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Newegg has UNITEK Aluminum USB 3.0 to SATA Dual Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station with Offline Clone Function, For 2.5 3.5 Inch HDD SSD SATA I/ II/ III up to 2 x 8TB & UASP on sale for 16.99
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https://www.newegg.com/p/1Z4-0040...2BP4MP1741
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https://www.newegg.com/p/234-005D...2BP5JC5732 for 16.99
https://www.newegg.com/p/1B0-00AF...2BP4SV3298 9.99
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The other risk with these types of devices can be overheating. Years ago I did make the mistake of leaving one to clone overnight and wound up burning out the pcb on the drive
Sorry for the extra long reply, but I have done a bit of data recovery professionally and wanted to share the information in the hope it is useful to someone looking at this deal who intends to use it to clone a failing drive. Most professional data recovery is extremely expensive, (aside from one place I know who charges less than a quarter of what they are worth) and I hope my comment helps someone avoid unnecessary cost due to avoidable damage they may cause.
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For that drive, I connected this up to a computer and used Macrium to clone the drive which went off without a hitch.
If these does make exact copies. Then I did power up the Xbox x with the sad inside without any issues. Another factory reset and reimagine then I can see all my space.
It did take all night though to clone though. The manual method can be faster as long as you have everything in place. It is also more involved and has more steps. So expect about and hour before the drive is ready. Cloning avoids all those manual steps and you just leave it alone until next day. Also you don't need to install additional drivers and tools with your PC.
If it works this good for Xbox it can basically clone nearly anything.
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If these does make exact copies. Then I did power up the Xbox x with the sad inside without any issues. Another factory reset and reimagine then I can see all my space.
It did take all night though to clone though. The manual method can be faster as long as you have everything in place. It is also more involved and has more steps. So expect about and hour before the drive is ready. Cloning avoids all those manual steps and you just leave it alone until next day. Also you don't need to install additional drivers and tools with your PC.
If it works this good for Xbox it can basically clone nearly anything.
That is an awesome idea....wish they had gone with ssd to begin with or make it easier to swap. Tempted.
Now the magic question.. what type of improvement are you seeing .. in the os mostly and navigation
...unless your bread has bad sectors.