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Question

Clone....ssd>ssd

Jul 25, 2019 10:34PM PDT

Source disk connected via sata 3.
Destination disk connected via usb 3.

Crystal disk mark shows both disk with r/w speeds in the 500MB/s area.

Clone speed is 175/195MB/s.

Is this normal?

Task manager does not show any high numbers when the clone is running.

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Sounds right.
Jul 25, 2019 10:37PM PDT

Much better than my last clone job. This work tends to test our patience.

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Thanks
Jul 25, 2019 11:57PM PDT

This being a new machine and I'm forced to use usb for the output I did not know if what I was looking at for data rate was good or bad.

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FWIW
Jul 26, 2019 3:50AM PDT

I can't help with speed but I've sometimes had bad luck cloning from one interface type to another where the copied drive won't work when installed. This had been with laptops and I don't know why. What I need to do create an image of the drive on a USB external, put the new bare drive in the laptop and restore the image to it. This may or may not be related to the cloning software but I use Acronis TI. Of course you probably checked the functionality of the clone already.

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True
Jul 26, 2019 6:11AM PDT

The first time I ran the clone and swapped the hdd for a cloned ssd that I just made it would not boot.

So I had to swap things back and bring up disk management.
That's were I noticed the 2 disk were different.

Deleted all the partitions on the ssd and reran the clone.
Now everything looked the same.

Did the swap out and it boots fine.

Being a novice to this usb stuff I did not know if my xfer speed was in the ball park or not.