Drive duplicators that can downsize

[timeshifter]

I might buy one of these. My primary use would be cloning down big drives to smaller ones. You said:

Resize copy works great when going in either direction.

I never would have considered their product because they say "This mode enables copying from a smaller capacity source to larger capacity target drives*. Resize copy supports the following file systems: FAT, FAT 32, NTFS."

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

How is the speed?

Both these appliances, and the USB3 bus...are capable of "up to 6 gigs".
One could argue many motherboards..when doing USB to USB...don't realize that full speed. But mostly your speeds are depending on the health/performance of the source drive....that's the usual limiting factor.

We use a Dell Precision tower with its side off...and a Xeon CPU...for our "bench rig" to clone, when we're not using the Goblin. We have a bunch of bootable CDs with various software but we reach for Acronis 99% of the time...just find it more reliable and faster.

 

[BO Terry]

How is the speed? I usually have a PC handy with USB 3 and an adapter or two and can use Macrium to make a clone from the current spinning drive to an SSD. I could see this device being faster in that I just plug the drives in and push a few buttons. But, what about the overall speed of the full transfer? Does it transfer faster than I could with a Macrium boot disk and a SATA to SATA or USB3 to SATA connection on a decent PC?

@timeshifter, I’ve never done it this way so can’t compare. I’m curious to hear if others have done both to compare. Time varies depending on the slowest drive and the process and the size of the source drive. I’ve seen it finish in 20/30 minutes (both SSD’s) to several hours. I usually get it started and leave it so often just have to guess on the time.