The FBI has the capacity to clone drives quickly, absolutely (although amusingly, the process is actually slower now than it was then, as drives are larger). H

The FBI has the capacity to clone drives quickly, absolutely (although amusingly, the process is actually slower now than it was then, as drives are larger). However, field cloning is absolutely not the desired procedure to use (for a lot of reasons). You only do field cloning if you are either: 1) Under a time crunch, or 2) Don't want the target to know that the clone has occurred. If at all possible, you just take the equipment and process it in the lab. I've done about 2 dozen of these for the FBI. We did field-cloning maybe three times.