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Hi all,

 

A few months ago, I got two 3TB WD Red Drives to use as backup drives within my computer.

 

What is the best way I can back up all of my data to BOTH of them so that the drives are clones of each other?

 

Is Windows Backup trustworthy? Or is there something that's a little more transparent.

 

Thanks,

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14 minutes ago, Captain Matt said:

Hi all,

 

A few months ago, I got two 3TB WD Red Drives to use as backup drives within my computer.

 

What is the best way I can back up all of my data to BOTH of them so that the drives are clones of each other?

 

Is Windows Backup trustworthy? Or is there something that's a little more transparent.

 

Thanks,

if it is only files you want to transfer, you may as well just copy it all to both one after the other. if the drive you want to backup is a system drive with partitions and crap that arent as easily transferred, you can use something like clonezilla or acronis to make a "bare-metal" copy of the drive, and then clone it onto your 2 new drives

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