SSD users: Anyone upgrade and clone their prior HD?

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Faldoe
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SSD users: Anyone upgrade and clone their prior HD?

Post by Faldoe » Mon Jul 30, 2012 10:49 pm

I plan on getting a SSD pretty soon but I'm not sure whether I should clone my prior drive - which would include cloning Live, or if I should do a fresh OS install on the new drive and then reinstall everything. Any of you make the upgrade? If so, what method did you use? Results?

Thanks.

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Re: SSD users: Anyone upgrade and clone their prior HD?

Post by H20nly » Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:46 pm

Windows or Mac?

if Windows, make sure to move the temp and swap (page) files to a separate physical drive so you don't use up all your SDD writes on crap.

Macs are perfect and need nothing done to them ever.

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Re: SSD users: Anyone upgrade and clone their prior HD?

Post by Faldoe » Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:54 pm

sorry, forgot to state my machine - yeah, I'm running a Mac. 2011 MBP

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Re: SSD users: Anyone upgrade and clone their prior HD?

Post by cpyatak » Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:03 am

:roll:
H20nly wrote: Macs are perfect and need nothing done to them ever.
:roll:

LOL

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Re: SSD users: Anyone upgrade and clone their prior HD?

Post by LP » Wed Aug 01, 2012 2:18 pm

Oh yeah, you better back it up.

I had a real nice OWC Mercury Extreme SSD in my 15" MBP which really made it clear I could probably get another year or so out of the 5 year old machine, maxed out to 6 GB, with both FW 400 and 800 and expresscard, all things I use that new machines don't have so easily...

It worked great for 6 weeks, them BAM. Total drive failure. Unmountable in any chassis. Too small to be a doorstop...

Good thing I had cloned the original, and kept all my work on external HD.

:(

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Re: SSD users: Anyone upgrade and clone their prior HD?

Post by tintala » Wed Aug 01, 2012 2:54 pm

I am on a PC, did the upgrade, cloned and lost the authorization,was out of them too, so had to email for another authorization. But I did a whole new install, had to authorize that one too!! All of my VSt had to be re-authorized, Reason also, what a royal pain in the ass..

anyone know how not to use up authorizations while cloning?

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Re: SSD users: Anyone upgrade and clone their prior HD?

Post by fishmonkey » Thu Aug 02, 2012 12:18 pm

tintala wrote: anyone know how not to use up authorizations while cloning?
it depends on the software. some copy protection schemes include hard drive ID, some don't.

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Re: SSD users: Anyone upgrade and clone their prior HD?

Post by rosti » Thu Aug 02, 2012 12:34 pm

I used Super Duper to clone my HDD to SSD. Super simple and everything worked fine after the SSD install. Even the windows that were open stayed that way :D

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Re: SSD users: Anyone upgrade and clone their prior HD?

Post by tintala » Thu Aug 02, 2012 5:16 pm

rosti wrote:I used Super Duper to clone my HDD to SSD. Super simple and everything worked fine after the SSD install. Even the windows that were open stayed that way :D

so Super Duper is only for MAc?

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Re: SSD users: Anyone upgrade and clone their prior HD?

Post by rosti » Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:13 am

tintala wrote:
rosti wrote:I used Super Duper to clone my HDD to SSD. Super simple and everything worked fine after the SSD install. Even the windows that were open stayed that way :D

so Super Duper is only for MAc?
It seems so. With PC i would propably use dd on Ubuntu live CD to do the same. More of a hustle but that what PCs are all about ;D

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Re: SSD users: Anyone upgrade and clone their prior HD?

Post by cids » Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:43 am

Cloning works great, I've used Carbon Copy...
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Re: SSD users: Anyone upgrade and clone their prior HD?

Post by simpleton » Wed Aug 08, 2012 2:31 am

FYI- the new Macbook Pros use the Samsung 830 series SSD's.
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Re: SSD users: Anyone upgrade and clone their prior HD?

Post by lapieuvre » Wed Aug 08, 2012 2:39 pm

I did it with time machine, and worked flawlessly. Took no time.
MBP 2018, 16 GB Ram, OSX 10.15.7
MBP M1 Max 64 GB Ram, OSX 14.3.1
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