If you put in a SSD occasionally and clone your internal SSD (OS) to it, will it boot to it? Will it boot to the 3.5 if it has an OS on it?Thanks
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Yes it will boot to it. Just remember to set it as your boot drive in bios. You can also select it at boot up. Some motherboards it's the F12 key to choose which drive to boot from.
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Yes. The SATA connectors are pass-thru type on this device, unlike many drive docks. I installed this device solely for system imaging backup/restoration and confirmed my restored drive is bootable.However, do note that the compactness of the 2-drive designs means the HDD can get toastily hot! Even with only 1 x 3.5in HDD it can get very toasty, but a single 2.5in SSD will be perfectly fine ...
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Yes. The clone will be identical to the original. SSD behave the same as regular hard drive (although much faster)
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You should be able to clone an SSD with this adapter, but some folks have reported issues with booting after doing so. I suspect it could be a sector alignment issue, use a smart cloning software and it should work.
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Thanks Pete. I was considering this as I figured this was digital but I am guessing its not? Wanted to avoid the mechanics of a 3.5. I have an ssd drive in a pc I built and it screams. So this hard drive spins then I take it and is not digital as I first assumed. I see now that assumption was wrong and there is no advantage other than size. Thanks!
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Yes, provided the amout of data to be cloned/transferred from the HDD does not exceed the capacity of your SSD.
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Yes, it will be fine. The 3.5 can fit into the existing bay that I installed 2 SSD's in. The Solid State drive can then fit sideways on the left side of the DVD bay screwed against that slot in one of those cheap 3.5 to 2.5 conversion racks. I almost did that myself because I wanted an internal card reader. I changed my mind. One bit of advice. I installed a 120mm fan on the inside of the right hand vents. It runs a heck of a lot cooler with that cross ventilation. I am typing on the unit now & it's running really good. I installed 8 GBs of ram and a video card though. Good luck to you.
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I just added an SSD in the m2 slot and used imaging software to clone the drive. In my experience with Windows 8, it actually stores the Windows 8 key in the BIOS, so it will install with the correct key by itself (only with computers shipped with Windows 8).
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It depends in which software that you use, I believe there is some paid software that can clone only the OS but as always it is recommended to just reinstall straight onto the SSD
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If you just need to clone a drive you may find other utilities better suited. This specializes in moving to an equal or larger Solid State Drive (SSD) drive. Not all disk cloning software works with solid state drives as I tried a couple of others before this and they copied the data, but the PC would not boot to the clone. I normally use other utilities to clone SATA drives.
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You can always do mirror image of you ssd which basically means its making a replica of the HDD to the SSD. So, YES
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I'm using a "Crucial M500 M.2 2280 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CT120M500SSD4 " that I caught on sale for $46 for boot and antivirus, with a 500GB ssd for pgms and a 1TB for snapshots and data. No problems with install from optical disk, no problems running Win7. Not any faster than a standard ssd. Consider what you will do when the M.2 ssd fails, do you have a back up replacement ready to go? Or will you revert to a standard ssd?
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Yes it will work from SSD to a regular hard drive and vice a versa. It also works with different physical size drive like 2.5" to 3.5" etc. As long as the size you are copying to is equal to or larger than the original size. 500GB to 500GB or 320GB to 1TB.
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I just installed a new win7 os no problems at all. Then reattached my old drive and removed what I wanted , formatted it and store pictures and large programs on it. I am just sorry I did not buy a bigger SSD.
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it doesn't come with an OS, you can install either a Windows OS or a Linux distro (ie, Ubuntu, Fedora...)The SSD drive capacity can be whatever you want, but the actual SSD size needed is the 2.5 form factor. I tried fitting a 3.5 HD in the chasis and it didn't close all the way, so I switched to a 2.5.
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Yes, but you essentially cannot use the SSD drive; it's merely there for faster boot up from what I've heard.
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This is basically what I did, but I just put my SSD directly into my MBP, did a clean install of Mavericks, and moved over my desired files. It had been a while since I did a clean install, so I preferred to do it this way versus a clone. Now the HDD can be an external drive.
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Oung S., Yes, you can install an SSD into the unit and use it at the primary boot device after installing an O/S on it.