Aleratec 1:1 HDD Porta Cruiser Hard Disk Drive Duplicator 350108(Black)

• Sector-by-sector standalone hard disk drive cloning
• Dual Disk RAID Controller via USB 2.0 with 4 modes
• Supports 2.5- Inch and 3.5- Inch SATA I/II hard disk drives
• Supports both 2.5- Inch and 3.5- Inch SATA I/II hard disk drives
• Supports IDE hard disk drives with IDE cables (not included)

We use this at work every day, and now it's time for one at home too.

This baby connects directly to any SATA drive on its sides and then copys partitions or partial partitions from drive to drive.

It is absolutely great for cloning and transferring data such as when you swap out a regular drive in a laptop to an SSD.

It will compensate for instance, when the original is , say, a 750GB and you switch to a 120GB SSD with no issues at all.

Worth every penny, great for general backing up from drive to drive too.

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Granted, the price of this unit when compared with other Hard Disk Duplicators is quite tempting. But ... Beware.

It's very easy to use when it works.

But when it fails, the manual is worthless, and Customer Support is almost as bad.

I had numerous hard drives that this unit "Did Not Recognise". Yet these drives were of the same manufacturer, model and size. I contacted Customer Support via e-mail with the problem.

After about a week with no "fix" provided, I mailed Aleratec the failing unit, plus two hard drives. One drive that "worked", the other that "failed". After another couple of weeks, Customer Support sent the unit to the manufactuer.

Over two months later, I still don't have a "fix" for the problem, nor has the manufacturer

or Customer Service returned my duplicator or the two disk drives.

To finish the project I was working on ... I purchased a different duplicator from another manufacturer.