Clone a HDD to Multiple HDD’s
March 27th, 2014
Does anyone know a good program that would clone 1 HDD and then copy it to the other three at the same time? A free program would be better.
Or any ideas on how i can do this?
Regards,
Az
azler replied: I have a 4 way USB3 Caddy
Which one in particular?
This one:
http://uk.startech.com/HDD/Docking/4-Bay-eSATA-USB-to-SATA-Hard-Drive-Docking-Station-for-25-35in-HDD~SATDOCK4U2E
Why?
az
– Acronis True Image
– Norton Ghost
Just create a backup image and you can clone as many hard drives as you like..
I have Acronis and that was my plan.. But you can only do it to one HDD at a time and I wanted something a little more automated that would just sit there and do all 3 at once.
Az
I asked for the model because I wanted to know if it has integrated RAID support,Which it does not,It’s also not USB3 as you claimed
but USB2,USB2 is so slow that there’s no point doing this even if possible,You would have to either clone em to one HDD at a time
or clone to one of em and then use a backup app,I also recommend you use the ESATA interface as it’s much faster,If you have a desktop but no ESATA,Just get an SATA>ESATA bracket,If you wanna keep things fully automated using 4 static HDDs you would have to get a
4 bay enclosure that supports RAID or a NAS.
Sorry I sent you the wrong link:
http://uk.startech.com/HDD/Docking/SuperSpeed-USB-3-to-SATA-Hard-Drive-Docking-Station-for-25-35-HDD~SATDOCKU3S
There is a USB3 Version which I have and a USB3 card.
That one also doesn’t have RAID support,Anyways,While you can’t image to all HDDs at once,You could use command line scripting
with an app that supports it such as Acronis backup & recovery/Image for windows,That way it’d do em one after the other.
It would probably be just as quick to do them the way Roberto has suggested. Just because you have a USB 3.0 card in your puter doesn’t mean you will have the available bandwidth to do a lot of stuff at once anyway, even if your USB 3.0 card is PCIe x4.