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Review on ⚙️ StarTech.com Dual Bay USB 3.0/eSATA Hard Drive Duplicator Dock for 2.5" & 3.5" SATA SSD HDD - UASP (6Gbps) Standalone Docking Station by Chris Perez

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Clone Rollback Rx with all snapshots

I was looking for a way to clone Rollback Rx from one disk to another without losing my snapshots. It worked perfectly. This is a godsend as me and other Rollback Rx users have been trying to clone without snapshots for years. (Drive Cloner Rx 6 is supposed to do this, but I couldn't get this program to work. The only program that worked for me is EaseUS Disk Copy, which is free but doesn't always recognize an external drive.) One caveat, my original and destination disks were identical. So I can't vouch for this working if the disks aren't identical. (I'm cloning two Samsung 850 EVO 250GB.) However, I don't think this will be a problem if you resize both drives to the same size before cloning. Also, placing both drives in the device is much faster than the traditional cloning method where the source drive is in the computer and the target drive is plugged into a port. I've noticed comments from other authors about the difficulty in determining the location for the source drive and destination drive. It is listed on the device, although the font is small. I think the problem is that placing the source in slot 2 (rear) and the target slot 1 (front) seems counterintuitive. However, it makes sense if you understand that the front slot is used by your computer when cloning. This way, the target drive always comes first no matter where the source drive is located. The controls are simple. construction is good.

Pros
  • Absolutely amazing!
Cons
  • So far so good