Wed Nov 27, 2019 4:21 pm
I think it's worth doing. You should consider making the SSD your main (boot) drive. As long as the total occupied space on you HDD doesn't exceed 500 Gb, the cloning program will allow to to clone it as a system disk.
I recently replaced 1 Tb hard drivers on my Hauptwerk PC with 250 Gb Samsung 860 EVO drives.It was a very simple process, using the data migration utility. Any cloning program that allows you to clone a system disk will allow you to substitute the SSD as the main drive, and you can keep the HDD as a backup. In the event of a disk failure (or a failed Windows upgrade, which I recently experienced), you can just changed the boot order in the bios and boot from the spare drive.
The key question is whether 500 Gb is enough for your main drive to store your operating system and all the samples. I had only used up 128 Gb on my 1 TB drive, so I still have plenty of room left for more sample sets.
So now I have two identical SSDs, both of which are capable of booting up. Whenever I do a (successful) Windows update, add a sample set, or modify my Hauptwerk settings, I re-clone the main drive to the backup. It only takes about 20 minutes. Belt and suspenders.
Ray