Cloning a Drive with a Dual Bay Drive Docking Station - USB 3.0 Cloning Tool
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- In this video, we setup on Cloning a Drive with a Dual Bay Drive Docking Station - USB 3.0 Cloning Tool. We see how to clone an older drive over to an SSD which breathes new life into an older laptop.
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This video will show you to clone your SSD or clone your hard drive. Its pretty awesome and affordable then also how to use this Dual Bay Drive Docking and Cloner working as a docking station as well to use that older drives as additional storage.
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In this video, we do an unboxing and see how the Sabrent USB 3.0 Dual Bay Drive Docking Cloner EC-DSK2 works. We see how cloning an older drive over to an SSD breathes new life into an older laptop then also how to use this Dual Bay Drive Docking and Cloner works as a docking station as well to use that older drive or rives as additional storage. Its pretty awesome and affordable
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Can I clone a 500 GD HDD laptop drive to a 1 GB SSD and will it still leave the remaining 500GB free on the SSD? Will it use up all 1GB space? thanks
@@D33Lux yes you can, it will only use up what it has, afterwards you can expand it.
How about partitions? What if the new drive is a huge drive with 3 partitions and the old drives are 2 smaller drives and you want data on only 2 of the 3 partitions of the new drive?
@@out42c Since you are cloning at the bit level, it will clone everything, partitions included.
Used this to copy my SSD with windows over to a bigger SSD for space and it worked perfectly. Thank you!
Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.
vid is looking great! I've never seen one of these before, but it looks very useful. Thanks for introducing me to technology I didn't even know existed hahaha. Very thorough video, must watch for people who are looking for a Dual drive docking cloner 👍 love the tididlidi sound you made when it connected to the laptop
hahah thanks. Yeah this is pretty awesome and honestly as techy as I am, I didn't know there were affordable ones, only industrial EXPENSIVE ones and then of course cloning software. I found it while I was looking for a docking station for a drive, I thought that this was perfect, not only can I dock 2 drives, but I could clone if I wanted to.
Thanks for that great video demo. I just ordered one and it should arrive today.Your instructions will place me ahead of the game.
awesome, very happy I could help you my friend. I truly love this device. Let me know how it goes for you
I need to upgrade my 128gb SSD to a 1tb SSD that I just bought. I just purchased the Sabrent yesterday. Can't wait to try. Seems super quick and easy. Thanks for the video.
its not the quickest, since it copies everything, but at least it copies it perfectly. Hope you live it.
@Chucks Grace
What's your opinion on the product!??
I personally love it, but yeah I haven't heard back.from Chuck.
@@ThisBytesForYou Worked great. Was super easy and quick. Would recommend.
Awesome, so very happy everything worked great for you, sorry it took me a while to reply, youtube doesn't deliver all messages. So what sort of use did you have for it?
Looks good, I use a software solution for disk imaging since it let's me retain the original image for later but this device surely simplifies the process. Well done. I actually cloned my replacement M.2 the other day and that was a learning experience as well.
thank you my friend. So what do you use to image, I would assume some for of WinPE environment to WIM it up (I forgot the name, but it was called ImageX back in the Windows 7 days). I was in product development for 2 large boutiques, 1 of which later got purchased by the largest OEM. I created the installation media and the oem activation and I worked very closely with the deployment engineer, great friend of mine. I would love to know what method you are using now, I tried to clone my daughters M.2 drive but kept having issues, I could only assume because the controller drivers were not in the WinPE environment, I need to insert them, but since you already have a method, might be better to piggy back off of yours. This Cloner though is AWESOME for SSD and HDD's though, bit level cloning, you can't get much better than that, and you don't even need a PC for it. What I like even more, the real reason I bought it though was the fact that I can just pop in older drivers, like they were thumb drives to extract or copy over data, its just perfect.
@@ThisBytesForYou Samsung SSD Data Migration v.3.1 for my Samsung EVO drives, I also use Acronis True Image
@@itsupport191 ahhh ok, I thought you used console level programs, does magician require Samsung drivers to work?
@@ThisBytesForYou Yes, it does.
