Sporting two hard drives (1 TB and 320 GB) in a dock with the Pi. Streaming with Infuse since the Pi can’t handle transcoding. It’s humble beginnings but I’m pretty excited.
Edit: here is the docking station.
They’re HDD’s I had laying around, because they were replaced by SSD’s. It’s annoying watching them just sit there collecting dust. So I bought this thingthis thing off Amazon. It’s pretty slick, for the price!
If the SSD is the same size, you could just use dd to clone the drive from a live CD/USB. Example: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb status=progress.
I also have used one of these to clone drives w/o a computer. Does 1:1 drive clones and it functions as a USB 3.0 to SATA adapter for 2x drives.
With any clone method, make absolutely sure you have your source and destination in the right places.
And yeah, like mentioned, CloneZilla also works.
Get one of these. It auto partitions any drive larger then the source and you can adjust the partition after to use the rest of the drive once cloned. It also clones without a PC. Read the reviews. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PTUQE4M/ref=ppx\_yo\_dt\_b\_asin\_title\_o07\_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
If your new drive is the same size or bigger than your old drive, you can just clone it. There is software that does it, but I prefer hardware cloners like this. It works as is for 3.5 and 2.5 drives. Ff you are getting a nvme style drive you'll also need to get a adapter.
There was no glue in mine, only tape. The issue I had was that Windows did not recognize the original Shield drive at all.
I ended up using the offline clone function on this dock from Amazon to do the clone, then installed the SSD. Booted right up first try!
I had a 5D and a 5C. Got so fed up with the exact type of issues you are taking about that I just sold both on eBay and went with OWC Thunderbays. The SoftRAID is so much better. Also it’s super standard. So if an enclosure ever died, I could literally put all the drives in several of these at once, and be back up and running. All the information needed to run the RAID 5 is on the drives.
assuming you're dealing with SATA SSDs...
https://www.amazon.com/WEme-Dual-Bay-External-Duplicator-Tool-Free/dp/B00PTUQE4M/
You can pretty much clone 2 drives at a time with this for $30. You could conceivably knock out all of the cloning with minimal effort.
Use copying software and a sata to usb adapter to transfer your OS and stuff to the ssd or a physical copying dock like this
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you need a dock, can link a video showing you how to do this. very easy
You're welcome!
There are a few guides on YouTube, like this one that are very concise and easy to follow.
You will need a USB enclosure for he drives for this method. I ended up buying this USB external drive bay that had onboard device cloning and used that function instead. Just plugged in the HDD into the source slot, empty 500gb SSD into the target, turning on the copy function, and waited it out.
Like u/mitancentauri said earlier, I suggest using an exact 500gb SSD to do this job correctly, or else you will need to do some work in the software to get smaller/larger drives working correctly.
Get yourself one of these. https://www.amazon.com/WEme-Dual-Bay-External-Duplicator-Tool-Free/dp/B00PTUQE4M
Clone the 128 to the 256. Plug it back in and it will be like your old PC but with larger drive. You may have to go into Disk Management and extend the partition. Also, google, Diskpart if you have trouble extending the partition.
Used a drive cloner. Cloned the drive it came with to a 860 Evo 500GB. Easy as that.
>How did you connect the PATA drive you your PC?
sorry for the late replay: with an converter from internal to external drive
Buy the exact same external drive. Remove the drives from their enclosures. Buy a dual bay docking station with cloning capability. Clone. Replace in enclosures.
It's a sector for sector exact duplicate.
Quality cloning docking station: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PTUQE4M/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
You can use hardware it software to acheive this.
You can search up a clonezilla tutorial like this one or Samsung's cloning software that comes with the EVO. Samsung software might be more user friendly for you never used it personally. A flash drive will be required.
For hardware you can purchase something like this where you would just click a button to clone. Just make sure your laptop and the SSD are 2.5" drives.
I used this dock's offline clone feature and it worked with no issues.