Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to MiniClone HD
The $5 Live Windows disk cloning tool
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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MultiDrive▲467Hey HN! I'm the CTO at Atola Technology, and we have launched MultiDrive: a free disk backup/clone/wipe tool that does things differently. After 17 years of work with drives, I got tired of seeing simple disk operations locked behind paywalls. Macrium killed their free version, EaseUS hides cloning in paid tiers, and so on and so forth. Another reason is that all the existing solutions are overly complicated. It must be simple enough for my mum to start erasing a USB stick or making a full drive backup. All in all, we thought the community deserved better. What makes MultiDrive…
Dec 2025 · multidrive.io · its alternatives →
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Build and run tiny vms from Dockerfiles. Small and sleek. - ottomatica/slim
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Insync 1.4▲139Transform Google Drive into a desktop app (Win/Linux/macOS)
2018 · insynchq.com · its alternatives →
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This is a long-running project that started as the proverbial need to scratch my own itch and then somehow evolved into a full-time job of the past 6 years. Link: https://bvckup2.com I thought I'd do a Show HN for two reasons. 1. I obviously want to show my baby to those who haven't seen it. Its primary purpose is to do very fast file replication. If you are familiar with "robocopy /mir" - same idea, but on steroids. Lots of them. It can be used for both mirroring and archiving backups, among other things. It is light, very small and it is really quite fast. Half of the…
2019 · bvckup2.com · its alternatives →
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i made sink. it's a simple little tool that continuously syncs folders between 2 devices. no cloud, no email, flash drives, no bs. it just uses your local wifi. run it on your machines, tell them to trust each other, and you're set. and if you manage to edit the same file at once, it handles the conflict and saves both copies. for anyone who just wants to get files from point a to b without the headache. hope it makes your life a bit less annoying. github: https://github.com/sirbread/sink binary:…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · blog.tutorspree.com · its alternatives →
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The overall idea is to chart out the thousands of Mini PCs by benchmark and reveal the Pareto Front so you can get the most Compute per Dollar. Definitely a labor of love as I have a number of Mini PCs for my "homelab" (TrueNAS, piHole, Plex, basic stuff). It uses Gemini to extract specs from listings (since they're not often strongly categorized). Quick blog post here: https://luke.zip/posts/pareto-pcs/
Jun 2026 · minipcs.zip · its alternatives →
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Clone HDD to SSD, migrate OS, skip bad sectors — safe & easy
Apr 2026 · donemax.com · its alternatives →
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A local-only journal with serious encryption. Free, open source, and never touches the internet. - fjrevoredo/mini-diarium
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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:crab: 464b rust binary on windows. Contribute to mcountryman/min-sized-rust-windows development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Clones Linux hard drives incrementally or to a smaller drive - DonyorM/weresync
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Best Hard Drive Cloning Software for Windows PC
2025 · aomeitech.com · its alternatives →
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A framework for diskless computing. Contribute to frzb/coinboot development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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DuckDisk▲104Table-first storage analysis for Mac, cloud, and SSH
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · blog.spawner.io · its alternatives →
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Drivebase▲98Unified file manager for all your cloud storage with E2EE
Feb 2026 · drivebase.io · its alternatives →
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Build and run tiny vms from Dockerfiles. Small and sleek. - GitHub - ottomatica/slim at 2.x
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I needed a lightweight way to archive documentation from a website. wget and similar tools failed to clone the site reliably (missing assets, broken links, etc.), so I ended up building a full website-cloning tool using Node.js + Puppeteer. Repo: https://github.com/jademsee/webclone Feedback, issues, and PRs are very welcome.
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Contribute to useblacksmith/stickydisk development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Windows Storage Proxy Driver - User mode disk storage - winfsp/winspd
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We needed a secure, multi-tenant way to offer shell accounts to users, but most VMMs were using too much memory and containers are unsafe. With clone, VMs are now more memory efficient than containers in most cases. Since many other projects on HN looked like they were doing this too, open sourcing this was the right thing to do. Feel free to use in whole or in part as you see fit!
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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:floppy_disk: Painless automated backups to multiple storage providers with Docker and duplicacy. - christophetd/duplicacy-autobackup
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Official blog for Minilith.
Sep 2026 · blog.minilith.site · its alternatives →
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