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    Maintaining a master external hard drive?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by nic., Dec 18, 2010.

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    Hello! :)

    I'm sorry if my topic title is a little confusing but let me explain;

    As of now, i have been maintaining my external drives manually. My problem is, that's a very tedious process as i have multiple hard drives are clones of each other. It's alright when i just dump data into them, but sometimes i'll do major rearrangement to the structure of the data as i see fits. Whenever that happens i'll format all the other drives and copy paste the new structure onto them.

    Which you can guess, is a very time consuming process. I am wondering if there's any program out there that could identify the master external hard drive, and apply changes to any other slave external automatically when i plug them in?

    I am aware of products such as drobo s and so forth, but all my externals are 2.5" hard drives with non-removable enclosure. So i'm looking for a software solution if exist, free will be better :D .

    I do not store my data on my computer's hard drive(a notebook, its my main), and I'm using windows 7 ;) .

    Appreciate every help i can get, even if you're just looking! Thanks :) .
     
    nic., Dec 18, 2010
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