Question on ssd restore shortcut or not?

[philipma1957]

http://www.lindy-usa.com/usb-2-esata-docking-cloning-station-for-25-35-sata-hard-drives/42797.html

http://www.lindy-usa.com/lindyshop/manuals/42797V5.pdf

this more for a business user then a hobbyist. The piece of gear above can do a stand alone clone.

so rather then all the steps a mac user does to restore his ssd. If you buy 1 extra ssd and partition it for mac gui then load only a disc install of osx. then keep it on the side and use it to clone the empty space of all the factory settings to a used ssd is the used ssd reset to factory settings?

alternatively if you just partition the spare ssd with mac gui/hfs and when the time comes clone it to the used ssd.

I know you need one extra ssd but if you are running a business it would be a very simple method to restore. I wanted to put this in the how to restore a ssd to factory settings thread but could not find it.

It seems to me since the "new" ssd has just about zero info or just a basic osx the rest is still in Virgin (empty untouched) status from the factory. would a bit by bit cloner such as the linked one convey this to the used ssd?

 

[VirtualRain]

http://www.lindy-usa.com/usb-2-esata-docking-cloning-station-for-25-35-sata-hard-drives/42797.html

http://www.lindy-usa.com/lindyshop/manuals/42797V5.pdf

this more for a business user then a hobbyist. The piece of gear above can do a stand alone clone.

so rather then all the steps a mac user does to restore his ssd. If you buy 1 extra ssd and partition it for mac gui then load only a disc install of osx. then keep it on the side and use it to clone the empty space of all the factory settings to a used ssd is the used ssd reset to factory settings?

alternatively if you just partition the spare ssd with mac gui/hfs and when the time comes clone it to the used ssd.

I know you need one extra ssd but if you are running a business it would be a very simple method to restore. I wanted to put this in the how to restore a ssd to factory settings thread but could not find it.

It seems to me since the "new" ssd has just about zero info or just a basic osx the rest is still in Virgin (empty untouched) status from the factory. would a bit by bit cloner such as the linked one convey this to the used ssd?

If I understand correctly, you are proposing that you can clone a factory fresh SSD to a used SSD, thereby reconditioning it?

I suspect this idea is based on a technique some people use to perform (and maybe still do) to restore a mechanical drive to an operational state with minimal defragmentation.

But SSD NAND is not like fragmentation of files... and therefore this technique won't do anything to help a used SSD. Bit copying data from one SSD to another, does nothing to the state of the underlying NAND. Only a lower level NAND management process that operates beneath the data layer such as TRIM or the Secure Erase ATA command can effectively mark previously used NAND blocks as free.

 

[philipma1957]

I suspected as much it would be too easy a solution. Thanks