for Laptops, MacBook Pro/Air, and Type-C Devices (HB-TC5P) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - πŸ›’ **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** β€” Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** β€” Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - πŸ’° **No Hidden Fees** β€” All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - πŸ”„ **15-Day Free Returns** β€” Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - πŸ”’ **Secure Payments** β€” Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** β€” Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/421712234-sabrent-10-bay-usb-c-10gbps-3-5in-sata-hard](https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/421712234-sabrent-10-bay-usb-c-10gbps-3-5in-sata-hard) --- *Product available on Desertcart South Africa* *Store origin: ZA* *Last updated: 2026-08-18*