Logicube Omniclone Xi - Manual (Page 7)

Logicube Omniclone Xi ™ User’s Manual 1
1. Introduction to the Logicube Omniclone Xi™
Introduction
Congratulations on your purchase of the Logicube
Omniclone Xi™. You are now the proud owner of a
state-of-the-art IDE/SATA disk cloning device. The
Omniclone Xi™ is designed to be easy enough to
be used by a novice, yet offers many professional
features that are not available anywhere else.
The Logicube Omniclone Xi™ copies the contents
of one hard disk drive to one or more others
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first drive is typically called the Master, while the
subsequent drives are called Targets. It performs
the copy at speeds that are typically 16 to 32 times
faster than they would be on a PC. The Omniclone
Xi™ first analyzes the partitions on the Master, then
acts according to a user set mode. Depending on
the mode, the unit will adjust structures to ensure
the validity of the Targets. This process is called
disk cloning.
This manual covers the following Logicube
products: OCX2i™, OCX5i™ and OCXi™. The
OCX2i™ can clone two target drives, the OCX5i™
can clone 5 target drives and the OCXi™ can clone
ten target drives simultaneously.
What Are Partitions?
Partitions are areas on the drive that define a
storage unit. Each partition is represented by a
drive letter at the operating system level (e.g. C:,
D:,...). For that reason, partitions are commonly
called logical drives, or volumes. A partition is
also associated with a file system, or a structure
for laying out files on the partition. We will use these
four words interchangeably throughout this manual.
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The Logicube Omniclone Xi is available in 2, 5 and 10 Target drive configurations.