I've copied drives before an don't remember it taking a particularly long time. So I looked it up and and with USB2 it should take about 8 hours for 1TB. Theoretically you can use your system while it's copying but you wouldn't want to be replacing files it's copying. But surely there are long periods when you don't use your computer, like when you sleep?
If you do not have USB2, you need it! Or maybe a new computer...
What I think you need is not clone software but backup software. When you want to update this disk you do not need to copy everything again -- you can instead run a backup program that looks at both and only copies new or changed files. There are options for backups and you need to decide what options you want. Which is the primary or do you want to merge. Assuming a primary, do you want to delete any files deleted on my primary disk. Some of my backup copies I set to keep a copy of deleted files in a separate place so I could retrieve them if I made a mistake. However, I want the backup directories themselves to be a true copy and not include old deleted stuff.
Judy
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