@@itsupport191 hmmm, I wonder, maybe I can clone the drive to a samsung drive, then from a samsung drive to the drive I wanted it to go on to, a few extra steps, but an idea ;)
Bought a newer version of the Sabrent dock (the one your link now goes to) and cloned my boot drive. Put the cloned drive in and fired it up. As soon as the Windows logo showed up the pc shut down. Fired it up again and it booted no problem. Definitely worth the money. I will put the original drive in my safe deposit box and then buy another SSD the same size. Once a month I will clone and swap the cloned drive with the one in the safe deposit box.
awesome bud, so very happy I could help you. That is odd that it did that the first time, but happy it worked for you. You may want to give this a try as well, I don't like cloning myself, I prefer a fresh install but everyone has their own preference of course, this might help you too: czcams.com/video/e8omB4pFLlA/video.html
@@ThisBytesForYou if I was starting from a clean install I would clone it once I got everything installed then make backups with Macrium after that. Then if the drive goes bad I have the "fresh install" clone to put in and then restore data from the backups. For now though just cloning works for me.
I completely understand, I always recommend the clean install becuase of how fresh and snappy everything is. But this is a solid backup strategy my friend, good stuff.
My this think cloned my OS SSD 500gb in like 15/20mins That's fantastic!
Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.
Im sold......ordering mine from Amazon now.
it's pretty awesome, that it is such a simple piece of tech but it can be so helpful. thank you so much for checking out my video and commenting it means the world to me. I hope you used the affiliate link in the description and pinned comment, it literally is a few pennies for me, but every bit helps, but still, even if you didn't use the link I thank you so much for stopping by, here is the link btw: geni.us/7dAhkA
This video saved me .. allot of work xD I coudn't find the manual for my disc cloner (different model) but this looked the same and the manual was same (Fujitech Disc cloner)
Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.
Keep it up buddy great work helped me a lot ❤
Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.
Hi, i like so much see your videos, i have a question, what the name of program you use to test the discks in this video? tanks
thanks bud, this one is a bit embarrassing, since then I have gone through 3 camera, 2 microphones and 3 different sets of lighting, so my videos are much better quality now, actually I will be working on a follow up to this video. The video you are referring to is BootRacer, you can find it here, it is a great piece of software: www.greatis.com/bootracer/
Very much appreciate this video. The cloning worked great. Took about an hour to clone from a 500Gb HDD to a 1Tb SSD for my C: drive. Only issue I'm having, atm, is that the EXTEND VOLUME option isn't available and I'm not tech savvy enough to figure out how to resolve that.
Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you enjoyed the video and that it helped you. Thanks as well for liking and subbing, I truly appreciate it and thank you. As for the partition, you can use a partition manager to expand it, I show you how in this video czcams.com/video/4BtdMcqwaFg/video.html, I hope it helps
@@ThisBytesForYou That "freeware" doesn't allow for allocation. Have to pay $49.95. Thnx, tho.
give this one a try, if you see, that "freeware" was free when I made it in the video, I dont control their pricing structure, this is a different one: www.easeus.com/partition-manager/epm-free.html
@@ThisBytesForYou Oh, no I wasn't referring to you claiming it being free. You even stated that the app charges at times. No, the app site had "freeware" and the priced option. I will try this new helpful info. Thank you, again, sir o7
always a pleasure my friend, happy I could help, let me know if it works out for you.@@mikeallenma78
Thank you for this video. I bought the dock to clone mine also but i was kinda worried if it will boot or not. It sure did apparently! This was very helpful🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.
The pleasure is mine 👍🏻👍🏻 hope you have a great day sir.
@@TheDominodoom thanks my friend, you too.
Hi there and thanks for the video... what is the app you use to time the startup time?
anytime bud, the program is called bootracer, you can find it here, I liked it so much I bought it: www.greatis.com/bootracer/index.html
Thank you, very helpful.
always a pleasure my friend, so very happy I could help you.
I’m using this to offline cloning old 1tb HDD to new 2tb SSD. It’s been blinking at 25% for three hours. What happens if the process is stopped/interrupted? Will source data be lost? Or new SSD damaged? Or, can I have a redo without any issues?
Source should always be fine, the target may need to be reclone but realize, if the source or the destination drives have issues, this will happen as well. For example, if the source drive has bad sectors, it will have issues.
Hi,
Nice video. Would like ask some questions:
1) What is the maximum file copying speed in MB/s between two HDD 3,5'' 5400 rpm mounted in this docking station that is connected to the PC via USB (not offline mode without PC)?
