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2 minutes ago, MatthiewGallant said:

Hi, Simple question maybe but are there any downsides to cloning a drive? i have a normal sata SSD that i want to clone over to my M.2 that i just got back from rma to make my boot drive, will it be a huge pain to do so or should it be okay?

Easy. I use Macrium reflect, but there are many tools you can use. Clone it, tell the BIOS to use the M.2 as boot, and your done 🙂

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Hi, Simple question maybe but are there any downsides to cloning a drive? i have a normal sata SSD that i want to clone over to my M.2 that i just got back from rma to make my boot drive, will it be a huge pain to do so or should it be okay?

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2 minutes ago, MatthiewGallant said:

Hi, Simple question maybe but are there any downsides to cloning a drive? i have a normal sata SSD that i want to clone over to my M.2 that i just got back from rma to make my boot drive, will it be a huge pain to do so or should it be okay?

Easy. I use Macrium reflect, but there are many tools you can use. Clone it, tell the BIOS to use the M.2 as boot, and your done 🙂

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3 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

Easy. I use Macrium reflect, but there are many tools you can use. Clone it, tell the BIOS to use the M.2 as boot, and your done 🙂

awesome.  i was really worried that id lose files or something, at least with them both being ssds it'll be somewhat faster than going from an HDD to an SSD 

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