Posted: 6/21/2015 9:24:52 AM EDT
| I have a sager laptop I bought a few years back, and I'm needing more SSD (primary drive) space. Is it possible to grab a new, bigger one and move all my current stuff to it from my current one? Thanks |
| acronis used to have very good free cloning software, but I believe they caught on and charging for it now. Worth a look online to see. When I did the last one, I picked up a portable usb enclosure to put the ssd into and cloned everything over. Then just swapped the drives and kept the old platter for a backup or portable. |
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Samsung SSD's come with a drive clone utility. They are very stable and fast drives and I have yet to have a problem with any of the 50+ I have used personally or deployed at the office. This. I've bout 6 of these drives in the past month. Have some 840s too. The new magician software is an ideal shortcut for configuring Windows and verifying hardware layout as well. |
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Quoted: Samsung SSD's come with a drive clone utility. They are very stable and fast drives and I have yet to have a problem with any of the 50+ I have used personally or deployed at the office. |
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This thread may be relevant to your interests.
I did exactly what the OP in that thread described, it work nearly flawlessly. I say "nearly" only because there was in issue (which I fixed without to much work) with getting Windows Backup to function on the new drive. Aside from that, no problems, and the laptop boots and launched applications much faster now. |
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Samsung SSD's come with a drive clone utility. They are very stable and fast drives and I have yet to have a problem with any of the 50+ I have used personally or deployed at the office. Not wanting to steel the thread but I want to start swapping in ssds into PCs that I have to reboot alot. Which Samsung SSDs are you using? |
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Not wanting to steel the thread but I want to start swapping in ssds into PCs that I have to reboot alot. Which Samsung SSDs are you using? Quoted:
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Samsung SSD's come with a drive clone utility. They are very stable and fast drives and I have yet to have a problem with any of the 50+ I have used personally or deployed at the office. Not wanting to steel the thread but I want to start swapping in ssds into PCs that I have to reboot alot. Which Samsung SSDs are you using? The 250GB 850 Evo is under $100 at Amazon and Newegg. You'll get marginally better performance from the 850 Pro. |
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Not wanting to steel the thread but I want to start swapping in ssds into PCs that I have to reboot alot. Which Samsung SSDs are you using? Quoted:
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Samsung SSD's come with a drive clone utility. They are very stable and fast drives and I have yet to have a problem with any of the 50+ I have used personally or deployed at the office. Not wanting to steel the thread but I want to start swapping in ssds into PCs that I have to reboot alot. Which Samsung SSDs are you using? Check the post above you. There is a huge thread on switching SSD's into computers, and cloning the current drive over, complete with product links, technical discussion, and a quick how to. It's one of the more informative posts in GD |
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Put your new SSD in a usb hardrive enclosure. They're about $10.00. Copy your entire current HD to the USB HD. It'll take a few hours. Open your computer and swap out the HDs. If you put your old HD into the now empty USB enclosure, you'll have a back up. Up to the point of transfer that is. I either throw the old HD in the USB enclosure in my safe, or format the drive to use for backing stuff up.  |
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Put the old and new disk into a PC at the same time, boot off a GParted Live CD, copy your partitions to the new drive and resize them to take up all space, put new SSD in the laptop, then use a Windows install disc to repair the MBR. Done.
At least that's how I do it. |
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Put the old and new disk into a PC at the same time, boot off a GParted Live CD, copy your partitions to the new drive and resize them to take up all space, put new SSD in the laptop, then use a Windows install disc to repair the MBR. Done. At least that's how I do it. Or just buy a Samsung SSD and use their free drive cloning software, which works perfectly. |
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Put the old and new disk into a PC at the same time, boot off a GParted Live CD, copy your partitions to the new drive and resize them to take up all space, put new SSD in the laptop, then use a Windows install disc to repair the MBR. Done. At least that's how I do it. Or just buy a Samsung SSD and use their free drive cloning software, which works perfectly. I wouldn't touch Samsung these days. The Samsung 840 had leaky flash cells that lose data if they aren't rewritten/refreshed occasionally, and the Samsung 850 now has a TRIM bug that causes it to delete the wrong blocks when a TRIM command is issued. |
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I wouldn't touch Samsung these days. The Samsung 840 had leaky flash cells that lose data if they aren't rewritten/refreshed occasionally, and the Samsung 850 now has a TRIM bug that causes it to delete the wrong blocks when a TRIM command is issued. I was aware of the 840 issue, not aware of the TRIM issue for the 850. Any further info on that or firmware updates on it? |
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I was aware of the 840 issue, not aware of the TRIM issue for the 850. Any further info on that or firmware updates on it? Quoted:
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I wouldn't touch Samsung these days. The Samsung 840 had leaky flash cells that lose data if they aren't rewritten/refreshed occasionally, and the Samsung 850 now has a TRIM bug that causes it to delete the wrong blocks when a TRIM command is issued. I was aware of the 840 issue, not aware of the TRIM issue for the 850. Any further info on that or firmware updates on it? Discussion and links here: http://www.overclock.net/t/1560608/algolia-when-solid-state-drives-are-not-that-solid/0_20 Kind of looks like Windows isn't actually affected, but it's still a firmware/controller bug so maybe it hasn't been noticed yet. |
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Yes. Pull your hard drive, install the new one, then install your OS on the new one. Once you've done that get a USB hard drive docking station and use it to pull your old files off of it. I did it differently, but mine was a new laptop. I bought Samsung SSD and a USB case for the drive. I put the SSD into the case and ran the cloning software on the laptop which put the OS (and all accounts) onto the SSD. Then I pulled the SSD from the case and replaced the laptop's main drive. It works great. Oh then I installed the laptops hard disk into the case and use it as a backup drive for the laptop. |
