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best way of copying hard drive to SSD?
Suppose I wish to replace a 500 GB hard disk with a 500 GB SSD.
Should I use the manufacturers data migration software, or can I just use a workhorse like Clonezilla or Acronis? |
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wrote in message ... Suppose I wish to replace a 500 GB hard disk with a 500 GB SSD. Should I use the manufacturers data migration software, or can I just use a workhorse like Clonezilla or Acronis? Acronis is fine and provides more flexibility if you want to change the partitioning etc too at the same time as the copy. |
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"DevilsPGD" wrote:
said: Suppose I wish to replace a 500 GB hard disk with a 500 GB SSD. Should I use the manufacturers data migration software, or can I just use a workhorse like Clonezilla or Acronis? If your manufacturer has a tool, I'd consider it first since it will deal with the sector alignment issue natively and may handle any manufacturer specific details of the drive better than other options. However, as long as you deal with sector alignments, there's really no bad choice. Do you know if Macrium Reflect Free handles SSD alignments correctly for single partition cloning? I've had good experience with Casper by Future Systems Solutions over the years, but version 7 of that utility has more bells and whistles than I need, making it too expensive for just simple cloning. *TimDaniels* |
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"Rod Speed" commented: wrote: Suppose I wish to replace a 500 GB hard disk with a 500 GB SSD. Should I use the manufacturers data migration software, or can I just use a workhorse like Clonezilla or Acronis? Acronis is fine and provides more flexibility if you want to change the partitioning etc too at the same time as the copy. By "change the partitioning" do you mean "re-arrange the relative positions and sizes of partitions when cloning an entire drive"? In the past, I've just cloned individual partitions using Casper and told it to put the contents into any partition that could accommodate the size of the actual data in the cloned partition. *TimDaniels* |
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best way of copying hard drive to SSD?
"Timothy Daniels" wrote in message m... "Rod Speed" commented: wrote: Suppose I wish to replace a 500 GB hard disk with a 500 GB SSD. Should I use the manufacturers data migration software, or can I just use a workhorse like Clonezilla or Acronis? Acronis is fine and provides more flexibility if you want to change the partitioning etc too at the same time as the copy. By "change the partitioning" do you mean "re-arrange the relative positions and sizes of partitions when cloning an entire drive"? Yes. In some situations some want to do stuff like that as well. In the past, I've just cloned individual partitions using Casper and told it to put the contents into any partition that could accommodate the size of the actual data in the cloned partition. You have a lot more capability with Acronis in that regard. |
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best way of copying hard drive to SSD?
On 17/07/2013 6:48 PM, Timothy Daniels wrote:
Do you know if Macrium Reflect Free handles SSD alignments correctly for single partition cloning? I've had good experience with Casper by Future Systems Solutions over the years, but version 7 of that utility has more bells and whistles than I need, making it too expensive for just simple cloning. *TimDaniels* Yes, as long as you're using the latest version 5.0+. Yousuf Khan |
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"Yousuf Khan" replied: Timothy Daniels wrote: Do you know if Macrium Reflect Free handles SSD alignments correctly for single partition cloning? I've had good experience with Casper by Future Systems Solutions over the years, but version 7 of that utility has more bells and whistles than I need, making it too expensive for just simple cloning. *TimDaniels* Yes, as long as you're using the latest version 5.0+. Yousuf Khan Good to know. I think I'll give it a try, then. *TimDaniels* |
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