Is it easy to backup between 2 of these? Or do you need to decrypt onto a third drive, and then re-encrypt again?
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Once the drive is open, files are visible. I would just open 2 drives at the same time and move between them.
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It should be no problem at all. Once you enter the password after putting in the flashdrive in a computer, you can backup, copy whatever between two flashdrives or between the flashdrive and computer. It really is a nice product. I purchased three of them and they all work great.
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You can keep your drives as is. There is no hardware RAID so it will read four drives independently.
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I'm not sure. I haven't opened up the casing or tried anything like daisy-chaining. However, you likely could, and if not you can always backup 2 separately. Again, as far as a daisy chain, I don't know.
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Yes,ORICO 6629US3-C could clone ENCRYPTED drives. Please note that Target HDD must be larger than Source HDD when you clone .Thank you!
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The most reliable way software is probably TrueCrypt. It is for free and also open source which is a security plus. Their site has instructions on how to use it for a usb drive.
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Not sure why you would want to do it that way. With mirrored drives you already have drive redundancy. If a drive goes bad, pull it out and put in the new drive. There are better ways to provide for offsite backup than to keep pulling a drive and having the raid rebuild itself.
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Yeah, I fell for it, too. I thought I was getting 2x 4TB drives -- and it is TB, btw...not gb (which is 1000x less). I found it's only 2x 2TB drives. I believe you can change the Raid to 0, though...which will stripe data across both of them and you'll get nearly 4TB of storage. The only downside to this is if one fails, you lose the data on both. Make it more fun then...and add a 2nd one to the network and have them back each other up =)
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absolutely not.....you'll enjoy it....first backup took about 45 minutes..all the rest approx. 12-15 minutes
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I would never argue that a single drive of any type will be reliable for storing important data over a long period of time. If that is your requirement you should consider a RAID 1 or 5 disk array, or at least buy two drives of similar speed and capacity and then use a program like FreeFileSync to keep them synchronized. Alternatively, the drive could be completely or partially mirrored to some type of cloud storage, which will be much slower to access but can still provide backup critical data.
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Yes... Since its not a RAID enclosure, you can copy from one drive to the other from within. You get normal SATA 3G speeds when doing this.
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Yes. I found out just the other day. You need to format the Target Drive before duplication. I did mine, took forever but, No Errors !
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I did exactly this, without problems. The drives weren't even the same, one was 2 years old and full of data and the other one new.
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No add them as you need them. You do need at least 2 or 3 (I don't remember which) for their flavor of RAID to work for data protection. Drives will be reformatted when inserted!
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I'm not sure. Perhaps you can just attach both drives and use windows to copy the files.
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Everything gets automatically encrypted as you write the files/folders to the jump drive. I havent noticed an lag/unusually slow write speeds because of this.
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Hello S. Hernandez, I'm not really a Geek guy but I just searched on Bing and I see you can encrypt a SSD drive however there may be a lose of speed, depending on which software you use. I would think a better solution is to encrypt a partition and go from there. Alternatively why not; just encrypt those files that are sensitive???
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Using 5 drives without redundancy is just asking for problems... I would venture to say that one of those drives is going to fail within a year. I have a 2x 2GB RAID1 system for the past 4 years, and had to re-sync them once. In the last 15 years I've had ~5 drives crash or get corrupted. Never again will I leave valuable data in only one drive.