Issues with HDD Dock - looking for a known Linux friendly alternative

OS: Arch Linux Kernel: 4.12.8-1

I've a Nexstar Vantec HDD USB dock it's fairly old now. It's hit and miss regarding recognising hard drives, always has been. Even though it's USB 3 compatible it only seems to work properly on USB 2 and only some of the time. I know it's not my computer becasue I bought a brand new machine this week and the issues remain. I had to plug a hard drive into the front HDD bay to get it to work. After first coming up with all sorts of "buffer ring" errors and the second time detecting the capacity as 0B when plugged into the other bay. The drive itself is a 8TB drive purchased last year that I've used without incident. I took out my /home drive from my old computer and this dock won't often see the drive at all, it doesn't even get added to /dev (2TB WD Green so unlike the 8TB I know it's not a capacity issue). When it did see the 2TB drive, gparted reported the partition was outside the capacity of the disk or some such. I had used the drive the night before inside my old machine without incident so in my mind, the dock is to blame.

My question: Given I now have access to USB3.1 and USB type C can anybody recommend a known Linux compatible HDD USB Dock or other hardware that can alow me to quickly use a hard drive outside my machine? I just want something that will work 100% of the time so I know if a drive is not seen that the drive is at fault and not the hardware.

Thanks.