Cloning Vs. Fresh Install

[Chocolate Baby]

When I first got my Macbook Pro I cloned a 250Gb in the result of a major crash. Since then it has been sitting in a 2.5 enclosure in my drawer. I never imagined that I would use as my primary drive, it was just an afterthought. I wanted to switch to a larger drive and I was going to clone it to save time. Has anyone run into issues with a clone as their primary drive? In short is a cloned drive going perform the same as a fresh install?

 

[maflynn]

Personally I go the fresh install route, mostly so I can be sure that my ~/Library and /Library folders are fairly clean. Additionally, if there's some issues with my installation, then those issues will be reintroduced with the cloning option.

 

[Wicked1]

Personally I go the fresh install route, mostly so I can be sure that my ~/Library and /Library folders are fairly clean. Additionally, if there's some issues with my installation, then those issues will be reintroduced with the cloning option.

I second that, I always do a fresh install even though it is a little time consuming.


I do have one question a little off the path here, how are the new 13 uMBP with the 2.53/4/250 notebooks, I see a few here with them, and I am wondering if the issues with the Sata II 1.5GB issues were corrected and how is the Audio on the new one since it only has one port

 

[christurbo]

Your boot files will be re written in a different order/format when you clone.

This will make boot up time longer.

This can be cured with an archive + install.