2) Is the copying speed described in previous point depends on USB type connection to PC - USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 (files are not being copied to the PC, but only between HDDs mounted in docking station). So, if I connect the station to the PC via USB 2.0, will the copying speed between two HDDs will be the same as if I connect the station via USB 3.0?
Thanks
Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. You are limited there at 75MBps, sadly Mechanical drives are slow even at 10,000RPM. Because of that, you are not limited by the USB port. USB 3.0 on its own can transfer at up to 600MBps. USB 2.0 point even would not be the bottleneck there because it can transfer at 60MBps. I hope this helps.
one thing I've found, I followed your steps exactly, the only difference was that the drive I was trying to clone was a Centos Linux drive.. after waiting for the cloning procedure to finish, the target disk was still blank, it didn't copy anything.
If you copied per sector, it should have been good, though I did not have a linux install to test with.
@@ThisBytesForYou all i did was hit the button
@@luckdragon70 did you press and hold it like I showed?
@@luckdragon70 also, pressing and holding the button will take a lot longer now to copy than it did before. Make sure to put the main disk with the data on it in port #1 and the one you want to copy it to on port #2.
yes, it went "through the motions" of cloning, but result was blank, original was still fine
It is not clear when you say “ click here to extend the drive “ exactly where to click. Every time I right click ( the extend volume) tab cannot be selected.
I didn't have the tech I have today for screen recording, can you tell me where I say this?
Would I be correct to say the cloning device makes both devices the same size when completed requiring expanded the new destination drive? Have you tried this device with Acronics TrueImage and if so did the device get recognized when the computer re-booted into non windows for the cloning process? I have a inland ILPD01T-U3 dual/dock. For some reason it is not
recognized by Acronices TrueImapge when it re-boots into the cloning process. I have 2 other similar devices (single bay) that work perfectly with Acronics. Acronics also resizes the destination drive as part of the cloining process. Nice... , the device works in Windows but I have had my best cloning luck with Acronics. thanks for the video.
yes, you are correct and you can repartition them later. I have tried with this device from an internal SSD to an external using Macrium and it worked fine, I will have an updated one soon, but you can check it here: czcams.com/video/e8omB4pFLlA/video.html
@@ThisBytesForYou I have not had much luck with Macrium in the past. So far my best luck has been with Acronics. I like how it also does the partition resize during the process. 100% success rate so far but it would be a good idea to have a backup plan. Thanks
anytime bud, I would love to do acronis, but the only free version is the version that comes with the drives
@@ThisBytesForYou Ha Ha, that's the version I am using. It came with my Crucial MX-500 SSD. I have used it on mechanical drives too.
@@n1kkri I know, I get it, but it would be very difficult for me and would not result in much traffic, the free ones for all do best and make more sense.
Nice video, what software are using for measuring the boot time?
Boot Racer, nice piece of software and thank you so much for your kind words, they mean a ton to me.
Hi. How long will it take to clone for a 1tb drive with a lot of bad sectors to clone? I tried cloning it using a 4 different cloning softwares already but it keeps on failing so I want to try my luck using a cloning dock but I’m still afraid it will fail also and how would I know if the cloning process fails or not? Thank you
Not sure but I would not attempt to clone a disk with errors, cloning will make those errors worse. What kind of data is it your are cloning?
What is the name of the software that you used to test the boot up speed?
Bootracer, you can find it here: www.greatis.com/bootracer/
their is at least now a usb"3.1" version suposovly with a USB speed of 10gbps. I have a source that talks about USB 3.1 having it's defined speed changed from originaly 10gbps to 5(same as 3.0) but the 3.1 dock i'm looking at is listed at 10GBPS so i'm not realy sure why it's listed like that. my best guess is the USB3.1 version was made before USB 3.1 was oficaly changed to mean the same as USB 3.0.
Yup, stay tuned my friend, coming very soon
The drive I cloned with this dock failed. I put the original drive back in and the PC fired right up. Cloned the original drive with the dock again and put the clone in and not even a week later that cloned died. I'm not going to use the dock for that anymore and just keep it for a dock only not for cloning. I cloned the original drive again this time using Macrium Reflect Free and so far so good.
the fact that your drive died a week later has nothing to do with the clone, regardless, this was my first video for cloning, and its a solution that is valuable, and I still use it from time to time for various reasons, and I haven't had a drive die due to it, just plain bad luck, it happens. Regardless of that, I have a video on how to use Macrium too: czcams.com/video/e8omB4pFLlA/video.html
@@ThisBytesForYou Yeah, I'm looking at replacing the PC.
