Systor 1:5 HDD/SSD Hard Drive Duplicator - up to 5.4GB/Min - SYS105HS-DP

It works great, will buy again. Thanks Mark

I am very happy with the disk duplicator. I have used it twice already and the copies are perfect. I took the advice of other reviewers to mark the source and destination drive bays so that I don't mix them up. Systor has great customer service. They told me that I did not need he adapters that I ordered with my disk duplicator before they shipped my duplicator. They are awesome!

Makes quick (bootable) copies of my WIN7,8.1 drives (haven't tried WIN10 yet). Instructions were poor - didn't give any basic info. I had to create a dummy drive and then figure out how it works. The instructions were so bad I asked them for the proper instructions for my unit. Even sent them the S/N. Eventually they emailed me the same inadequate instructions. Lost a weekend.

I liked that I just had to load the 2 1TB drives into their slots ( Top Slot was source ) and also in my case set it to skip bad sectors ( not in the boot or file directory track ). around 4 hours later I took the SSD plugged it in and it booted up..much easier then using copy software and the host computer. It's a bit pricy but my time is worth it.

First some history, this is the third Drive Duplicators I purchased in the last 2 years, the first one died, the second one just stopped working one day. Both of these drives duplicators that died were under $100.00 but I must say they were very fast. Now lets talk about the Systor unit, first the pro's Pro: This unit will safely clone SSD and HDD drives. Since the unit has a PC style power supply and a rear mounted case fan it circulates cool air around the drives as it copies. Drives remain cool and supplied voltages are regulated so your drives are safe. Easy to read back lit control panel that makes duplicating and options easy to select. Cons: First This unit is so VERY VERY slow and only copies about 5GB per minute ( I clocked it about 4.9Gbs per minute on enterprise quality drives). Second, the unit is loud, this is because of the large rear mounted fan which but some might consider this a pro because it keep the drives cool. The sound of the fan gets very old after running for 3 or 4 hours coping a large drive. Large drives will take hours to copy and a firmware bug prevents the percentage copied to blank out after 1 hour. So you have no idea how far along the copy process has completed. Plus, the firmware does properly identify SSD's form HDD's, the menus treat them the same, this I don't consider a big thing. I reported both bugs to the company but based on the response I got back from the company I seriously doubt anything will be done or a firmware update released. Third, the instructions included are for more expensive units with many multiple bays and don't cover this 2 drive unit. The menu's are not the same for the 2 bay unit and they leave it up to you figure out how to properly use it. The CD instruction provided are useless and wrong. This caused some confusion when it comes to erasing drives. I pointed this out to the company and suggested they post correct instructions on their web site. Again, I doubt they will do that either. Forth: The drive bays you slide the drives into are such poor quality and the sata connectors you slide the drives into can easily be damaged if you are not really very careful. Systor use Kingwin Universal combo Mobile Rack For 2.5" or 3.5" SSD/HDD which is really total junk and don't expect them to last for long. These bays are available from many sources and have a high return rate (not surprised). Considering how much I use this unit I plan on swapping these out once the duplicator is out of warranty. Final comment, I initially rated this unit much higher and I decided to downgrade this rating after owning and using it for a period of drive. My biggest gripe is the extremely slow copy rate and the ultra low quality cheesy mobile Sata racks used on the product. The operational bugs in the firmware I have pointed out to the company, so far I have seen no fix date on these problem, I get the impression from email correspondence from them that the problems will not be corrected. Conclusion for the money, Honestly, I would not purchase this same unit again and would look for a faster and higher quality duplicator. Featuring superior hardware, better technical support and a more polished bug free interface with instruction that were actually written for the unit I purchased. I will revisit and update this review if the company actually fixes the issues/bugs.

We use this system to clone a hard drive for backup and security purposes. It works Great and is quite fast. It exceeded our expectations. We also use it to "clean" or totally erase other harddisks which it does securely.

Works perfectly. Great purchase, quick delivery. Thank yo .

The duplicator works well and I have used it many times to copy drives and provide DoD level erasing before discarding old drives. My only complaint so far is that it cannot copy a drive to a smaller drive. I tried copying 160 Gb drives to new 120 Gb SSD drives to improve performance on older computers, and it will not allow it giving an error that the new drive is too small. I contacted their tech support and they did not understand why anyone would want to copy to a smaller drive.