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capn00

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Aug 10, 2007
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I haven't been following the the old thread on dual drive options in quite a while, but I have been running two drives for about a year and a half. I am finally to the point where I want to upgrade the data drive.

What is the easiest option; clone data drive to new drive in external enclosure? Time Machine restore?

I have, and plan to keep, all of the operating system and application files on the SSD currently in place, just need to update the data drive to a 750 GB.

Sorry if this question has already been answered several (hundred) times...
 
the easiest is to use carbon copy cloner if you can attach the new drive at the same time

otherwise you could use something like clonezilla to clone disk to disk or disk to image and then image to disk

time machine is the slowest option but will work perfectly as well
 
You can just copy/paste data. When I did the data swap, I used Disk Utility to "Restore" from the original disk to the new disk. It worked fine, but took around 6 hours for 600GB. Copy/paste would probably be a lot faster.
 
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