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ATI 2016 clonedisk question.

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I have ATI 2016 using conedisk my Vantec HX4 in which I have setup to have both drives in unit to copy contents using clonedisk

One drive has aprox 2.5 TB data other is new 5TB drive.

I assume this is the fasest way to clone the drives keeping both drives in unit.

 

My question is will it matter if I am doing other things on my PC which is a top of the line system from 2 yrs ago which will increase time to copy the disks or will that slow down the coping?

 

 

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Acronis Clone Wizard does not run within Windows so there is no opportunity for you to be doing other things at the same time.

The recommended method of performing a Clone operation is to boot the system from the Acronis bootable Rescue Media on either DVD or USB memory stick.

Also by definition of what a Clone is, you will end up with two identical disk drives in the system when cloning is complete, even down to the disk signature.  If you attempt to boot into Windows with two identical drives / signatures then you will have other problems!

Please see KB document: 56634: Acronis True Image 2016: Cloning Disks which has more details of using the Clone Wizard including a video tutorial.

What's the size of your source drive as well? I don't see why you would want do clone an image to a 5TB drive as that essentially is supposed to be a replica of the original drive and not used for anything else.  Instead, you might want to consider taking a full disk backup and storing the backup image to your 5TB drive.  You can take a backup (instead of a clone), from within Windows and still do things in the background.  The performance and speed of the backup as well as the OS while the backup is happening will really depend upon the type of media being use (spinning drives are always slower, USB vs SATA makes them slower, multiple USB sharing USB resources makes them slower, etc).  If you are doing other things like moving/copying files elsewhere or writing data, or possibly reading data (watching movies, etc) that also limits performance.  It may not be noticeable if you have a nice rig with a decent CPU and plenty of memory to go around, but ultimately, the more resources in use, the more performance hit you will take all around.  To really compare, take a backup and watch your system performance monitor while nothing else is happening.  Then do the same backup while streaming movies, running apps, etc and compare how performance monitor looks again.   

I am copying  2 of my 3TB drives to 2 of my 5TB dirives that just contain files these are not system dives as opposed to do a straight file copy.

Both of drives were nearly full with between  75gb and 200gb free space.

I already copied first drive in 7 to 8 hrs and copy seems fine.

Second drive is about 60% done after 6 hrs stating 2 /12 hrs left  so its going much slower.

Second drive has copied fine now.

I going to let this finish tonight.