What does the device do if it runs into a bad sector either hard drive? Does it have any form of error correction? will it just skip and continue?
2070889
I believe that SATA drives manage bad blocks at the drive level and the duplicator dock doesn't have to worry about that.
2070890
Usually, it just aborts the operation if either drive encounters an unreadable sector.
2070891
Copy fails. Have not successfully completed a clone when a drive has bad sector(s).
2070892
My experience has been that it will copy hard drives that have errors on them exactly as they are. What it won't do is copy drives with EISA partitions on them. Most of the older Dell computers utilized that type of partition and this unit just balks when it gets to that partition. I like the unit and the reporting is better than some of the others but it still leaves you wondering.
2003896
I am not sure. If the hard drive won't boot at all then no, but if it's just like the operating system crashed but the hard drive still works then yes
57957
Nah it only comes on intermittently, when it does it comes up garbage, i eventually got it to work and managed to recover some files off with recovery software but lost most of the stuff that was on it. Tried formatting etc and regardless of which computer its plugged into, it only connects intermittently and corrupts the data.
1386546
I am not a tech guy. But, my experience with this drive is simple: it does not work. It looks like it saved the files but then the files are not there.
101141
Here is a link to a firmware update- Your drive may already have this update but give it a try. http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/Computer/Computer+Drives/BDR-207DBK
1118389
Hard to tell, but if the drive was working fine before putting it in the enclosure, then there's a good chance the enclosure is defective. The quality is pretty bad, unfortunately... Same thing happened to me. I complained and got a replacement. Any chance you can put your drive in a different enclosure, to test it?
174896
It has the same mechanical components as a "standard" hard drive, so skipping is a possibility. I wouldn't recommend dropping your laptop or jostling it around of course, but I would think that with the built-in SSD caching feature that skippage would be minimal, if not unnoticable.
1384700
Hi, sorry to hear about that. I used mine just to copy a HDD once and it worked fine, I haven't used after that.
27160
OMG, NO! We had one fail without notice and it was a major problem. We thought the dual drive on ours would be a safe backup system, but the entire drive failed. A service company worked on it and we were fortunate to retrieve most of the data, but it was a very close call and expensive. Now we have TWO separate backup drives on all systems.
463381
It did not do that for me. It tried to repair my system, but it didn't work, though it may not have been the disk's fault. I finally figured out the hard drive itself was failing and had to be replaced.
513231
It depends on the device you have. What device are you using with this drive?
1272880
I just talked to the Technical Support at Time Warner and the person told me that the problem is not with the box, but with the softward, Mystro that they are switching all their customers to. He said that they are aware of the problem and are trying to fix the software. Is this just pure BS? Shold I keep the external drive in case they fix the problem - in a few weeks, he says!?
44059
I would scan the HDD for errors right after powering on. If the number of errors are high then I would return. I would then check the keyboard for sticking keys, if found then return. Then I would copy the HDD to a SSD and then pull and replace the HDD with the SSD. Expect product quality to be very low.
2010602
I suggest you run disk check on your drive. See if there are any bad sectors and lock them out. It sounds like the drive may be freezing. I'd look at returning the drive.
1577966
Bad sectors on drive is main problem...if its a used drive this is common new drives have to be partioned
1200825
I've been using this drive for months and have had no issues with corrupt data. How can you know the data is corrupt?
2232316
Don't know, mine failed after 90 days. Not sure 3rd-party units are ready for prime time; OE units in laptops, etc. seem to be OK. If data is critical, stick to proven tech: mechanical HDs. Sometimes older is better.