Which Bay is for the Source Hard Drive and Which drive is for the Target Hard Drive? Also how is the speed of the device on duplicating?
814108
The rear bay and/or "highest-numbered bay" (#2 on the 2-bay unit, and #4 on the 4-bay unit) is normally the SOURCE (the one you copy "from"). The lower-numbered bays are usually the TARGET (Destination) drive bays. Read the writing on the devices, it is small, but it does list which is which. Double-check before using, because models change from time to time! Copy speed is acceptable, as far as I can tell. 500 GB drive, mostly-full, copied in less than 4 hours - I cannot give specifics, because it was finished when I came back 4 hours later.
814109
Check the pictures; I posted one that indicates Source and Target locations. Speed varies widely with the drives. Cloning 60gb SSD drives took less than 10 mins. Cloning 500GB Western Digital 3.5" hard drives takes 30-40 mins. Please note that it doesn't take any shorter/longer based upon the contents of the drive (i.e. An empty HDD will take as long to clone as a full HDD), at least in my experience.
814110
Check the pictures; I posted one that indicates Source and Target locations.Speed varies widely with the drives. Cloning 60gb SSD drives took less than 10 mins. Cloning 500GB Western Digital 3.5" hard drives takes 30-40 mins. Please note that it doesn't take any shorter/longer based upon the contents of the drive (i.e. An empty HDD will take as long to clone as a full HDD), at least in my experience.
814111
1 (front) the target, 2 (back) is the source.I've only copied a handful of drives, so I don't have a very good gauge on speed. I copied an 80GB drive in less than half an hour.
814112
Front slot is target, rear slot is source. Cloning takes anywhere from 20 to 40 minutes, depending on drive size and how much space is being used on the source drive. This thing was worth every penny!
989836
I've read multiple reports that this drive fits in the secondary bay. Ordered one and will post an update if I have any trouble.
424957
I sent mine back and got the Thunder Bay enclosures from OWC, they are much easier to swap out drives, and they are Thunderbolt 2 speed..i now am running 4 of these enclosures and they are awesome!
1619214
it is both clone and enclosure. You have a switch on the back of this unit. Drives should show up as soon as they are mounted (I had a defective unit that worked only for one day)
532978
Hi to the best of my knowledge an experience on a Windows platform it shows as 2 separate drives. On the Mac os it shows as 1 drive.
31544
will I loose all my data that is already on the 4GB, or is this an additional drive? I tried to use the Seagate 1TB external Computer drive, but it wouldn't work.
1576967
Just checked one of mine (using a great tool called "Crystal Disk Info". Great Tool, just choose "Custom install" {not express} and opt out of anything else, it's just bogus ads)So the speed says 5400RPM and it says 8Meg of flash (RAM). The actual internal hard drive is: wd10jmvw-11ajgs1 Look it up for more specs on the drive inside. Enjoy!
1568457
The HDD speed doesn't matter as this product will eventually corrupt the drive.(5400 rpm IIRC)
1801755
You should be fine. The target drive has to be SATA, but the source drive will be read by the controller on the mobo. The supplied cord will not plug into the old drive, so you won't be able to use it to interface the old drive later.
2219455
This unit is only designed to copy 2 duplicate USBs from one master USB. I do not believe it is designed recognize a USB hub to take place of one of the slots to duplicate a USB. I'm attempting it now with 2 gb worth of data ... it has taken 33 minutes and is only 45% finished. It is really bogging down.
1422007
Make sure you read the directions (just a man thing). I don't say this trying to be smart but I found what I thought should be was not like it was designed. Check the size of the drive you are copying to. It has been awhile for me for more detail. Mine worked fine. I made sure I was copying to the same size. I suppose if you go say from a 100 Ggb to a 250 you may not gain more room on the new drive. Likewise, if you are going to a smaller drive it won't work. You can't pour a gallon into a quart it just won't work. Your target drive must be freshly formatted with nothing on it.
1269244
No, this is a clone tool for 2 drives not in use or if you have an internal drive that is not primary. If you have 2 drives and don't want to run software to copy them this is the way to do it. Keep in mind its not instant. I copied a 3tb drive and it took 3.5 hours. It can also be used to create a RAID but I wouldn't use it in production.
728464
It does create a complete clone. I have deleted everything on my HD and then restored the OS and data. I don't believe you can use it as a C drive but, it will format a new drive to look like your old one.
1314121
I did add a second hard drive, but I am no pro. The metal plate blocking the slot is a knock out, so I got pliers and ripped it (gently,) out. I had to go buy a cable (I bought a longer version of the cable that attached the drive to my old computer) and simply installed it in the same way my old drive was installed. I may simply have gotten lucky. I remember an old conversation about making one drive a slave to the other, but I didn't do anything like that, and the drives are both working, so maybe I did get lucky. You are better off talking to a real tech guy, and someone who is 20 years younger than I am.
657837
I have not had any issues with doing this. The system sees the drive the same as if it was not in a bay.
1739702
This laptop has two drive bays. I installed a 500Gb SSD as the primary drive and moved the OE 1Tb drive to the secondary bay for data. Works great.
878036
Fantastic question! Unfortunately, I don't know. I haven't tried. I think that cloning a software encrypted drive should working without any issue at all since the dock doesn't mount the drive and can do a forensic duplication, it should be a slam dunk. It's drives with hardware encryption, support built into the device, that I don't know what to expect from. In that case, I suspect that it would clone the sectors but I don't expect that the data would ever be readable from the destination device. That said, I don't have first hand experience with either config. I'm 99% sure the software encryption clone would work and the data would still be accessible as long as you have access to the decryption key. I wish I had a more certain answer.