[dba-Tech] SSD Pricing

[John Colby]

You can clone the drive by mounting it via usb and running software.  
SSDs tend to be low enough power to run via usb


On 10/7/2018 5:25 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> Gary,
>
> Sound advice. Thanks.
>
> A.
>
> On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 8:53 PM Gary Kjos <garykjos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> $50 isn't a bad price for that.  You need to both drives mounted
>> somewhere.  SO you will need an open drive slot OR you would use an
>> external drive bay of some kind to attach  the drive to the computer
>> and then you would use software - the drive company would likely
>> provide the software to do the copy.  But you need to have both the
>> old and the new dirves in the same system somehow to do it.  And it
>> will take some time.  Half hour or an hour maybe.  It's certainly
>> doable on your own though.  I've not switched SSD to SSD but have
>> switched Rotating to rotating and rotating to SSD a few times and it's
>> not really hard.  Have to jump through some hoops most of us are not
>> used to.  Creating disk partitions and such.  Good to have a second
>> system available to investigate options as you go if you run into a
>> question but the system should be usable until you switch the cables
>> after the new drive is deemed ready to use.
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