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October 16th, 2018 05:00
Alienware 17R4 SSD upgrade
Im looking into upgrading the SSD that has my OS on it from a SanDisk 128GB SSD to something bigger. Ive read alot of articles on compatibility issues when cloning drives particularly with Samsung 256GB SSD's and similar. I was wondering if there are any suggestion on the matter. I don't wanna spend too much but i want something that won't fill up too fast either. Some apps, games and programs only work or seem to work better on the OS drive and it's almost full.
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October 17th, 2018 09:00
I've upgraded both of my drives (the small SSD and the HDD) to dual Samsung 960 Pro's without any issues (and a decent speed increase when loading large games and video recording / editing.
You can use Clonezilla (Free open Source) to image and restore your drives -- just note that you will need to manually rename the UNIX-style partition images for the restoration to be successful. You will also need a reasonably large external USB drive to host the backups.
(it's simply a matter of changing "hdXXX to sdXXX" nothing terribly complicated)
As always though, be smart -- backup your stuff before doing this.