FIDECO 20Gbps M.2 nvme sata 2 bay Duplicator offline clone Hard Drive Base

This FIDECO USB 3.2 Gen 2 X 2, 20Gbps, Dual NVMe SATA SSD Enclosure and M.2 Duplicator/Cloning Tool is... AWESOME!!Whether you need to clone a disk directly from your PC or laptop to a new M.2 SSD attached to this device or use it as a standalone direct duplicator via its dual M.2 docking ports, this amazing tool does the job FLAWLESSLY!I cannot RAVE about this product enough to do it justice. I am thoroughly impressed! I used it to upgrade from a 1 Terabyte M.2 SSD to a 4 Terabyte M.2 SSD, and it was as simple as plugging both M.2 drives into the unit itself and literally pressing a button.If cloning in "PC Mode" via the built-in 20Gb per second USB interface, the instructions recommend using the Windows Disk Management Wizard to "Initialize" your new drive before beginning the cloning process.Personally, I used the direct "Offline Cloning Mode" (please see the included video), which required no initialization. I just connected both M.2 SSDs to the designated ports on the FIDECO cloning device, plugged the unit into a standard 110v AC power outlet using the provided 5 volt power adapter, switched on the main power switch located on the rear of the device, pressed and held the "CLONE Button" for five seconds until the 25% light began to flash, and then sat back to WATCH THE MAGIC HAPPEN!The video I created to illustrate this data transfer is a shortened version of the entire process, which actually lasted about ten to fifteen minutes from start to finish. In that short amount of time, the FIDECO Cloning tool moved approximately five-HUNDRED Gigabytes of data from my 1TB M.2 SSD to my brand new 4TB M.2 SSD, and when I installed the newly-cloned 4TB M.2 SSD into my PC, it functioned SUPERBLY! Every BIT of data was perfectly and precisely duplicated, right down to the saved log-in password which enables me to avoid having to enter my password every time I boot or reboot my PC.ONE IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are cloning from a smaller-capacity SSD to a larger-capacity SSD, it will be necessary to use "Windows Disk Management" to either partition the remaining space on the new, larger-capacity SSD with its own new drive letter, or to "MERGE" the space into the rest of the rest of the drive. For example, in my case I cloned a 1TB drive onto a 4TB drive, resulting in my new 4TB drive "appearing" to only have a 1TB capacity. This is because the FIDECO Cloning Tool "mirrors" the source disk perfectly. Think of it like putting a four-inch wide photo into a sixteen-inch wide frame; the blank space is still there, but the 4" photo does not automatically "stretch" to fill it. THIS CONDITION IS UNAVOIDABLE, AND THE FIDECO DEVICE IS WORKING AS INTENDED. As mentioned above, there are two ways to solve this condition. Personally, I prefer to NOT have multiple drive letters assigned to a single SSD, so I chose to "Extend" and "merge" the unused space on the drive into the newly-cloned data that the FIDECO device duplicated on it. PLEASE NOTE that ONLY CONTIGUOUS drive-space can be "extended" and merged using the "Windows Disk Management" tool. This means that any unused section of a drive MUST be directly adjacent to the section with which you wish it to be extended to and merged. If there is any data written to the drive between these two sections (such as "Windows Recovery Data"), those sections cannot be merged without either moving or deleting the data written between them.To resolve this issue, I completed the following steps:WARNING AND DISCLAIMER: Follow these steps AT YOUR OWN RISK! The author of this review assumes NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY for loss or damage resulting from ANY TIPS contained within this review. The tips and advice contained herein are FOR REFERENCE ONLY. Please CONSULT A PROFESSIONAL if you are in any way UNSURE of your ability to successfully perform any of the steps provided in this review.STEP ONE: Create a USB Windows Recovery Drive using a 16GB Removable USB "Thumb" Drive. Perform a web search such as "How to create a Windows Recovery on removable media" to obtain instructions regarding how to complete this process. It's pretty easy, just click-click-click and done.STEP TWO: Once the "Windows Recovery" is safely tucked away on your removable USB drive, it will be safe to delete the recovery partition on your newly cloned main operating system drive. Normally, the process very simply involves right-clicking the offending partition and then selecting "Delete". Unfortunately however, recovery partitions are "protected" and must be deleted using "command-line entries". This process sounds complex, but is actually very simple.Start by opening "Command Prompt (Admin)" by right-clicking the Windows "Start" Button, then complete the following.FIRST, type "Reagentc /disable" (without the quotation marks). This will disable REAGENTC.EXE and allow you to proceed to the next step of the process.SECOND, type "diskpart" (without the quotation marks) and hit the Enter key. This will switch the Command Pro...

Before anything, I just want to say this device has a really strange smell to it, that wasn't pleasant at all but other than that this device does exactly what it has to do, this was very easy to use, the instructions were clear, both m.2's fit perfectly, connectivity is good, I like the design and the speed wasn't so bad it took about 30 minutes to transfer all my games but obviously in the video I sped it up just to show that it works. Like I said this is a must to have it's extremely convenient.One thing I would recommend that should be added to the instructions is when it comes to using the rest of the drive if you're cloning to a bigger m.2 since this only clones the capacity of the original and leaves the rest unallocated is to not resize the new partition or create new one volume but to just right click on the cloned partition and expand the volume.

Simple and sweet and no needed software. The only thing is. Going from 1 to 2 TB it cloned it as 2 1TB drives which is fine by me. Absolutely tons more efficient tho the software that I��ve used before.

Item arrived quickly and in good condition. I cloned a 1TB drive to a 4TB drive and it worked flawlessly. It took about 20 minutes to complete. The controls are simple. Turn on the device, I did not see any lights until I pressed the clone button. 2 white ssd lights and 1 blue 100% light. long press the clone button, about 3 seconds and the 25% light started flashing. 20 minutes later I reinstalled the SSD into the laptop. Took a while for it to boot, had to restart once. All is good.Once the laptop booted up I went to setting and searched for disk management. I chose "create and format hard disk partitions" this opens "Disk Management" you will see a section of one disk that says "Unallocated" choose this block and format it. It will let you choose quick format and set the drive letter. You will probably want to choose something over F: because external drives are usually E: and F:All in all, It's a quick and easy way to clone a M.2 SSD even you C: drive.

Although I purchased a Kingston 1TB NVMe SSD to clone another Kingston 1TB NVMe SSD, the Fideco failed to clone because apparently the two SSD's were slightly different size and the target was slightly smaller. So this makes it harder to successfully purchase a replacement known to work without going to a larger size. Fortunately Kingston is one of the brands that has a free Acronis clone software, so I was able to clone the 1TB system SSD to the target SSD in the Fideco cloner. The Acronis software takes care of SSD size mismatch without throwing away excess space in a direct clone. Acronis supports a free clone version for several different SSD manufacturers.