To make a long story short, I have narrowed it down to 1 of 2 things.

The docking station I am using is an Inateck FD2002 USB Docking Station.

This morning I plugged in 2 mechanical drives to backup some data and the thing disconnected itself and then reconnected itself 2 times in a 5 min period when copying data over. I had noticed something fishy going on for the past couple of months even with nothing plugged into the DS. The USB disconnect and connect sound would come in for no reason at all. All the power settings in Win10 are set to never sleep including the USB ports. The laptop is an old HP Envy 7 that I purchased back in 2013. I am wondering if the power output of the USB port is being taxed too high with mechanical drives plugged in along with an SSD. I have tried it in multiple ports, both 2.0 and 3.0 with the same results.

Since I plan on purchasing a new Desktop system in a couple of months, rather risk loosing data due to the DS acting strange, I am done sending backup data for now and will retest when I get the new Desktop up and running. I am really beginning to think it is a power draw problem.

I will do 1 more test with a blank mechanical drive. I am going to send some data over the USB connection and watch the Device Manger to see if I can catch any USB drives disconnecting or not.

Not sure what else to look for.

https://www.overclockers.com/inateck-fd2002-dual-bay-docking-station-review/

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