Cloning/fresh install to SSD

[helpful55]

I am asking about cloning or fresh installs to an SSD and not addressing whether the starting OS is good. This is almost always for fairly recent and good working OS files. Personally I usually can easily do cloning or fresh installs so that is usually not an issue other than a little time.

Since SSD’s do not get fragmented like mech hd’s is there any reason why the cloning would not be properly written to the SSD locationwise? Does it not matter as all of the data is readily and as quickly readable however it is written to the drive? I am mostly talking about SSD to SSD, but addressing mech hd to SSD could be informative also. Should a mech hd OS be defragged before cloning? Thanks for any info/opinions.

 

[samuria]

You have to do a lot settings in 7 once cloned to get the best out of it How to Optimize SSD for Faster Performance (Windows Tweaks)

 

[Megahertz07]

A SSD has same logical structure than a HDD (Clusters, allocation tables) so it's treated by the cloning program the same way as a HDD.
If you don't clone cluster by cluster, the program reads the source (fragmented HDD) and writes to the SSD (un fragmented) so you don't need to un fragment the source but you should clean the drive (temporary files, browser cache, downloaded updates etc) before cloning.

 

[helpful55]

I already do some of that samuria, but I will look at the other items. And thanks Megahertz07 for the info.