

This procedure risks its drive of losing data. It is late when you found nothing exists on your computer. Prepare a SATA-to-USB cable to connect SSD with laptop. This is not necessary step for PC but a must if you're using a laptop. Things become a little more difficult, extract old one and fit in new one, sounds a time-consuming task. If you’re dealing with laptop like Mac, you gotta think before action. Because the whole procedure involves the original drive, the new SSD, and possibility of missing data. In consideration of such complex process, there are some things need to be fully prepared. Part 2: To-do List Before Moving OS to New SSD Besides that, you can also benefit a lot more from some super powerful features such as low noise, less power consumption, durable and so on. With SSD, computer achieves around 550MB/s read and 520MB/s write speeds, in comparison with lower speed around 150MB/s. Since you know differences between HDD and SSD, SSD is usually treated as a good disk to store OS for it is faster and more power-efficient. It has no moving parts and smaller capacity than HDD, but it is indeed faster than HDD. However, SSD, newly developed storage technology, is usually applied to modern computer.

Operating system and all applications are stored on that. HDD, hard drive disk, a conventional disk applied to the majority of PC and some Macs. Before that, let’s see differences between HDD and SSD. Part 1: Why You Want to Transfer OS to SSD?Īs what has been talked about before, you consider to copy OS from HDD to SSD or to larger SSD.
