| Author | Message | ||
     john athan Username: jathan Registered: N/A |
Is it faster to create a disk image (using File-> Create disk Image) or clone a disk (Tools-> Disk Tools->Clone Disk using simultaneous i/O enabled)? I would like to make an exact block by block duplicate of a drive. The source and destination drives are seperate attached externally to a PC running X-ways. My interest is to have the duplication complete in the shortest time possible. | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann Username: admin Registered: 1-2001 |
That depends on the media types, the imaging options, how much Windows helps with caching etc., I think. It only takes 2 minutes to find out for yourself (much less than waiting for a reply here in the forum) and precisely for the specific configuration and situation you have (that I cannot recreate here) if you simply start both processes and compare the data transfer rate that WinHex displays in the small progress indicator window. Press Esc or click the x in the upper right corner of that window to abort when that number has stabilized. | ||
| john athan Username: jathan Registered: N/A |
I just thought that there might be an inherent differnce in the two processes. Where one is typically faster then the other. |