Help with Mass Hard drive cloning station
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@zionda First you know my answer will be a bit biased toward FOG
From a logic standpoint, wouldn’t you want to use the same tool to initially deploy your images as you would for ongoing imaging? This is where I think FOG is a perfect solution. The same tool used to originally image the machines will be also used if the target computer is damaged and must be repaired and reimaged some time in the future.
The scope of your question has changed a bit now. In your OP I had envisioned that you would been to image 100s of PCs at the same time (mass deployment). FOG works great for this with its multicasting ability (sending 1 image to many computers). With your latest post your work flow seems to be a bit different. You will have to manually touch each computer to replace its hard drive. You could use a disk duplicator here or you can use FOG and unicast a single image to the target computer. In my company, with our fat image ~25GB it takes about 4 minutes to push the image to the target computer. If you think about your cycle time that image is faster than you can replace the hard drive in the next computer.
Regardless of the approach you take, you need to consider how much after the imaging is complete you have to / need to touch the computer. Will you have to name the computer? Will you have to connect it to the domain? Assign it to a certain OU? Install additional applications? Install any local hardware peripheral drivers? Make any other post imaging customizations? How frequent will these systems be reimaged (daily, monthly, yearly)? All of these steps may need to be taken into consideration when determining your imaging solution.
The image push is only the first step in the imaging process. You have quite a few others to consider when going from bare metal to finished product.
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@zionda I answered these questions in my below post. I hold firmly that you don’t yet understand what FOG offers, and still suggest setting up a POC before asking more questions that aren’t related to setting up the POC. None of us here are salesmen, we’re volunteers. Four days have gone by now in this thread, you could have had a POC setup in a few hours and answered many of your questions on your own.
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@zionda Hi, is there no network infrastructure? FOG is doing it’s job over the network and the clue is since every computer is connected to the network you don’t need to move em. You also can wake em remotely.
For your case i would image the computer, replace the harddrive and deploy the image back to the new drive what ever it is m2, ssd, hdd.
I bet you haven’t seen fog taking its actions right?
if so please try it you will be flashed out 
Regards X23
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Thank you guys for the answeres
We will setup a FOG server and revert back
Hopefully all go smoothThe goal is to install 200-300 new Desktop with the same image every day
Approx 1000 units a month.With that we are preparing the space to put the PCs with enough power outlets , ethernet ports, KVMs to put the 200 batch each time
Wish me luck guys
Zion
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@zionda You can probably do 1,000 a day once you’re setup.
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@zionda said in Help with Mass Hard drive cloning station:
Wish me luck guys
good luck and don’t forget to report and don’t hesitate to ask if you have any setup problems.