Do I have to do that to the old drive or can I just use the ssd? The hhd is just for extra storage correct?
you don't need to clone, you can just use it as storage, this will help you with the SSD: czcams.com/video/vXpAsf7SJ3M/video.html
Is plugging in the the target disk and source disk a no-brainer? (I'd hate to clone a blank drive and write over the disk with data)
Yup
I bought one of these but I'm having a problem with it. If I slip a standard HDD in it my PC picks it up straight away, but if I put an SSD in it the PC acts like it's not there, even though the light comes on on the sabrent. I thought I might have a faulty SSD so I ordered another one - different manufacturer - same problem. I bought the sabrent so I could clone my exisiting HDD to the SSD, put it in my PC, then install a larger HDD for additional data. Right at the moment I'm dead in the water and have no idea what's going on. All the CZcams clips I keep looking at offer solutions for the SSD installed in the PC - not attached externally to something like the sabrent.
did you check in Disk Management in windows?
@@ThisBytesForYou Yep, but there's nothing there - just my stock HDD. If I could attach a picture here I'd show you. There has to be a glitch somewhere. If the Sabrent unit is faulty why does it show conventional HDDs, but not SSDs? As I said in my first post, I thought I must have received a bad SSD, but what are the odds of receiving two back to back?
Yeah, there's a blue light that comes on at the front of the Sabrent that confirms the connection. My point is, should it show up automatically on My Computer, like a HDD, or does Windows have some kind of hoops that the SSD has to jump through to get it to recognize them? I've still got until the 8th of August to return the Sabrent, I just need to know what's going on to figure out what I'm supposed to do. The one thing that's also weird is that if I take the SSD in and out of the Sabrent the PC knows it because it makes the appropriate 'connection' and 'disconnection' sound every time. So it knows the SSD is being connected - it's just not showing it.
To be fair, that laptop's rubber holder for the HDD is just extra weight in conjuction with an ssd.
yup, sure is
have you tried to clone from Bigger drive to a smaller drive such as from a 1TB HD to a 500 GB SSD if so would you risk corrupting the os?
Have you watched the video?
I purchased this recently and it started, made the computer beep, but would not show contents of the drives. I went into windows disk manager and was able to get the drives to mount via that. Be careful what you do in disk manger.
Yup, as I stated
nice way to add an hd to laptop. you make vista sound bad?
hahha, well Vista is not horrible, it is just a resource hog, 7 did a much better job at allocating all resources much better, than 8 and 10 even better than 7. And yeah, this is the reason I really wanted this, but then the fact that it does cloning outside of being connected to a PC makes it soooooooo much more useful.
@@ThisBytesForYou i had a 500gb hhd when i got the 240gb ssd, thought about using the clone software but too much hassle an just reinstalled win10, Sabrent would be way easier and using hhd adding to a laptop was awesome. funny thing about vista was that i didn't need all the anti-virus/intrusion blocking software that i use with xp, well some didn't work with vista anyway. had a zune desktop that changed color to black from the other colors, vista ran well also because i wasn't trying to run old hardware, think i had a 5600 black cpu that ran 3.2 with no extra power, sp1 and i laughed a people complaining about it.
@@grayhoose for sure, and it's under $30, its amazingly affordable and has a ton of uses... well 2 really, but those 2 are very valuable haha: Check it out on Amazon: geni.us/DGAo
iam working in a company with limited resources
can i use this to colon company ssd to my new ssd to use the system as well as activated windows and Microsoft office?
yes you can use it to clone, as for Office and Windows, as long as the drives its being clone from are activated these will be activated,... its awesome, but it doesn't re-write code, just copies it. By the way, I show you that in this video, you didn't watch it did you?
these are awesome when you have a bunch of old 3.5 HDDs that you need to rip all the pictures off of to one master picture folder. Does it do both IDE and SATA? I also live the fact that there is a standalone clone button. I bought one years ago (1xSATA, 1xSATA/IDE combo slot) that said it had the feature but it was disabled on the model that was sent, and ironically the one other model they sold that said it had the clone feature was not available in USA.
this one only does SATA, surely there are others that do both. Was it a Sabrent that said it had the feature disabled, that's odd?
