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"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 05/09/2018 at 16:03 • Filed to: None

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Now I have to figure out how to get the contents of a 2 TB boot drive onto this 500 GB drive. I’ve had no problems going from a smaller drive to a larger one, but this is the first time in going the other direction. I guess it’s going to involve a lot of backing up and repartitioning.

I usually use a hardware device to clone between drives (when the new one is larger), or on the Mac I use Carbon Copy Cloner and select only what I need. Can I use CCC on the Mac to duplicate a Windows partition? Or is there a Windows equivalent to CCC?

Nibby > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 05/09/2018 at 16:11

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this will do it for you with ease but it costs money

https://www.easeus.com/backup-software/

Wacko > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 05/09/2018 at 16:11

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i used acronis true image

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 05/09/2018 at 17:05

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I used Macrium Reflect, but Acronis seems to be the most popular choice. I tried to use Acronis but didn’t get the hang of it.

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 05/09/2018 at 17:16

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Has anyone here used a SSD to end-of-life? What usually happens?

Thomas Donohue > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever 05/09/2018 at 17:58

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Do you mean, has anyone here had an SSD crap out? Yes, in my laptop. It was about six months old.

You just get nothing....invalid disk. It was a Transcend, and they offered zero options for any kind of data recovery IIRC. They just sent me a new drive.

nermal > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 05/09/2018 at 20:12

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I installed a new SSD with a new OS install, and use that for all applications and “working” files. All long term storage goes to the old HDD, things like downloaded videos and pictures and stuff. It seems to be working well so far.

syaieya > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 05/09/2018 at 22:27

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Oddly relevant to my interest

NojustNo > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 05/10/2018 at 14:28

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I have successfully cloned a larger to smaller drive with the free version of Reflect. As good as true image at 100% discount.its also useful as a drive backup tool for my pc as well as it does incremental or differential backups.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > NojustNo 05/10/2018 at 14:56

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Awesome! I quite like Reflect. Since it’s not very well known I don’t rave about it.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever 05/10/2018 at 17:19

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Based on what I’ve read, most SSD’s are able to surpass the manufacturer’s write endurance rating. Some may become read-only one they can’t perform any writes, and may or may not kill themselves after a reboot (most likely will).

https://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 05/10/2018 at 18:32

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That’s really relieving to read. Reverting to read-only is a very benign failure mode.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever 05/10/2018 at 21:37

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Yes, it is. Though I would beware, the article I linked to mentions some SSDs experiencing uncorrectable errors. I’m not sure what these mean though, and fortunately, they appear so far down the line, it doesn’t seem something to worry about.

The M.2 NVMe drive from Samsung I have in my PC has written 5.5 TB since May of last year. If I still did as much downloading as I used to a few years ago that number could probably be 7 or 8 TB. The drive is warrantied to 100 TBW/3 years. It will certainly last a very long time, hopefully...