Cloning a HDD to SSD

[toooldforthiscrap]

Are there any issues with cloning a bootable HDD into a bootable SSD (using Mac OS)?
Is there any utilities that are good for this specific purpose?

[Touchclarity]

All of the Samsung SSD's that I have purchased come with an imaging / cloning utility just for this purpose.. (not that I have ever used it)... I cant really speak for other brands... But anything along the lines of Norton Ghost etc should do the job..

[toooldforthiscrap]

This has another quirk..... The customer who is bringing this into me to clone (have not seen it yet) says the SSD is 1TB and is part of a PCIe card, yet claims to be bootable. I have never seen a PCI slot bootable in BIOS/CMOS.

[lcoughey]

If you are copying an HFS+ OS drive, you can use Disk Utility in MacOS to copy from one to the other.

I can't speak to a 1TB PCIe SSD, but I know that the new mid 2013 MacBook Air systems use a PCIe SSD for their hard drives...yes, the PCIe is an Apple proprietary connection, as far as I know.

[toooldforthiscrap]

If you are copying an HFS+ OS drive, you can use Disk Utility in MacOS to copy from one to the other. I can't speak to a 1TB PCIe SSD, but I know that the new mid 2013 MacBook Air systems use a PCIe SSD for their hard drives...yes, the PCIe is an Apple proprietary connection, as far as I know.

Many thanks. You never stop learning....