Check Amazon or your local shops for similar devices / prices if you decide to go this route. I don't own this particular model (link below), but seems like the right device for the price (if you want usb 3.1, you'll pay more). I personally like Sabrent and Startech devices as they have been pretty solid for me. Backup for data redundancy/recovery and then try to clone with a hardware device if software isn't cutting it. I've had a lot of good luck with hardware duplicators (like $30 from Amazon), but just like everything else, there is still some risk in possible corruption and some people have reported just that in these forums and others online as well. but will usually still require a 3rd party app or tool to extend the capacity afterwards. Most of the time, these work great for like to like cloning and usually can work when going from smaller drive to a larger drive too. either way, I would still make that backup so the data is still there and available in some type of format.īeyond that, I would too a hardware duplicator in this instance to migrate the drive without the need for a computer or software. As mentioned by Steve, Acronis is really a Windows/Mac application so can't say I'd recommend it entirely for this case either though since EXT4 partitions have limited support. Since you only have one "working" instance of the original drive, I would recommend taking a "backup" of it with whatever tool you can and saving that backup image somewhere safe - just in case. I would do the same as recommended by Steve. You may want to look at using CloneZilla for the Synology EXT4 drive clone in that case as this is intended for use with Linux file systems. If you are considering using the Acronis Rescue Media to do cloning, then the same considerations apply but you can choose to boot the media in Legacy or UEFI mode, assuming your PC supports doing so (using CSM for Legacy). I have never attempted to clone a Synology NAS drive or any Linux EXT4 drive, so do not know whether ATI will attempt to impose similar partition scheme rules on those drives!! Linux does support both GPT and MBR but may object if it finds a scheme it isn't expecting. This is done by Acronis to keep cloning as simple as possible for inexperienced users where the expectation is that the cloned drive will go into the same PC! There is no option to choose the partition scheme in the clone tool! If you attempt to clone a Legacy boot (MBR) drive on a PC booted in UEFI / GPT mode, then clone matches the cloned drive to the PC GPT mode. Touching on cloning Windows drives, the main factor to consider is the BIOS mode that is used by the OS on those drives, and that this must match the BIOS mode used by the system where the clone is being performed! Steve, thanks for the further information. In fact I also attempted to clone an 8GB flash drive with only 4GB used and that took 16 minutes!!! 16 minutes to copy 8GB seems very slow to me, not to mention the 12 hours for the larger drives.Ĭan someone please confirm if Acronis True Image is capable of making an EXACT CLONE of an EX4 4TB drive. I'd have expected the clone to work perfectly as the drives are the same size so no need to alter partitions or anything.Īdditionally the clone took 12 hours, (over 5 minutes per GB?) which is extraordinarily slow given that both source and destination are installed on the PC via SATA. To be clear, the source drive works perfectly but is a little slow due to its 5400rpm spin speed so I'm upgrading to a drive with 7200rpm. I'm totally confused by this as I thought cloning was an EXACT copy of the source drive, therefore all drives and files on the source drive are copied to the destination drive. She suggested I try to source the relevant drivers I need. She went on to say that acronis cloning doesn't always copy drivers and boot information so after cloning, the drive might not work. Needless to say that would have erased the disk which shockingly she didn't seem to know. I contacted the online chat support at Acronis and was told by the tech among other things, to reformat my SOURCE drive as NTFS and try the copy again. Unfortunately, while it seems that the clone of my 4TB drive (3TB used) was successful it didn't clone the boot information so the clone isn't recognisable by the Synology NAS. The file system on my NAS is EX4, which I was told is supported by True Image 2021. I bought True Image 2021 primarily to clone various disks on my many PCs as and when I migrate to larger drives and also to do the same thing on my Synology NAS which runs out of storage from time to time.
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