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How do you clone a MBP Hard Drive?
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1514230"><p>Part of the reason startup off a clone take a lot longer than the boot drive is simple: you're using USB. It's SLOW. It's really slow. Compared to the SATA connection of your boot drive, watching-paint-dry slow. FW400 or FW800 is better, but still slower than the SATA connection. Only when you get to USB3 or TB or eSATA does the connection not form a huge part of the time difference.</p><p></p><p>The second factor may be the indexing as you've noted. But you can exclude a boot drive from being indexed by the clone drive, and should do so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1514230"] Part of the reason startup off a clone take a lot longer than the boot drive is simple: you're using USB. It's SLOW. It's really slow. Compared to the SATA connection of your boot drive, watching-paint-dry slow. FW400 or FW800 is better, but still slower than the SATA connection. Only when you get to USB3 or TB or eSATA does the connection not form a huge part of the time difference. The second factor may be the indexing as you've noted. But you can exclude a boot drive from being indexed by the clone drive, and should do so. [/QUOTE]
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