so this video is going to be kind of a precursor to something I'm going to be working on shortly this is how to clone
a hard drive so I'm going to start with pressing the F lock cuz I have one of
those old Microsoft keyboards that actually has an FL lock button so I'm
pressing f11 going into my boot menu I have three drives attached to this
system the first one is a DVD drive okay inside there I have a copy of aonis uh
True Image 2010 and then over here I have the two drives that I want to clone
so I've got a raptor 160 GB hard drive
and that is going to be my source drive and then I'm going to be cloning that to
a Vertex 60 gig SSD so I'm going to
select the CD or dvd as my boot drive
and then it is going to keep going and
loading things won't take too long there we go
and we'll get right into the acronis true IM oh look at how my mouse is
behaving that's very strange I can't move side to side that's the weirdest
thing I've seen in a while so I'll use the keyboard and just do that there we
go problem solved uh basically what I'm doing this
for is we did a tech tips episode recently where we compared a hard drive
to an SSD and I had a couple complaints that the comparison wasn't exactly Fair
the drives that I used were the vertex limited edition from ocz which is the
fastest ocz vertex SSD on the market at this time
and then the drive I compared it against was the Western digital 1 tbte caviar
black which is a very respectable Drive By Any stretch of the imagination but I
had a lot of people asking me well what if we did it with a 10,000 K RPM Drive
what if you used a lower-end SSD so that's exactly the comparison I'm
prepping now I'm using that same image which I've already cloned to the Raptor
160 gig 10,000 RPM drive and then I'm going to load that onto a Vertex 60 gig
which is again a much lower-end SSD so we're going to go down to tools and
utilities click clone dis and we're
going to go manual mode then I'm going to select my source dis which is dis 2
the 149 Gigabyte Western Digital there we go click next and then
I'm going to select my target disc click next uh okay I'm overwriting a previous
version of the same image so it should be just fine I'm going to use
proportional and I'm going to proceed it takes about half an hour and then I will
be able to shoot my little quick episode comparing the vertex 60 against the WD
Raptor um 10,000 RPM Drive