@@ThisBytesForYou It wasnt a Sabrent , no name "All in one HDD Docking" with a big red button on the front. When you press it, it does nothing. Emailed the seller and he said that button is not clone button (its the only one) and the ad stated 1 touch clone. Stick with the name brands like Sabrent.
@@68pishta68 oh wow, that is horrible, yeah for sure, stick with Sabrent. Great quality stuff at a good price.
@@ThisBytesForYou Yes, I have 4 of their aluminum HDD enclosures. under $12 a piece.
When cloning a smaller SSD to a larger SSD, it seems to only format the new larger SSD at the same size of the original smaller SSD. Thus I now have a wasted 1.6 TB of which I need for expanded space. Do I need to format the new larger SSD first?
no, in this video, I show you how to clone a drive, which you have already done, so you are a little ahead, but now you need to expand it, I talk about software here as well to expand, so this will help you, let me know how it works out for you: czcams.com/video/36IzyuCbK5c/video.html
@@ThisBytesForYou I actually just found Aomei Partition Assistant (free version) and it worked great. My partitions were not in the correct order so I could not use the Windows 10 Disk Manager.
@@danharmuth6077 yup thats what I went over in the video, and it does work great. So happy you got it working well.
@@ThisBytesForYou Thanks for quick replies.
@@danharmuth6077 always trying to help where I can
Suggestion - use a lapel mic.
I did for a period of time, not this video, but my shirt would brush up against it many times, I am now using a Rode mic and it is 1000000 times better, thank you so much for the feedback my friend, I do appreciate it. Every penny I earn on ThisBytesForYou, I use to improve all my equipment and the likes, always improving my friend.
@@ThisBytesForYou Congrats on the upgrade, thumbs up.
@@bobcatt2294 thank you my friend, I do appreciate it, i could not have done it with all the support my community has provided. I hope you join it, I have almost 400 videos, I am sure I have more you would be interested in.
can i use this with a bad hard drive to see if i can recover files from it? and connect it to a desktop pc to view the files, if any, and copy them?
yes, you can definitely try it, I have done it as well.
Disappointed. I'm really glad I watched this first. I was finally ready to pull the trigger on cloning my old 500gb 3.5 HDD to a SSD for space and speed and this just killed all of that. At best I can format my old 2TB 3.5 drive and clone my 500 gig c drive. So I get no speed boost but some space. And I can connect two old 3TB drives with it. Can I access two drives at the same time or not? Also No formatting is necessary then? Even if I cloned a 4TB to a 16TB?
yes you can access 2 drives at the same time, if you clone your drives, you do not need to prepare or format your drives. A 4TB to 10TB will work, this will only work up to a 10TB drive. Since I moved, I can't find this device sadly, but I loved it, so I may have to buy another, you can find the link to it in my description and pinned comment to my Amazon affiliate store.
@@ThisBytesForYouAlready in my cart. Thank you. And I did see the 10TB limit. Not sure why I wasted $ on hard drive enclosures with 2TB limits. I'm just going let this 16TB HDD take a day to format. Also I found a way to clone a HDD to ssd with Samsung migration tool and sata and power connected to my PC. Just hoping everything works out and goes smoothly with this old PC I built in 2011. And to test 3 old dead PC's hdd's to see if I can revive, rebuild or do anything with them.
As for ssd do you know why the purchases of the samsung evo is so much greater than the QVO. It's usually $200 but going for $150 on sale now but I can still save $25 getting the qvo. Don't want to cheap out and regret it later.
@@justhitwick EVO is faster than QVO, QVO is more reliable, both though are very reliable. I have that QVO and the EVO, the EVO for about 2 years and the QVO for a few months and no issues what so ever. Thank you so much for using my link, I used the cloner a few times, and loved it, I moved a month after I bought it, so I couldn't use it much, but I need to buy another, I found it very handy to just drop drives in and pull data from, instead of having to shut down, plug in sata data and power cables, and turn it back on, such a time save. Let me know what you think when you get it, though I am sure you will love it. Thanks again my friend.
@@ThisBytesForYou I just cancelled it then re-ordered from your link. Didn't realize it was there. I was adding 9 pin header extensions, pcie usb 3.0 expansion slots and just stuff to cart to improve this PC while listening and watching. Putting off a new build as long as possible. Thanks again for the info and great video.
