Fast Safe Disk Cloning

lcoughey said:
Yes, this is the same device. I've uploaded some photos to a folder on box

https://app.box.com/s/2pu2eck5lzlgv1vt0dns82epkaclaime

I just tested secure erase and it did not work as I had hoped, so full erase is the best option, for now.
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This is driving me insane.
I cannot find any such option such as 'erase' ... I only see format.
Where the heck is it in the menu system?
I power the unit on and I am looking at 'HDD Goblin 1. Copy' now.
Can you please step me through the menu system to the 'erase' feature ... please :(
 
lcoughey said:
Yes, this is the same device. I've uploaded some photos to a folder on box

https://app.box.com/s/2pu2eck5lzlgv1vt0dns82epkaclaime

I just tested secure erase and it did not work as I had hoped, so full erase is the best option, for now.
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I just had a lengthy on-line chat with StarTech.
http://www.startech.com/HDD/Duplicators/HDD-Duplicator-Docking-Station~SATDUP11
The unit above looks like my SATDUP11IMG but also has the eraser function.

He was suggesting the SATDOCK2REU3 as an inexpensive way to add eraser functionality.
http://www.startech.com/HDD/Duplicators/USB-3-Hard-Drive-Duplicator-Docking-Station~SATDOCK2REU3
 
lcoughey said:
The model on the bottom of my unit is SATDUP11. The full erase works fine on my unit.
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Right.
So we are referring to two different models since mine has 'img' at the end.
II have arranged an exchange with my supplier (I am paying the difference between the units of course).
Thank you for your assistance and patience with this model!
 
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I personally prefer backupper for relatively healthy drives. For unhealthy drives, ddrescue. Just cloned one recently that was starting to fail and used the disk to disk copy with 0 retries. Worked perfect. Client should be happy when picking up tomorrow.
 
~Wendy~ said:
In your opinion, is this appropriate for a forensics client, or would you recommend something with more 'teeth'?
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I have a very similar model to that one and I would not recommend it for forensic use. At work we have Disk Jockey Pro which is a similar style device to the one lcoughley posted, and I know there's a specific "forensics" edition of Disk Jockey Pro. I'm not sure if they're still selling the Disk Jockeys though, because their store is kinda sparse. Maybe on ebay or something.
 
If you are dealing with forensics then the equipment needs to specify that, forensics. Especially if you think it might get into a legal contest. Because, amongst other things, you need to prove that the device is write blocked when accessing storage.
 
~Wendy~ said:
In your opinion, is this appropriate for a forensics client, or would you recommend something with more 'teeth'?
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You need to be able to defend the integrity of the process you used to perform the forensic procedure. How can you, as the consultant, defend the process used? If you ever get pulled into court, they will try to discredit you by questioning every little thing you did. Knowing and being able to defend every product and process you use will get you through that. If you're looking to wipe data in a forensic setting you need to be able to prove the data was erased in a forensically sound manor. Which means you can't just say "the wiping tool said it was". How can you verify that? Like others have said, there are specific tools out there meant for forensic use and there are other tools with forensic versions. Past that, you need to be able to show how you know
 
I'm currently using my startech imager to copy a 2TB clone to a 3TB destination drive at about 143MB/second, which is a very good transfer rate IMHO.

Edit: It seems to be going faster...calculates now at about 156MB/second
 
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lcoughey said:
I'm currently using my startech imager to copy a 2TB clone to a 3TB destination drive at about 143MB/second, which is a very good transfer rate IMHO.

Edit: It seems to be going faster...calculates now at about 156MB/second
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About 9GB a minute, I'd say thats pretty good. How does it handle bad sectors? Based on your previous comment, I'm assuming it doesn't provide any kind of log file?
 
doubleohalex said:
About 9GB a minute, I'd say thats pretty good. How does it handle bad sectors? Based on your previous comment, I'm assuming it doesn't provide any kind of log file?
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I have much better equipment to handle failing drives and it would make no sense for me to use this unit for such a drive. But, it does have a menu option that I believe give you the choice on how to handle bad sectors (ie, skip, stop, etc)
 
lcoughey said:
I have much better equipment to handle failing drives and it would make no sense for me to use this unit for such a drive. But, it does have a menu option that I believe give you the choice on how to handle bad sectors (ie, skip, stop, etc)
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I wouldn't use it for failing drives, but that wasn't my question. Simply if it came across a bad sector, how it would handle it. Makes sense it would have options. Thanks for the info.
 
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