Mario, Notes:

My original post was all about stand-alone cloning. I don't know if I would even attempt to clone a 10TB drive over USB or even by swapping out one of the internal drives with the target drive. How long would that take with Acronis (USB or internal setup)? I do regular file archiving over USB or internal drive swapping but, when I need to, I think hardware cloning a whole drive has a set of advantages that work for me. Partition Magic has a cloning feature but, for system drives, I think it will not clone the OS unless it "transfers" it.

Paj
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