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toooldforthiscrap
 Post subject: Cloning a HDD to SSD
PostPosted: November 7th, 2013, 15:40 
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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?
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 Post subject: Re: Cloning a HDD to SSD
PostPosted: November 7th, 2013, 15:58 
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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..

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 Post subject: Re: Cloning a HDD to SSD
PostPosted: November 7th, 2013, 16:05 
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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.
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 Post subject: Re: Cloning a HDD to SSD
PostPosted: November 7th, 2013, 16:29 
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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.

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 Post subject: Re: Cloning a HDD to SSD
PostPosted: November 7th, 2013, 17:15 
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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.


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