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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1882484" data-attributes="member: 396914">Yes, this is the end of that era. No matter what SD! or CCC do, the approach that the System-on-a-chip (SoC) as designed by Apple takes has the effect of making a &quot;drive&quot; failure into a full on system failure. If the SSD part of the M1 SoC dies, it won't boot. And for me, that was the value of a bootable clone. Just as your wife experienced, to be able to run from an external while waiting for a replacement drive to arrive. But if the SoC won't/can't run with a failure of the chip, then a clone is of lower value. Yes, there are some situations were a clone would maybe be handy (System corrupted, boot from external, restore the internal to recover it, for example), but you can do the same thing with TM now, so that value is minimal. Now, if Apple changes the approach to decouple the memory used for the &quot;drive&quot; from the rest of the SoC, then maybe clones will return to better value. But that decoupling could well impact the overall performance of the SoC, a sacrifice Apple is unlikely to be willing to make. We'll see when the next &quot;M&quot; system is released. I'm not expecting much real change in architecture. I think cloning is dying as a valuable approach to backup.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1882484, member: 396914"] Yes, this is the end of that era. No matter what SD! or CCC do, the approach that the System-on-a-chip (SoC) as designed by Apple takes has the effect of making a "drive" failure into a full on system failure. If the SSD part of the M1 SoC dies, it won't boot. And for me, that was the value of a bootable clone. Just as your wife experienced, to be able to run from an external while waiting for a replacement drive to arrive. But if the SoC won't/can't run with a failure of the chip, then a clone is of lower value. Yes, there are some situations were a clone would maybe be handy (System corrupted, boot from external, restore the internal to recover it, for example), but you can do the same thing with TM now, so that value is minimal. Now, if Apple changes the approach to decouple the memory used for the "drive" from the rest of the SoC, then maybe clones will return to better value. But that decoupling could well impact the overall performance of the SoC, a sacrifice Apple is unlikely to be willing to make. We'll see when the next "M" system is released. I'm not expecting much real change in architecture. I think cloning is dying as a valuable approach to backup. [/QUOTE]

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