what are the pros and cons of using a dual hard drive docking station?
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I am considering purchasing a dual hard drive docking station from the following link https://www.trendingvip.com/products/dual-hard-drive-docking-station. I am intrigued and curious about it because of its backup and cloning capabilities for both, laptop and desktop hard drives. Given this interest, I am needing any shared thoughts regarding its pros and cons from people who may have used this tool. From its product description, I can see this being a handy tool simply because of its user friendly operation for all people regardless of technical expertise and background.
Any shared input to this question will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
George
I am considering purchasing a dual hard drive docking station from the following link https://www.trendingvip.com/products/dual-hard-drive-docking-station. I am intrigued and curious about it because of its backup and cloning capabilities for both, laptop and desktop hard drives. Given this interest, I am needing any shared thoughts regarding its pros and cons from people who may have used this tool. From its product description, I can see this being a handy tool simply because of its user friendly operation for all people regardless of technical expertise and background.
Any shared input to this question will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
George
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This question is to David. I understand everything you noted with the exception of one important point. When you suggest expanding the drive afterwards, could you elaborate upon that point? Do you mean adding extended partitions to the Target drive following the clone from the Source drive?
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George
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Hello and Good Evening Everyone,
Thank you very much for your shared suggestions and resourceful links. Using the Amazon link given by CompProbSolv, I went ahead and ordered a hard drive dual docking station. My primary interest in this tool is for its cloning capability. While I do keep end user files such text, picture, and multimedia files backed up to an external 1TB WD USB hard drive, I do not have an easy means of cloning my hard drive. The cloning is of interest to me because I am considering upgrading to a larger drive in the near future. Seeing that I have average knowledge and experience with respect to data backup, I believe the HDD dual docking stations will be a great tool when it comes time to cloning my source drive to a blank target drive. There will not be any need for 3rd part special software or hookups to the host computer. That said, I should be able to have everything (OS, drivers, apps, end user files, etc.) just as it was onto the newer and larger HDD without having to be a power user of 3rd party cloning software when using the hard disk drive dual docking station.
Thanks again everyone for your suggestions. As always, your suggestions were helpful.
George
Thank you very much for your shared suggestions and resourceful links. Using the Amazon link given by CompProbSolv, I went ahead and ordered a hard drive dual docking station. My primary interest in this tool is for its cloning capability. While I do keep end user files such text, picture, and multimedia files backed up to an external 1TB WD USB hard drive, I do not have an easy means of cloning my hard drive. The cloning is of interest to me because I am considering upgrading to a larger drive in the near future. Seeing that I have average knowledge and experience with respect to data backup, I believe the HDD dual docking stations will be a great tool when it comes time to cloning my source drive to a blank target drive. There will not be any need for 3rd part special software or hookups to the host computer. That said, I should be able to have everything (OS, drivers, apps, end user files, etc.) just as it was onto the newer and larger HDD without having to be a power user of 3rd party cloning software when using the hard disk drive dual docking station.
Thanks again everyone for your suggestions. As always, your suggestions were helpful.
George
Thanks George and I was happy to help.
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I am enjoying reading everyone's shared input in reply to my question. Upon review, a related follow up question does come to mind. Hypothetically speaking, lets say the Source drive (the one with OS, drivers, apps, end user files, etc.) is 500GB and the Target drive (the one that is blank) is 1TB. Given this scenario, can a clone be carried out here using the tool given within the Amazon link or will the Target drive also need to be 500GB like its Source?
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George