Best way to re-link media when transferring to another drive

quick background, very large project (4 TB drive) with FCP projects/sequences and lots of media. it's a project we are sending around the world to be translated to various languages. I am building a "master" drive that's organized, slimmed down, and set up so 3rd party folks can find their way through the project easy/quickly. the idea is to build a "master drive" like this, and simply copy it to clone drives that can be sent around.
whats the best way on the copied drives to keep all the media links connected, without having to back on every clone drive to manually reconnect the media (since the path changes with a different drive/drive name)?

Just give your drive the exact name and filepaths...
No worries at all.
You're sending the disks away, so the chance of hooking two 'same' drives at the same time is nihil I think...
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