![]() ![]() Certainly the Samsung drives were never problematic, but the Crucials never gave me any trouble. I've had several of both manufactures in SATA SSDs. If that means the Crucial drive, get that one. For SATA drives, and as a matter of Samsung versus Crucial, I'd simply pick the drive that offers the best capacity, performance in a ballpark range, and the best price. But these are the total of my experience in these matters, and I feel comfortable recommending them, or simply following them myself.ĪLSO - ALMOST FORGOT, but it was my first attention reading the OP. Offering these words, I by no means criticize any other views of approaches. And the utility software, like Macrium or EaseUS - probably Acronis - usually assures proper alignment. I'd only worry as to whether your SSD target is properly aligned when you initialize it. If the target is a larger disk, you should be able to expand the system volume containing Windows without event or mishap. If I remember properly, it will clone the source volumes in their original sizes. I'd simply download the Macrium Reflect Free, and use it to clone your disk. After the effort I expended building my Skylake system, my familiarity with utility software that offers a cloning function expanded considerably. I also don't see why you would need to worry about drives of different sizes in the matter of cloning your OS disk. Because it was handed down to another family member, I cleaned up the boot drive, uninstalling software as necessary, and tweaking to eliminate red-bang event-log errors. It still has the original OS installation. So each reinstallation would lead you back into that repetitive mess, if it was ever a priority to you for being a practical perfectionist. Every time I build a new system, I spend days - perhaps a week or so - cleaning up all that stuff, searching for the fixes on the MS and other web-sites and forums according to Event ID and other descriptors. When you do reinstall the OS, you will always find glitches and anomalies that show themselves in the Event logs, and it is time-consuming to track down the fixes for them. It's not entirely a major chore to reinstall the OS, but you'll spend time gathering up drivers, reinstalling software, and other tedium. I decided long ago to depart from that option. With all due respect to posters and forum veterans, I've even seen magazine articles (Maximum PC) urging users to completely reinstall the OS every year.
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