Question : Laptop Sata Hard drive duplicator ? do the exist?

I am looking for a piece of hardware that can duplicate a laptop sata drive , I have found a few devices for normal 3.5 and 2.5 sata drives, but Im scared the connections are different on laptop sata drives, anyone have any ideas? Or know of a product that could do this for me?

heres what I have found

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=bz2&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=hard+drive+duplicator&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=7869530771778694949&ei=npErTPHEHYT7lweg7LG1Aw&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CDQQ8gIwAA#

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=bz2&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=hard+drive+duplicator&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=12953850117430036182&ei=npErTPHEHYT7lweg7LG1Aw&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=image&resnum=3&ved=0CDwQ8gIwAg#

Answer : Laptop Sata Hard drive duplicator ? do the exist?

There are some fairly inexpensive 1:1 drive duplicators on the market now.  

Startech have one,  heres the newegg listing,

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817707185&Tpk=SATDOCK22R

Handles 2.5 and 3.5 drives,  can also be used as a USB drive cradle.

If you want something more custom Addonics have a 1:1 duplicator module than can be put into a multidrive enclosure to do pretty much any configuration you want or used with cables to any SATA drive.

http://www.addonics.com/products/Duplicator/HDUSAS.asp

They sell this module in a number of pre-configured units,

http://www.addonics.com/products/duplicator/hdd_duplicator.asp

I prefer a unit that i can hook up with cables so I don't have to disassemble drive cages so it fits into a slot in a cradle.  Probably not a factor with laptop drives as you have to pull them right out to hook them up anyway.

Keep in mind that no matter what the speed rating of the copier is- it cannot copy faster than the slowest connected drive.

I think software is far more flexible solution but the cost for commercial packages to handle multiple drives and computers adds up fast.