How does this device work when you clone a 500 to a 750 HDD and vise versa? Does it auto expand partitions? Thanks in advance.
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When I duplicated my drives, I didnt use any software. You can duplicate drives without plugging the dock into a computer, instead running it as a stand-alone unit. The larger drive's partition didnt automatically expand, instead it showed the smaller drive's size. I used a free partition manager program to "fix" the partition.
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I use these at work all the time duplicating Windows 7 Enterprise drives. After we we dupe to a larger drive, we just tell Windows 7 to expand the partition.
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that's going to depend on the cloning software used, and the operating system, in windows you can expand partitions once made on a larger drive
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Hi there, replying to you Q above,yes this device can perform all the tasks as mentioned above and my advice is youmust know your Source and Target drives when in use and it's a wonderful state of the art device to have for those indemand for accessing HDD/SSD on their computers etc,etc.i gave this device a 5 star on my customer review and i'll solmenly will recommend this device to my friends thank you Bernard Alfred, amazon shopper¬
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I have an earlier generation version of this and it works with 500 and 750gb drives but not a 2TB drive, so there do seem to be potential capacity issues. The seller should address this in the product specs - it's a glaring omission.
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I use this Seagate Unit as an expansion drive and a back up drive. It has lots of space. But I am not an expert at this. I expected to use it more as an expansion drive...but it works very well as a back up unit.
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It did not work for me. My advice is do not take a chance on it. I downloaded the FREE EaseUS ToDo Backup application and cloned my entire hard drive to a smaller solid state drive as easy as copying files in windows. Then I just plugged the new drive and it started the computer just like the old one. I can't imagine it can be easier than this.
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You are correct. Mine was split into a C and D drive, each with around 72 GB of free space. After you turn your N120 on, you have pop-ups from Samsung come up regarding their "Samsung Recovery Solution" and according to other reviews I've read, it is during this that you are given the opportunity to resize the two hard drives. What I read was that you will find 2 sliding bars which you will use to increase or decrease the two drives. You will have the 2 drives no matter what, your only option is how much "space" to give them. I am not very computer savvy and clicked thru these pop-ups as best as possible with out really unhderstanding them and wound up with 2 drives of 72 GB each. And I'm now told that if I want to change this I have to buy some software program designed to let you resize your drives and that I can no longer change it just with what I already own. This ticked me off to no end as all this "Samsung Recovery Solution" stuff comes up before you can get a look at the instruction/tutorial for the unit which is on the desktop of your unit. I was sorely tempted to say the unit was damaged and send it back for a new one just so I could avoid this now that I knew what to do with those pop-ups. This will pop up when you do the auto start registration of your unit. They really need a better paper, hard copy of the instructions/tutorial regarding the beginning stuff you come across after you turn your unit on. BTW, the above info regarding the sliding scales you use to determine your HD space is all 2nd to me from others in other reviews and from what I assumed when finally reading the tutorial...it is nothing I have seen first hand. I hope it all turns out ok for you, BC
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Partition Wizard is free, and worked fine for me. Once installed it's simply a matter of stretching one partition into the other. Very simple to use.
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It depends on the source drive. Some Dynamically Partitioned drives, such as the ones in a lot of new HPs won't clone properly.
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Ok thanks for the mesg. I don't think I will change the partition. It seems partitioning the drive leads into some errors, esp after storing some files.
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It has been a while since I used this, so I don't remember all of the details. I used it once to go from a smaller SSD to a larger SSD and it worked perfectly (both SSDs were Intel). Then I tried to go from a larger HDD to an SSD (even though there was adequate space), but it didn't work, and the help line told me that the kit was not designed to do that and would not work. So I got a copy of Ghost to do the task.
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I use mine as a manual back up. You connect to your computer and it registers as another drive automatically.
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For direct cloning, I didn't have much success when the destination drive was smaller than the source drive. If the destination is equal or larger, works fantastic! One workaround was to make an image of the source using a 3rd party software, then write the image back on the destination.
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It depends on your utility. Some will create a partition the size of the smaller drive and leave the rest for you to do as you please. Some will expect you to make a partition the size of the source disk before beginning. Still others will operate differently. You need to look at the details/instructions for the cloning utility. By the way, I recommend Acronis products for this kind of task. (After cloning, it's nice to have the option to resize the partition or make multiples, as you prefer.
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No. As a matter of fact, if you buy it new, you will have to partition it just as you would a "normal" HDD. All operations, including your restore function, work as they normally would. The thing to watch with this drive is when you defrag. Only do it once a month or so, because the drive's caching function works in real time. So, if you defrag, it tries to cache everything as it goes, and you lose your speed benefits, at least for a little while.
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I'm in the process of doing this exact upgrade, except up to 480 GB. Using Macrium Reflect Free, I was able to clone the drive, swap it into the Series 9, and the computer is acting perfectly. It worked. The problem is that even though it's a 480 GB drive, windows just shows it as the same size as old one, with 300GB of "unallocated" space that I can't figure out how to make accessible. If you figure it out, please let me know how you did it! My thread is one of the other Q & A threads on this same product.
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I'm running it with a 4 TB drive right now. Works great. I'm running Linux. It all just worked "out of the box" without needing drivers, Disk Manager, patches, or anything like that. You just have to remember to format your drive with "gpt" partition table, because the default ("msdos") partition table maxed out at 2 TB and will no longer work.
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I'm going to take a stab and say the expansion allows you to easily open up the casing and replace the drive with another once the initial hard drive is filled? I've been searching all over and can't figure it out myself.