how do i clone a 2.5 inch external hdd to another 2.5 inch external hdd using a clone box?

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I keep multiple copies external of my music collection on external 2.5 hdds = so I thought I would be clever and just clone one external 2.5 inch drive to another by purchasing a 2.5 drive cloner.

It turns out the one I purchased (as are all the others I have found) is only for bare internal drives.

Does anyone make a male 2.5 sata + power to usb 3 adapter that I could just plug into the female slot inside the cloner?

I've searched and searched to no avail...

Steve Renovo
 
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I'm not entirely clear on your description of your current backup system re your music files.

Is this the process you follow?...
1. You copy the desired files from your internally-connected HDD/SSD to a 2.5" HDD that's installed in a USB external enclosure.
2. However, since you desire multiple copies of those files you currently copy the files again to a different USBEHD.

Is that the current process?
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ArtPog

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I'm not entirely clear on your description of your current backup system re your music files.

Is this the process you follow?...
1. You copy the desired files from your internally-connected HDD/SSD to a 2.5" HDD that's installed in a USB external enclosure.
2. However, since you desire multiple copies of those files you currently copy the files again to a different USBEHD.

Is that the current process?
 
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No I have several (10) 2.5 inch EXTERNAL usb3 drives. Each has to be updated to match the internal drive and since I keep them in various location I just want to be able to clone each one from a "master" 2.5 inch EXTERNAL USB drive w/o tying up my computer. I bought a drive cloner but it is for INTERNAL HDDS -
I guess I am looking for either a male sata + power to USB 3 gender changer or a male sata + power to male sata + power cable as I do have several female sata+ power to mini usb 3 adapters

Perhaps the Rolling Stones are correct - You can't always get what you want.
 
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ArtPog

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Truth to tell I'm not really sure I quite understand the backup process you're undertaking, but let me "throw out" the following for your consideration...

1. From what I can gather from your description of your backup process you are working with ten different USB external enclosures, each one containing a 2.5" HDD (SSD?) and each one of those USB external disks containing different backup data from each other.

2. For some reason you have a need to coordinate the backup data on each of those ten USB external disks with a specific internally-connected HDD that contains the original data.

3. I would assume from this that the original music files are categorized according to the type of music contained on those files, e.g., jazz, folk, classical, etc. So that you desire to maintain both your original files + backups in that categorized fashion. Or perhaps the music files are categorized by era or some other fashion.

4. Although you have stated the number of disks (10) comprising the total backup of the music files you have not indicated the total volume of data involved. Is it reasonable for me to assume the total data is not more than 6 TB? Perhaps considerably less?

5. Assuming that's the case, would it not be practical to utilize a single USB external enclosure containing a 6 TB HDD, multi-partition the external disk so that it contains ten partitions (perhaps of different disk-space capacity) and accomplish the backup process by cloning the contents of each of the ten internal drives to a specified partition on that USBEHD?

6. I do note your present ten USB external devices contain 2.5" HDDs, however I'm assuming for backup purposes the 3.5" HDD (6 TB disk, for example) would be more practical.
 
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