Disk cloning software - recommendations

[irishbeast]

Hi all,

 

I bought a second hand rig recently and all is good apart from the boot SSD which is the slowest SSD I have ever known. Speed tests say its in the bottom 5% of all the tests reported! So it needs to go as the system runs games really well but takes ages to boot and anything that needs to be read/written to the boot drive is torture.

 

I have a spare Sandisk 128gb SSD that was fine when last used. I simply want to clone the current SSD onto the Sandisk one and hopefully be able to boot straight in without reinstalling anything if that's possible. I have a 4.0 NVME as secondary drive and a 1TB SATA also (soon to be replaced with another SSD) 

 

Can someone recommend cloning software thats relatively easy to use? I don't mind paying a small amount but given that I will only use it once I ain't forking out much. 

 

Suggestions welcome - Thanks in advance

[porina]

Macrium Reflect is time limited free trial that isn't crippled of cloning feature. I used that on another system before for that reason.

 

I am curious what is the "slow" SSD that a 128GB Sandisk might be faster? I'm guessing the Sandisk must be old and/or low end.

[PDifolco]

9 minutes ago, irishbeast said:

Hi all,

 

I bought a second hand rig recently and all is good apart from the boot SSD which is the slowest SSD I have ever known. Speed tests say its in the bottom 5% of all the tests reported! So it needs to go as the system runs games really well but takes ages to boot and anything that needs to be read/written to the boot drive is torture.

 

I have a spare Sandisk 128gb SSD that was fine when last used. I simply want to clone the current SSD onto the Sandisk one and hopefully be able to boot straight in without reinstalling anything if that's possible. I have a 4.0 NVME as secondary drive and a 1TB SATA also (soon to be replaced with another SSD) 

 

Can someone recommend cloning software thats relatively easy to use? I don't mind paying a small amount but given that I will only use it once I ain't forking out much. 

 

Suggestions welcome - Thanks in advance

I use AOMEI it's pretty complete and works well

[irishbeast]

1 hour ago, porina said:

Macrium Reflect is time limited free trial that isn't crippled of cloning feature. I used that on another system before for that reason.

 

I am curious what is the "slow" SSD that a 128GB Sandisk might be faster? I'm guessing the Sandisk must be old and/or low end.

It's not even branded. I'll run the tests again later and post screenshots.

 

The SanDisk one was in an old rig and was absolutely fine. Can't be any worse than the other one!

[irishbeast]

1 hour ago, PDifolco said:

I use AOMEI it's pretty complete and works well

Thanks!

 

Will give it a whirl

[porina]

6 hours ago, PDifolco said:

I use AOMEI it's pretty complete and works well

Ooh, I missed this when looking around for one. If I'm reading their page correctly the free version of Partition Assistant does disk clones/copies too? Sounds ideal for future use.

[PDifolco]

2 hours ago, porina said:

Ooh, I missed this when looking around for one. If I'm reading their page correctly the free version of Partition Assistant does disk clones/copies too? Sounds ideal for future use.

Not sure the free version does all of that, or maybe only for a limited time.. I ended up buying it, it's not very expensive and always useful

[irishbeast]

Tests on all drives as below. Just fast tests but give you the idea. My SATA drive writes quicker than the boot SSD as does the one connected by USB 2.0 which would be faster conneted internally I suspect. Pretty safe to say the boor drive is absolute rubbish. 

 

So just need to clone the Generic to the Sandisk and will get a decent performance boost. 

 

Generic SSD (Boot drive)

 

NVME

 

USB SSD (Sandisk drive referred to earlier)

 

SATA