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I have one of those at work that looks like a toaster. I've probably used it at least a dozen times in the last 18 months, cloning drives, some other things.
Today I came in with my plan to clone a 128SSD drive to a 256SSD drive in a Dell so that when the user came in, it was all good for him.
So I plugged it into my disk dock, turned on the power and hey, no green light. Fiddling around it's obviously a loose connection but I can't get it to where the power would stay on.
now the lucky part, 2 weeks ago I was looking around online for a similar device that has 2 slots for disks not one, in theory you don't even need a machine to clone you put one in the from drive one in the to drive press clone and go. I read the reviews and they were all bad and someone said why not just buy an external drive enclosure like such and such much better deal.
Being Amazon of course there was a link right down the page to a great deal on one, so I bought one, even though I didn't need it. And of course today the only reason I'm able to clone this drive now is I have that new external drive enclosure.
Pretty surprised at how quickly the disk dock failed and to be honest I won't buy another one. 18 months is not very long to last and it never did a fraction of what i expected, the built in software for it never worked on Win 7 so I always had to use Windows Disk management instead so there was no reason to have anything fancier than the USB disk enclosure that I now have.
Today I came in with my plan to clone a 128SSD drive to a 256SSD drive in a Dell so that when the user came in, it was all good for him.
So I plugged it into my disk dock, turned on the power and hey, no green light. Fiddling around it's obviously a loose connection but I can't get it to where the power would stay on.
now the lucky part, 2 weeks ago I was looking around online for a similar device that has 2 slots for disks not one, in theory you don't even need a machine to clone you put one in the from drive one in the to drive press clone and go. I read the reviews and they were all bad and someone said why not just buy an external drive enclosure like such and such much better deal.
Being Amazon of course there was a link right down the page to a great deal on one, so I bought one, even though I didn't need it. And of course today the only reason I'm able to clone this drive now is I have that new external drive enclosure.
Pretty surprised at how quickly the disk dock failed and to be honest I won't buy another one. 18 months is not very long to last and it never did a fraction of what i expected, the built in software for it never worked on Win 7 so I always had to use Windows Disk management instead so there was no reason to have anything fancier than the USB disk enclosure that I now have.
