![]() There are many ways to go about cloning a disk successfully and it all depends on your hardware configuration. In the past I have used Acronis to clone disks, a great tool. However, (maybe I read it wrong) why would he use an SSD as a storage drive and leave the slow SSD as primary? That makes no sense. Definitely I understand why clone from an oem disk as those usually contain the recovery partition's for a reinstall. Obviously, most people would recommend a clean install anyway - which is easy now thanks to the way Windows 10 licenses are stored and used - but disk cloning is still perfectly valid, and also the only way to get a functional factory restore image to boot and work correctly on another drive. So long as you're cloning from a SSD to another SSD (or a hard disk to another hard disk), and you're using a proper cloning tool that will update the disk UUID to prevent hardware conflicts (for example - Macrium Reflect), there is no problem doing so. However! The basic premise in this article is incorrect. SSD's have no such luxury due to the way cells are written and erased. ![]() Hard disks, for the most part, don't need any kind of alignment because data is read in stripes of arbitrary sizes in multiples of 512 bytes regardless of where the boundary is. Solid state drives *must* be partition boundary aligned, otherwise you get substantial performance degradation and a substantial increase in data writes (NAND wear). ![]() It's a dumb idea to clone from a disk drive to a SSD.
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