One Button Drive Cloning!

My review and demo of the Inateck RGB SATA to USB 3.0 Hard Drive Docking Station with Offline Clone.
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Timecodes:
0:00 - Opener
0:24 - Intro / Agenda
1:00 - Docking Station Specs and Features
2:00 - Offline Cloning
2:52 - Use as a SATA Dock
3:35 - More Cloning Info / Demo / Limitations
5:44 - Cloning a M.2 SSD
6:49 - Is it a Good Value?
7:34 - Drive Speed Testing
8:12 - Conclusion
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[@ElevatedSystems]

Correction: 1:39 Max drive capacity is 10 terabytes not 10GB, and at 3:14 Max transfer speeds are 5 gigabits per second not 5 Mbps.

[@x3ICEx]

Saying it was 1000 * less speedy than actually, was immediately a no sell for me. Many thanks for the update. It IS fast...

[@josir1994]

@@x3ICEx He did said 6Mbps SATA immediately after, which never existed, so that's quite obvious just a mistake

[@avtips4779]

Another error to clarify at 4:49 where you said megabytes instead of gigabytes. Otherwise this is a very informative video

[@SassyPants34]

I've had a doc like this for like 10 years now. i never used the clone feature but I use cold storage for some files and this is a great tool for that :)

[@rhomis]

Great video! I have had this inateck device for a year, worth the price and worth having. I use it to clone as needed, but I have tons of old Hard Drives that I access, so it is a handy dock too. Also, "ALL BLUE" lights when starting to clone most likely means the destination drive capacity is smaller than the source hard drive. One last thing, when cloning with alternate software, I had an error "Disk Signature Collision". It's rare, but happens when cloning a cloned hard drive with your newest updated cloned hard drive. (I back up my hard drive twice a year)

[@garryconnors8804]

It's awsome how you do the same effort and quality on a $30 dock review that you do on a $2000 computer.

[@bryans8656]

I used to do computer repair and upgrades (since retired) and this would have really come in handy back then.

[@raincadeify]

Great video, packed with clearly delivered information. I did find the music loop to be distracting though. Really, silence is golden. :)

[@jessebraughler8594]

Had a hard drive toaster back in the day that was neat but limited in use-cases. Adding a clone function like this one has is a great way to be more practical, especially if that's a common task you have to do for work. Could see this being a useful workplace tool to mass deploy golden images to new systems before you configure the specifics.

[@FrozenHaxor]

That's not how you deploy images at all. Not for Windows anyway.

[@lsfanai]

Neatly explained and great video

[@infinityexpression5519]

You covered the bad sector thing, very good.

[@1Robertwaterworth]

Great video! I have a question? I just purchased an Orico docking station, that is similar to yours, I was wondering do I need to plug in the Target drive first and initialize and format it before I can clone the C drive data onto it? I am referring to a brand-new HD. I have a 2TB drive as my C drive and I just purchased a 4TB drive. It is still in the box. Both drives are 3.5 Barracuda SATA drives, my C drive is getting full, so I need to clone it over to this new 4TB drive, I am just not sure if I need to run Windows Disk Management first and initialize and format it before you can clone? I assume I do, but wanted to double-check first.

[@PatrickDKing]

I wonder if you could attach this via usb cable to clone your main C drive to the external drive while the computer is running. That would be cool if you could. Samsungs drive clone works very smoothly while your computer is on but sadly you can only clone to a samsung ssd.

[@TigerClaw305]

If you had two of those M.2 nvme to Sata adapters, You would be able to clone one nvme SSD to another nvme SSD, with nvme SSDs becoming more prominent, This would be useful for upgrading to a higher capacity nvme SSD down the line.

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaaa4151]

Can you just use a new hard drive, or does it need a Opp' system like windows installed on it first before it will copy the data from the old H'Drive? thanks

[@jackmcgovern7414]

Does this work for drives that won't mount to a computer? Going to try as a last resort before trying data recovery on a 16TB drive that failed. It still spins, and shows up on a computer, but won't mount. If I have an update, I'll post here!

[@Medj-Head]

this docking device, can you close two drives, that are of identical size ? I have a unit that requires the destination disk to be larger than the source

[@williamcroft7420]

Bad ass video. Well informed.

[@Anankin12]

I just spent 2 days trying to do exactly this. I wish I had seen this video before that 😭

[@bobgail15]

It's so easy to use everybody should have one!

[@BA-oy9uo]

At work we call this "the toaster" great little device

[@Coyotemoon73]

Is there something like this for cloning ssd to m.2 ssd?

[@TacoDaddy-mr8ig]

After cloning the old hard drive to a new ssd , will i need format the new ssd?

[@jbaamm]

I’m using this to offline clone an old 1tb HDD to a 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?

[@user-ig5di9wc6l]

Does this work if your drive wont power up?

[@completelymindfucked]

Why the 10TB limit tho? What's causing that limitation?

[@thesavagemonster2910]

I believe my HDD is dying and I would like to get one of these. When I clone my HDD, everything transfers? That includes Windows and all drivers?

[@KhanflomahInstrumentals]

no video brings up the error lights. I have a blinking blue light, and a faster blinking one. Its been about 12 hours. 1 tb to a 2 tb.

[@JuanFmTech]

This docks are really usefull they are great way to add some external drives to a mini pc for example, i use 2 of them each with 10tb x2, and windows storage spaces to have a 20tb drive for plex server and the other as backup

[@ghost-user559]

Do you raid them?

[@JuanFmTech]

@@ghost-user559 yes sofware raid in windows called storage spaces or in MacOs is Disk sets, so is not dependand on the dock or even pc, just connect them an the os does the rest

[@ghost-user559]

@@JuanFmTech What kind of speeds do you see in Raid o? Or are you mirroring?

