Automatic Drive Cloning?

[mamamia88]

So I have this thinkpad t440p that I tried to replace the dvd drive with a blu ray drive but, the one I bought wasn't compatable. So decided to catch up with the times and ditch optical or at least get a sata/usb one for ripping my collection.  Anyway I don't really think I need 3 storage devices but, was wondering if I could get 1 m.2 and 1 sata ssd and have all 3 drives continuously cloned in case of ultimate failure or purchase of an identical thinkpad later? 

[Mira Yurizaki]

Are you talking about a data back up, or do you really want to clone three drives somewhere?

 

If it's the former, there's plenty of options you can choose from. I can't really suggest anything because I take a manual approach to things. If it's the latter, just do a system image on the OS drive instead (you can probably set it to do so automatically in Task Scheduler) and do a backup solution for the other storage drives. Cloning a device requires a 1:1 ratio of storage devices, and I'm pretty sure buying three additional drives doesn't sound like a good proposition.

[mamamia88]

4 minutes ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

Are you talking about a data back up, or do you really want to clone three drives somewhere?

 

If it's the former, there's plenty of options you can choose from. I can't really suggest anything because I take a manual approach to things. If it's the latter, just do a system image on the OS drive instead (you can probably set it to do so automatically in Task Scheduler) and do a backup solution for the other storage drives. Cloning a device requires a 1:1 ratio of storage devices, and I'm pretty sure buying three additional drives doesn't sound like a good proposition.

Yeah I was just thinking of buying a identical ssd and then having them mirrored for say if one dies I can then boot off the other like nothing happened