USING THE 1:1 HDD CRUISER
There are various functions you can perform using the 1:1 HDD Cruiser, for example performing a duplication of the drive, a secure erasure, checking the duplication, pretesting and even using it is a simple drive bay for connecting to your computer and accessing the drive.
All the functions are performed using the keypad and the LCD menu options.
When you first power on the 1:1 HDD Cruiser it takes a few seconds to initialise and detect the drives.
If the drives are not detected you can also perform a manual rescan from the specific menu option.
DUPLICATING A DRIVE
The main purpose of the 1:1 HDD Cruiser is to duplicate a drive.
Once the source drive and the destination drive are in place and detected, it’s just a case of selecting the Copy Mode option. You can check the size is correct as it will be displayed – in the case of this review I copied a 250GB SATA drive.
You can monitor the status of the copying – in this case it took a little over an hour and a quarter to fully duplicate the drive, and the status message at the end shows the copy successfully completed.
The amount of time it will take to duplicate the drive will depend on a number of factors including the type and ages of the drives, and how much data is on them.
The process is a sector by sector copy of the original disk, which means you can copy any disk, including Windows, Mac, Linux and even Sun OS drives.
The current firmware supports up to 2TB drives and any size drive can be used for the target drive as long as it is of the same size or bigger.
There is also a “fast copy” mode which will only copy the sectors of the hard drive that actually have data on – so if you are duplicating a 1TB drive that only has 500GB of data on you can save a considerable amount of time by selecting this option.
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