[@kennglee]

Is there any kind of device (or software program) that can clone my Raid 1 pair of hard drives to a single non-Raid drive without destroying my data? Or maybe I could just clone each hard drive to a matching SSD pair?

[@PatrickDKing]

Best answer I have found so far is to boot your computer and using windows backup and recovery or a third party software create and image backup. This is the built in feature at least since windows 7 where you can manually or on a schedule image your entire drive with files to another internal or external drive and then restore from those backups. It's called an image because it copies all the windows programs and files installed whereas a clone is a bit for bit copying of an entire drive. Then what you would do is put a fresh install of windows on a new single drive, then when booted use the backup feature of the backup and restore and select the image you made. Windows will then copy the installed software and files but not do another install of windows. It may be possible during a fresh windows 10 install on the new drive to select an external or network drive that has your image and install from that but I've never actually done that. If that all fails the next best thing is what I just had to do. Copy all desktop files and folders, as well as any other folders that contain your documents, saved games, pics, vids, etc. to a separate drive. Then install windows on one drive and copy all those files back to their original locations. The downside to this method is you will have to install all programs you had before and do all the windows updates again. But depending on your motive sometimes it is nice having a fresh install on especially if you used the upgrade method from windows 7 to windows 10. If you subscribe to that microsoft 365 personal or family plan and your files are already default saved to the onedrive folder then you wouldn't have to copy anything, just reinstall windows and sign in with your microsoft account and then all those files will be there. But beware that many programs and games create their own default installation folders to store files like saved games, edited videos, etc. Good luck!

[@kennglee]

@@PatrickDKing thanks Patrick. I like the idea of doing the image backup. I need to put some thought into my plan before proceeding. It shouldn’t be too difficult to save copies of my important files. Great advice. Thanks again.

[@DerekDavis213]

Cloning a 3.5" hard drive, reminds us of year 2000. Using maybe Norton Ghost? 😀

[@onmyworkbench7000]

I have cloned SSD's using one of these and every time I do it the clone runs very SLOW when it's installed into the computer that the source drive came out of or another computer, it runs very slow. The cloning process took 7 HOURS!!! If anyone has any idea at to why and how to fix it please post it here, Thanks.

[@fideco-it]

Hello, do you have any interest in testing FIDECO product😁

[@DirtRoadie]

@ 7.57 "WD SATA M.2 in Sabrent adapter" - 2800 read and 2200 write. That makes no sense, seemingly transcending both SATA AND USB 3.0 (3.2 gen 1) speeds (by a several times their theoretical limit). That sounds like NVME speeds. Might you have been looking at the wrong drive?

[@dave4shmups]

Great video on this product! So, both drives have to be exactly the same size? Because my Dad’s PC has a 2TB mechanical hard drive, and we hardly use any of that space, and I’d like to clone it to a smaller (like, 250GB) to a SATA SSD.

[@ElevatedSystems]

You can't do it with this, but you can do it with software like Clonezilla.

[@dave4shmups]

@@ElevatedSystems OK, thanks! Do you know if any other drive cloning docks, like the Insignia one that was briefly shown in this video, can clone from a larger drive to a smaller one?

[@ElevatedSystems]

@@dave4shmups That was just a dual dock, and I don't know of any that can clone to a smaller target.

[@dave4shmups]

@@ElevatedSystems OK, thanks!

[@ghjong001]

Wait a minute, wasn't Inateck the rival company from 'Office Space'?

[@tonybologna-5045]

DO you have to partition the new drive before cloning?

[@ElevatedSystems]

No

[@JetSter735180]

Transfer speed at 5 Mbps seem very slow. Did you mean to says 5Gbps ?

[@ElevatedSystems]

Yes, I should really just start using charts.

[@staticziao]

Macrium reflect is a decent software to clone with its free no hidden fees used it to clone from my 512gb nvme oem ssd to my 1tb gen 4 nvme SN850

[@m.a.x.i.m.o.4.k.a.]

can it be used for data recoverig?

[@ElevatedSystems]

As long as there isn't to much damage to the drive.

[@stant.728]

Where is the link to this product ?

[@ElevatedSystems]

In the video description.

[@owomushi_vr]

1:38 10gb is not enough can you review one that can do at least a 1tb

[@ElevatedSystems]

Check my pinned comment. it's a 10TB capacity.

[@rBennich]

6:39 that's an M.2 NVME to U.2 NVME adapter. Not a M.2 NVME to SATA adapter. The interfaces looks similar but it's completely different, and not compatible. I'm pretty sure. Edit: After a second look it even says on the page that it's not SATA compatible.

[@steffahn]

1:39 - "up to 10GB in capacity".. that sounds like a slip of tongue?

[@ElevatedSystems]

My bad, 10TB

[@Mr.SharkTooth-zc8rm]

👌

[@JohnSnow-vf8jo]

Now marketed as Alexum with USB - C, instead of USB - 3.

[@bland9876]

Cloning msata drives that one time was kinda annoying.

[@KenJames9911]

1:39 only up to 10 GB? Thats useless...

[@karinaw977]

He made a mistake, it’s 10TB. Look for his pinned comment with the correction.

[@KenJames9911]

@@karinaw977 ok. Thx

[@KNIGHTJUMPS]

All I care about is nvme.

[@Novers]

Just for the love of God don't put them in the wrong way around

[@ElevatedSystems]

The dock won't allow the drives to be installed incorrectly, unless you use a mallet I guess.

[@Novers]

@@ElevatedSystems I meant more cloning the wrong way around

[@ElevatedSystems]

@@Novers Ahhh, Yes, that would ruin your day.