Stellar Drive 2.5 Clone Review: Cloning and Imaging software for Mac

Stellar Drive Clone is an ideal cloning tool for Mac users who can't afford to let their important data loss or hard drive crash. This new cloning software from Stellar has become popular among Mac users.

With interactive interface and capability of creating bootable clone, its 2.5 version adds some more useful features and make it more worthy.

Stellar Drive Clone Pros:

• Easy to understand interface and smooth process.

• Create Bootable clone of your Mac drive and Recovery HD (include Lion and Mountain lion) also.

• It supports SSD and exFAT formatted drives or volumes.

• Clones to external drive, another volume and network drive.

• Perform both File level and block level cloning.

• Ensure data safety and protection without causing any loss.

• Provide support to MBR formatted partition scheme.

Stellar Drive Clone Cons:

• Doesn't provide estimate time for cloning.

• Image created by it is not in compressed form.
  
  
  

  

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Review of Stellar Drive Clone:

When it comes to keep back up of your Mac files, I think Apple's Time Machine is there for backing up and keep your data safe from any loss. However, Time Machine and Stellar Drive Clone differ in there nature of job. 

 

Using Time Machine you can access backup of your files that have been corrupted or deleted accidentally. Stellar Drive Clone offers you to clone and create Mac bootable dvd of your drive and specific volumes that enables you to continue your work on a different Mac machine even when your Mac gets suddenly crashed.

Although time machine is great Mac's utility for backup and restoring files but Stellar Drive Clone can do something where time machine fails. Like creating bootable clone, imaging, restore, create exact clone of your drive or folder etc.

Ease of Use: 10/10 

 

Generally, cloning process is considered to be complex but with Stellar Drive Clone it becomes smooth and fast. It clone your Mac hard drive without any technical expertise and also letting your work flow same without disturbance and interference while cloning.

Its interactive and easy to use interface enables you to perform job smoothly without any expertise, It offers you three tabs: Clone&Imaging, Restore and Tools.

If you want to create clone of your drive then click on 'clone and imaging tab' and select clone option. Now, choose “clone” for creating clone of your drive. Select the source and destination to store the clone. Do the same for creating image by clicking on “Image” tab. For restore, you need to click on 'restore tab' and for creating bootable dvd click on tools button.

Cloning Feature: 8.2/10

While there are many Cloning softwaree in market, but I prefer it due to its fast performance in cloning without disturbing you with lots of pop up ads. Clone Mac hard drive using this software is easy and reliable. Clone Mac data is essential for a integrity and maintenance against any type of loss.

Imaging Feature: 7.5/10

It can easily create disk image including image of bootable volume that helps you when you face problem in booting.It leaves bad sectors while creating image of disk or volume. If you process to create image of hard drive then a pop up window opens saying “create minimal system of boot volume”. Click it to create image of your bootable volume. This can be taken as a backup which helps you if your bootable volume crash.

Support: 8.6/10

You can find Support in preferences tab where there is a link of the site to know in detail. It provides you Installation guide, un-installation guide, user manual(describing each term without technical jargon) gives all answers to your questions. And all content is written by keeping end user in mind.

There are FAQs and blogs to let you more clear about cloning and problems that another users have come across. Finally if something cause problem then you are free to call any time to customer support open 24/5 hours or can email also.

Summary/Final thoughts:

After observing its amazing features, I would say that it is one of the best Mac cloning applications I ever came across.