Looking for cloning docking station

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DownwardAcension

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Hi guys, not sure where to post this, but i'm looking for a docking station that allows me to insert two drives and clone one onto the other without needing a host computer. I've seen one "SYBA USB 3.0 UASP Dual Bay Hard Drive Docking Station" that does this, but I was wondering if anyone had any other suggestions.
 
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One factor I have seen others experience with these units is that, when used as a stand-alone disk cloner, it can only make a clone copy of the SAME SIZE as the original source unit. So if you want to clone your old 1 TB drive to a larger new 2 TB unit, the cloned unit will contain a 1 TB partition which is the exact clone, plus another TB or Unallocated Space.

To beat this problem you need a software cloning tool that runs on your computer and has the feature to allow you to specify the size of the new Partition on the Destination unit. If you use such software, you can still use this dock. You just would not use the stand-alone cloning feature. You would use it as a dock only and let it hold one of the drives involved in the cloning...
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One factor I have seen others experience with these units is that, when used as a stand-alone disk cloner, it can only make a clone copy of the SAME SIZE as the original source unit. So if you want to clone your old 1 TB drive to a larger new 2 TB unit, the cloned unit will contain a 1 TB partition which is the exact clone, plus another TB or Unallocated Space.

To beat this problem you need a software cloning tool that runs on your computer and has the feature to allow you to specify the size of the new Partition on the Destination unit. If you use such software, you can still use this dock. You just would not use the stand-alone cloning feature. You would use it as a dock only and let it hold one of the drives involved in the cloning operation being run by the software on you computer. The free utilities from Seagate (Disk Wizard) and WD (Acronis True Image WD Edition) have this feature, but you have to use the software's menu system to find and use it.

I do NOT know whether this limit is true in the specific cases of the two dock / clone units mentioned in the posts above.
 
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