SDD upgrade, clone or fresh install?
On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 10:56:26 +0000, T i m wrote:
Peeps,
Following on from the Digital Audio Workstation / laptop question
previously, we have since found a s/h i5 HP Notebook that seems to run
Reason 11 ok. It came with a 750GB hdd that I'd like to swap out for a
SSD (a new 500GB Samsung 860 EVO is sitting here ready).
Now, I think I read somewhere that if you clone a std HDD onto a SSD
you may not get the optimum configuration, compared with allowing W10
to partition the drive from scratch itself. This is down to partition
/ block boundaries or some such? [1]
So, whilst this is a pretty fresh re-install of W10, she's taken it to
school the last couple of days and has to get the school IT dept to
put it online.
Now, if a fresh install (that is potentially going to be running for a
while, especially if she goes onto UNI etc) could give better results
than cloning, I might as well do that, even if she has to 'bother'
school IT again.
Thoughts please?
Cheers, T i m
[1] Or can you re-configure such things post cloning, with Gparted or
the like?
With mine (Samsung 950 Pro, SATA) I cloned it with Macrium Reflect,
disconnected the HDD and it booted straight away. ISTR having to do a couple
of things (BIOS?) first. This was a couple of years or so ago and the MoBo
was just OK with last BIOS issued.
I also got a driver so that I could try a NVMe one, but it boots to useable
in 35s even with all the things that run at start.
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Peter.
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