Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Just cloned my 5400 HD to a Crucial SSD because I was getting plenty of 'Disk too Slow' warnings which were really slowing me down in Logic 9 running in Lion.
Does the community have any views on the efficacy of cloning? (I used CCC).
Is it far better to clean install everything? Is cloning only a last resort safety-net?
If the clone works, then nothing is wrong. Cloning is simply a special way of copying one drive to another. If the drive you clone contains any file corruption, then a clone will contain the same corrupted files. A clean install simply starts from scratch. However, a clean install only installs an operating system. If your files are corrupted and you restore them to the newly installed drive, then the same problems would be present.
Cloning is not a "last resort" or a "safety net".
I've always cloned the InstallESD.dmg to the flash drive using Disk Utility. I do it straight from inside the Installer application. In fact I've been cloning installers like this ever since OS X could clone itself in Disk Utility. Note that I started with 10.0.0 when it was first released.
The objective here was not to clean house but to transfer a pretty recent and well-behaved install to a better drive than a 5400, so, from what I've learned above I'm thinking maybe I can work with the clone.
Thankz to all
Byz
Advice on cloning
