Any computer tech experts? Cloning disk drive???

[soundcontrol]

Cody, can I ask how much you paid for a 2TB SSD? Want one in my laptop, have 500MB now, always full. But they are more than my computer is worth where I shop.

[mjb765]

I was looking at Intel's site and they make it sound like I can use my raid 1 to upgrade the drives.  I might give it a try!

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/technologies/intel-rapid-storage-technology-intel-rst/000005837.html

That sounds like a good thing to try....let me know how it works out

[Cuda Cody]

I bought them off NewEgg and did not have a sale coupon or anything so I paid the $692 per Samsung 2 tb drive.  They sent me a coupon for $10 off a $100 or more on the next purchase so let me know if you want the discount code. 

Cody, can I ask how much you paid for a 2TB SSD? Want one in my laptop, have 500MB now, always full. But they are more than my computer is worth where I shop.

[soundcontrol]

I bought them off NewEgg and did not have a sale coupon or anything so I paid the $692 per Samsung 2 tb drive.  They sent me a coupon for $10 off a $100 or more on the next purchase so let me know if you want the discount code. 

Cody, can I ask how much you paid for a 2TB SSD? Want one in my laptop, have 500MB now, always full. But they are more than my computer is worth where I shop.

A good price. Thanks, but shipping would eat up any discounts. They are a bit more here though, about 900 for a 2,5" 2TB. I 'll have my wife get me one when she goes to visit her mother in L.A next time.

[Cuda Cody]

So far I'm up and running on 1 drive.  I'm following the steps on the Intel page and I let my Raid 1 do all the work.  Put the new bigger drive in and it did all the coping.  Removed the old smaller drive and now I need to increase the Disk Partition so it uses the bigger disk then I can add the 2nd and reset up the raid 1. 

The new SSD drive is SUPER FAST!!!!  It solved 100% of my slow problems and my computer is flying fast again.   

[soundcontrol]

Love SSD's, wish I could ony use those, I have them as system drives in most my computers. Way safer then spinning drives also.
But I have 68 large drives last time I counted so it would be to expensive.   

[Cuda Cody]

All done and I'm back to my full Raid 1 system but now with 2,000 gigs now of space.              The raid 1 did all the work for me.  Thanks @mjb765  for the suggestion of using the raid 1 set up to do all the work.     The Intel website made it easy to follow the steps too. 

Bought my laptop new in 2012 and it is fast like a rocket again with these SSD drives.  I can see having this Lenovo laptop workstation for another 4 to 5 years.  It's crazy to think a laptop computer will last 8 to 10 years and keep up with performance.   The W530 factory Intel Core i7 stock clocked at 3.7 and 32 gigs of ram is still keeping up with anything I throw at it.  And when I price out a new laptop workstation it's over $5,500 after tax to basically get about the same performance I have now.  Are times changing?  I remember when you would buy a computer and it was slow and outdated a year later. 

[mjb765]

Glad it worked out....I have to keep that Intel site for future reference.

Mike