SSD Questions

[jackstar7]

So I picked up an Intel 80gb to take over as my boot drive because my PQI (32gb) has been stuttering here and there and generally lagging behind what I expect from an SSD (even with it being a weak one). I’m mostly certain this has to do with Win7-Pro taking up more space than I anticipated on the drive… but that’s neither here nor there.

My questions are:

Are there any risks I should be aware of cloning a smaller SSD to a larger? What I mean is if I do not partition the new drive and go from 32gb to 80gb… will that just work the way I expect?

Will a free version of Acronis get the job done?


Any answers/help/advice is appreciated. Thanks!

 

[F1shF4t]

Should be fine. Is your partition on the PQI ssd alligned? If so all you need is to do a bit by bit copy to the new ssd and then resize the partition to full size.

I haven't used Acronis, but from what I've heard it doesn't keep alignment if you just copy the partition. Don't know if it can do bit by bit copy though. I just use free version of HDclone myself.

 

[jackstar7]

Thank you. I gotta admit I'm not sure about the alignment question you ask, though I would think the bit-by-bit would be consistent either way.

If this were that kind of message board, I'd rep you.

 

[F1shF4t]

No worries mate.

You're right, if you do a bit by bit then the destination drive will be an exact copy, alligned or otherwise. My thoughts were if the drive is missaligned then it probably doesn't matter if you used bit by bit or another copy method.

 

[jackstar7]

Just wanted to update and say that the new Intel drive works great and the copy with the free WD Acronis worked flawlessly.

WEI jumped from 5.9 to 7.7 for the hard drive. Hard not to be happy with that. Now my CPU is the slowest component in my rig... and that's okay with me.

Thanks again.