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henrikstengaard / hst-imager

Hst Imager is an imaging tool to read and write disk images to and from physical drives
MIT License
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Excellent program, immediately replaced anything else I had - small request for SATA #9

Open f-bone opened 10 months ago

f-bone commented 10 months ago

Hi!

thanks, this is a great piece of software!

I sometimes clone SATA SSDs but to transfer the hybrid GPT system I need to do a sector-by-sector clone. Using USB3 2.5" case that gives a speed of 160-17-mb/s but maybe connecting the destination disk to a SATA port would speed up the cloning procedure. Can SATA drives be detected as destination somehow???

br, george

henrikstengaard commented 10 months ago

Hi George!

Thanks for enjoying Hst Imager.

Currently Hst Imager will only list removable devices attached via USB as a security measure, which would explain why you don't see SATA drives.

Speed of reading or writing depends on USB connection and speed of disk. Fastest will always be connecting the disk directly to IDE, SATA, etc., but it does also require reboot of system to plug and unplug the disk.

I can add an option in the settings to list all drives, so SATA drives would show up both in source when reading and in destination when writing with the added risk of being able to write to your boot/system disks. Would that work for you?

f-bone commented 10 months ago

That would be great!Thank you for your efforts, time and detailed explanation.Looking forward to downloading the newer version.All the best,GeorgeSent from my iPhoneOn 6 Nov 2023, at 14:13, Henrik Nørfjand Stengaard @.***> wrote: Hi George! Thanks for enjoying Hst Imager. Currently Hst Imager will only list removable devices attached via USB as a security measure, which would explain why you don't see SATA drives. Speed of reading or writing depends on USB connection and speed of disk. Fastest will always be connecting the disk directly to IDE, SATA, etc., but it does also require reboot of system to plug and unplug the disk. I can add an option in the settings to list all drives, so SATA drives would show up both in source when reading and in destination when writing with the added risk of being able to write to your boot/system disks. Would that work for you?

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f-bone commented 10 months ago

Just a small note.. something I noticed with SATA disks on one of my lab computers is that a reboot is not required for the computer to recognize the drive.. some programs like AOMEI have a refresh function to load newly connected disks..Sent from my iPhoneOn 6 Nov 2023, at 14:13, Henrik Nørfjand Stengaard @.***> wrote: Hi George! Thanks for enjoying Hst Imager. Currently Hst Imager will only list removable devices attached via USB as a security measure, which would explain why you don't see SATA drives. Speed of reading or writing depends on USB connection and speed of disk. Fastest will always be connecting the disk directly to IDE, SATA, etc., but it does also require reboot of system to plug and unplug the disk. I can add an option in the settings to list all drives, so SATA drives would show up both in source when reading and in destination when writing with the added risk of being able to write to your boot/system disks. Would that work for you?

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