Oh wow, thank you so much my friend I do appreciate it so much and didnt mean for you to go through such a bother but that is amazing. Let me know how much you love it when you get it, it's so simple but so handy
Is the USB ports for USB drives? Can these be cloned as well as I have quite a few backups on USB drives
my friend, have you watched the video?
@@ThisBytesForYou of course have i missed something?
Well, there is only 1 USB port on the Device and it's a B port, so that wont work for cloning, watch this video and before you download and install anything, make sure to read the description: czcams.com/video/36IzyuCbK5c/video.html
Can you clone an external enclosed hdd?
if you take the drive out of the enclosure yes, I have done it before.
Would you use the Sabrent to wipe clean the old drive that was replaced, as well?
you could, if you cloned a blank drive
@@ThisBytesForYou What's the best way to delete/format the old drive and maybe use on a different computer later?
The best way to do it take days, writing zeros to the drive and performing a low level format, which takes days as well, 7 passes of that. That is the DoD standard
can it be used to copy a 1 terabyte drive to a 500 gb ssd drive without problems, the reason I ask is because the regular drive is bigger than the target drive in this case.
You must have a similar or higher capacity drive, it will not work in reverse. What maybe I would recommend is to install the 500GB drive, install Windows on to it, then pop in the 1TB drive as a D drive, and then you can copy the files over, programs of course will need to be reinstalled. I don't recommend cloning a drive, as a fresh install of Windows is sooooo much better than cloning. This tool, I would recommend more for dying drives to copy the data and such, but also for people that just would prefer to clone, that don't want to bother reinstalling Windows.
ok thanks, will do that.
Does the hard drive you’re copying to have to be empty?
no, it will overwrite it, JUST MAKE SURE you have the drives in the correct location
Nice! Thanks for the quick reply. Got one made by Startech looks identical for work. Got a guys computer messing up hoping to clone his hdd to a ssd and just pop it in and hope it works like magic! Fingers crossed.
@@dumbdadstech2976 Anytime my friend, Startech is a good company too, old company, reputable as well. Just make sure you read the manual, make sure which is port #1.
Do you know if this will work on a PS4 hard drive?
It should, since it captures everything but I don't know for sure.
What is the diference between EC-DSK 2 and EC-HD2B?
EC-DSK2 is a slightly older version to EC-HD2B. The EC-HD2B being slightly slower. EC-DSK2 is capable of 4 Gbps over USB 3.0, and EC-DSK2 is capable of 5 Gbps transfer speeds. EC-DSK2 is little bit more expensive. Personally, I don't like the look of the EC-HD2B.
Can't clone Mac hard drives right?
I'm having problems cloning a Mac drive
yes, it can clone MAC or PC but I only had a PC to test with. Did you do it the same way I showed you in the video?
Do you think that with some SATA to USB adapters I can clone external drives offline? 🤔
did you happen to watch this video?
@@ThisBytesForYou Yes and I also have the product. But I have some external hard drives that I would like to clone in the same way offline with the Sabrent. And I was wondering if there is a way to do this with SATA adapters that I can connect to the Sabrent Drive Docking Station with my USB external hard drives.
@@SalamanderFangskin ahhh, now I understand your question. So the only way you would be able to do it, offline, would be to remove the drive from the enclosure and insert it in thie enclosure,... warning, not all external drives will allow this, so be careful
@@ThisBytesForYou oh, I understand! Thank you 😊👍
no problem my friend, good luck and let me know how it turns out.
Can I clone a external hd that is plugged in via the computer to a drive that is docked in the machine ?
yes, I did that 2 days ago actually, I cloned an mechanical drive to an SSD, from a laptop to an SSD in this cloner, worked perfectly fine. I used this device along with this software, czcams.com/video/36IzyuCbK5c/video.html, make sure the device you are cloning to is an MBR, it will not work as a GPT (they updated the software after I made this video and its not free as GPT and make sure you read the description of that video to get the right software)
@@ThisBytesForYou a external hd that is plugged into a computer via the usb hub. You clones using the machine ?
@@djxcel23 yes, the hdd was in the laptop, the SSD was in this docking station, then I used the software in the video to clone.
Ok thanks
@@djxcel23 always a pleasure my friend, so realize, I used the machine, this docking station basically as an enclosure for the SSD, to connect it to the laptop through USB, i hope that makes sense?
