tl;dr: I need to efficiently and cheaply split up some drives in a way that's going to be easiest and quickest to mass clone in a short period of time. Need your experience
So I'm a part of the hacking community. (Still feels weird to call myself a hacker, but w/e, I'm saying it like this for brevity)
I attended DEFCON this year and went to the data dupe village with two 8tb hard drives, got myself the Infocon 2024 drive and the vxunderground malware sample drive.
I intend to attend another con on the other side of the planet within a month. Will also be visiting other hackerspaces in the region.
Cloning 8tb drives by asking people to bring their 8tb drives is a bit much, for both time and expense reasons. It's a poorer region without cheap access to drives. I was thinking of splitting these up into 2tb drives.
Planning to pack the setup for this into a pelican case
Here are my questions:
- Is this a good idea? (I mean the procedure itself, save me your concern trolling about transporting malware please. Old dead malware is really only good for studying/education, which is the intention here)
- If so, what's the best value for 2tb hard drives. I was going to buy some stuff off of amazon but i got a suspicion i may be paying a premium here.
- What are some options i should consider for copying the drives? I know that there are really beefy solutions out there but hey cost thousands, and you're limited by the write speed of the drive anyways.
- Any good calculators that you know of to calculate my actual 'work capacity' here?
edit: or just downvote me to hell I guess
edit2: I'm far more interested in the answer to #3 than anything else