I was the last person on a SATA drive in my house -- because I had so many ãvideos and MP3s, I didn't want to pay for a 1TB or larger SSD. I bought a ãSynology NAS, which I've talked about before, and moved my media to the RAID ãarray on the NAS - which lets me stream media from DLNA devices in the house ãand puts the media on a more resilient drive.ããAfter moving the media, I defragged the drive and got everything moved to ãthe front of the disk, thinking I might make a Linux partition on it. I ãended up with 190GB on a 3TB drive.ããI had a 480GB SSD drive in an old laptop, and thought instead I'd shrink the ãSATA partition then clone it to the SSD.ããI found Macrium Reflect, it's a free bit of disk cloning software.ãã*Without* shrinking the source partition and without having to boot into a ãspecial environment, I was able to make the SSD bootable and create a ãpartition the size of the SSD with the data from the 3TB partition. Very ãcool having one less (potentially data-destructive) step to moving data.ãããã... Only a part, not the wholeã--- MultiMail/DOS v0.52ã þ Synchronet þ .: realitycheckbbs.org :: scientia potentia est :.ã

Re: Shout out to Macriumã By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Thu Sep 23 2021 07:10 amãã PF> I was the last person on a SATA drive in my house -- because I had so manyã PF> videos and MP3s, I didn't want to pay for a 1TB or larger SSD. I bought a ããMany SSDs have a SATA interface.. Are you thinking of SATA platter drives vs. m.2 SSDs?ããNightfoxãã---ã þ Synchronet þ Digital Distortion: digitaldistortionbbs.comã

Re: Shout out to Macriumã By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Sep 23 2021 01:56 pmããPF>> I was the last person on a SATA drive in my house -- because I had soãPF>> many videos and MP3s, I didn't want to pay for a 1TB or larger SSD. IãPF>> bought a ããNi> Many SSDs have a SATA interface.. Are you thinking of SATA platter drivesãNi> vs. m.2 SSDs? ããYes, I meant to say "Spinning Rust". :)ãã---ã þ Synchronet þ .: realitycheckbbs.org :: scientia potentia est :.ã