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Why is it recommended to clone Mac hard drive to SSD?
When it comes to the 'clone' topic, what do you expect the most? We usually recommend the way of cloning your Mac hard drive in case that you decide to upgrade Mac hard drive with a solid state drive, replace an old or corrupted Mac drive with a newly bought one, or perhaps try to create a bootable hard drive for Mac.
All those demands can be easily satisfied by cloning behavior. Above all, by cloning disk 1 to disk 2, you don't necessarily worry about reinstalling operating system, transfer files, folders, applications and some settings on the new hard disk; second, keep a cloned hard drive with setup volume on it can help boot your Mac machine easily when unexpected disasters came and stroke your Mac.
What's the best Mac cloning software?
In order to assist you better in cloning Mac's hard drive without interruption, we come up with a piece of handy and specialized Mac cloning software, which is called EaseUS Todo Backup for Mac.
Being a professional Mac backup, clone and synchronization utility, EaseUS Todo Backup for Mac allows Mac users to clone everything on one hard drive to another easily, and the destination disk can be an HDD as well as SSD.
How to clone Mac hard drive to SSD (Make a bootable Mac hard drive)?
Only several simple clicks can help accomplish the job of cloning Mac hard drive to a solid state drive. Follow the detailed guide and get started.
Step 1. Connect both hard drive and SSD to Mac computer and launch EaseUS Mac cloning software.
Step 2. In the From drop-down list, select the volume you want to clone, which should be the source disk.
Step 3. In the To drop-down list, select the SSD as the destination disk.
Step 4. Set up the disk cloning properties. Here, you are allowed to exclude files or folders if necessary.
Step 5. Finally, click the Start button to execute the cloning operation.
SAMSUNG SSD 840 is sized in 120G, 250G, and 500G, so it's really necessary to partition it and make full use of SSD disk. How to partition SSD in Windows 10? We have many methods to create new partition in new disks and redistribute disk space methods for older ones. If you have this disk running out space, you can also use our guide steps to free up SSD disk space.
This guide also applies to 850 Evo or other Solid State Disks
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Partition it in Disk Management
Windows 10 Disk Management is a powerful partition tool to free manage disk space, it's very useful for new Disks, and here are the steps to partition SAMSUNG SSD 840 in Disk management:
Run Disk management in Windows 10 by type in diskmgmt.msc in Win+R box
Click on SAMSUNG SSD, and select NEW Simple Volume from right-click menu
Follow New Simple Volume Wizard and distribute space to each drive
File System: NTFS; Allocation unit size: 4K; (For example)
Click NEXT and Finish; Press Windows + E to check new partition in File explorer
Disk Management works very well on creating new partitions, but if you want to resize any partition, C Drive for instance, it's not that easy for disk management to redo partition jobs, and that's when we should try partition tool for more complicate jobs on SAMSUNG SSD.
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SAMSUNG SSD Partition Tool
As for more partition tasks like resize partition, move partition and shrink partition, Disk Management is not the first option, how to solve these complicate partition with ease? We'll guide you how to use Partition Expert on tasks which cannot be easily completed by Windows snap in partition tool.
Now we have SAMSUNG SSD 840 partitioned in Disk Management, but I gave less size to C Drive, how to make C Drive larger after all free space have been distributed to partitions? OK, here are the steps to Extend C Drive in SAMSUNG SSD 840:
Download Partition Expert, install it and Run
Click one partition with more free space, and click Resize/Move Volume
Drag the handle on both sides to resize large sized partition; (that's the steps to shrink volume in Partition Expert), and click OK
Click C Drive, and select Resize/Move Volume again
Drag the handle on the right side to extend C Drive; and Click OK; (that's the steps to extend partition in Partition Expert).
Click Commit in the main interface and Partition Expert will extend C Drive and shrink large sized partition at the same time.
Extend Volume function is also available in Disk management, you can delete one partition near to C Drive and make the whole partition as unallocated space if you don't have any, and then extend volume on C Drive. Partition Expert will not ask you to delete any partition, so you don't have to worry about data loss in old disks.
If you are partitioning a new SSD disk, it's OK to repartitioning it by deleting partitions, it's also a recommended way to repartition empty SSD disk. Proper partitioning will improve SSD performance, you can do more to improve it.
SAMSUNG SSD Partition Alignment
Make SSD partition alignment to 4K is another way of improving SSD performance, after which operation, read and write speed will reach the best in SSD. You can click 4K in allocated unit size when creating new volume in disk management, and you can also use format partition to make partition alignment after backup your files. Alternative way to make SSD partition alignment is to use Partition expert, here are the steps:
Run Partition Expert, click on unallocated space; and click Create Volume
Set Volume Label, choose File System, define Cluster size: 4K, and select volume type: Primary or Logical
Define new volume size
Select SSD partition alignment: 4K (8k, 16k, 32k, 64k alignment are also available).
Click OK and Commit
RAW Partition SAMSUNG SSD
SAMSUNG SSD 840 was released years ago, so there're many second-handed 840 available, people who would like to reuse this product would require a clean disk in RAW partition. How to make SAMSUNG SSD 840 to RAW partition? As Partition Magic Free software, Partition Expert is able to make partition to RAW status.
Steps to make RAW Partition in SAMSUNG SSD 840
Run Partition Expert, and click SAMSUNG SSD disk
Click Wipe Disk from left operation column
Click YES to the warning message
Select Wiping methods from the list
Click OK and Commit.
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After wiping the whole disk, you cannot use SAMSUNG SSD, reload this disk and it will show as RAW disk, then you can donate this or give someone who needs this without warring data leakage.