[dba-Tech] SSD Pricing

[John Bartow]

You can, and some SSDs come with software and an accessory kit to do just that. If you only have a laptop, without an external connector, you are of course restricted to the USB method.

But it's recommended by some manufacturers (and much faster BTW) to mount the drive with the same type of channel as the boot drive. IOW, in almost every case, connect via a secondary SATA cable. The added benefit is that you clone the drive, turn off the machine, pull the SATA from the original and start the machine for a live test. Eezy, peezy.

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From: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> On Behalf Of John Colby
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 5:47 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>; Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] SSD Pricing

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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