Q? This method will work on Mac? Just stand by cloning? Thanks
Yup, it should
@@ThisBytesForYou cool thanks
always a pleasure my friend.
So basically just..Power to the unit.. two drives one with information to copy and another blank.. hold the button and poof it's cloned??
Yup, well, and a bit of waiting, pretty awesome huh
Use the link in my description and pinned comment if you could, it would help me a bunch and thank you so much for checking out my video and commenting, it means the world to me.
@@ThisBytesForYou yeah I'm gonna get myself one just to upgrade from my laptops hdd! sounds like a great simple deal!
@@GerbilNoises yeah for real it is, the only downfall I see is that it won't work on m.2 drives, you need an adapter to utilize the m.2 in at least a 2.5in form factor
@@ThisBytesForYou Either way I'd rather pay one price for something that has several uses rather than buy a dock that u have to pay for software just to clone with.. It's a steal in my opinion !
Does the target drive have to be bigger or can it be the same size?
Same size or bigger, NEVER smaller
@@ThisBytesForYou Thank you very much there's dozens of different kinds of these things on new egg but this one looks like the easiest to operate and doesn't require a bigger target drive.
@@knection1986 yeah its pretty awesome, I like it more for the fact that I can just pop in a drive while I am using my computer if I need to access old date, myself i don't like cloning, nothing better than a fresh install of windows. And you are so very welcome my friend, always a pleasure to help where I can.
@@ThisBytesForYou Yes i agree fresh install is better but its more of the case that i rather save money carrying over oem licenses on windows 10 installs instead of purchasing a new windows 10 license 😂
@@knection1986 While I do agree with that, but when you say oem licenses, do you mean you have lets say an hp, dell, etc that has a licenses over to another drive?
Sad drive. Solid state drive drive?
Did I say sad drive somewhere?
Have you tried using this to clone a PS4 or Xbox one hard drive?
I have but you are able to with this, I have another one coming very soon
Giga "bits" per second, NOT Giga "Bytes" per second. 1 Byte = 8 bits.
I know how it works, thought I said bit, sorry if I missed it, hard to catch it all
@@ThisBytesForYou most everyone miss that to :) 1 Byte = 8 bits also 1 Byte = 2 nibbles (4 bits)
@@jcpprojects1198 I knew it, but since I don't use scripts, since I don't want to sound recorded I mess up sometimes, keeps it human I guess, thanks for catching it
can it clone a linux drive?
yes
my drive is an 2,5 IDE drive, I need to use an IDE to SATA adapter to connect to the cloning device. But these adapters are bulky, I don't see how I can do this, any ideas?@@ThisBytesForYou
I tried to clone a 120gb to a 320gb, but the 320gb now only shows 232gb. What gives????
did you watch the entire video, I kinda go over that.
@@ThisBytesForYou I'm gonna keep trying.
@@retrojoe2842 no no, watch the video, I go over your situation though you do bring up something another of my viewers came up with that caught my eye, though his number was 223, not 232. Keep me posted on how it goes for you. Very curious now.
What's the max capacity of the file system you're cloning?
This device always reads 223GB storage on any drive I dock to it and it didnt even clone any of the drives i tested it with. Total piece of crap
the drive will read up to 12TB. Do you have it connected to the wall for power and a USB 3.0 port on your computer? It worked great for me.
@@ThisBytesForYou Yes sir, I did. Tried a 500gb and a 320gb drive and both would read as 223gb and file explorer always claimed there were no files on either drive. also tried cloning two separate instances of Windows 10 both times there was no OS detecting on boot.
@@stoofen-2196 The detecting on boot, could be because the drive was not setup in the boot order in the BIOS. The 223GB though has to come from somewhere, did you attempt to clone a drive that had 223GB of data?
typical. mine will not clone LOL
Why not, what are you doing differently?
@@ThisBytesForYou best guess is my source drive must have bad sectors or something. all good, fresh install and moving everything over
you didn't mention the errors, just that it has errors, I would love to help but a fresh install is ALWAYS the best, I have guides on doing that as well if you need some help, just let me know what version of windows.
Rubbish, keeps disconnecting from my Mac, total junk!
did you connect the cable to power and then to the cloner and the USB 3.0 cable into a USB 3.0 port?
Do you need to format the ssd before you can clone it?
Nope
@@ThisBytesForYou ok thank you!
Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.