2 hours ago
Hello! New user here with a perplexing question. My PC has a speedy Samsung 9100 4TB nvme SSD C: drive and I cloned it to nice new Micron Crucial X10 external USB SSD drive. I did a disk to disk clone and pretty much kept all the defaults when stepping through the process. The drive has just under 1 TB of data on it and the first time I cloned the drive it took about 20 mins which was basically what I was expecting based on how much data was on the drive and the fact it was going from SSD to SSD.
But the second time and now the third time I cloned the drive, which is running right now, it is taking just over 5 hours, which I definitely was NOT expecting! And it is actually slightly less data being cloned now because the first time there was a Windows.old folder on the c: drive but I removed it after the first clone and nothing big has been installed since then. There were never any errors encountered and the resulting cloned drive after examination looked perfectly normal every time.
So the question remains why the heck is it taking so long now compared to that first clone? Before I start the clone process I make sure to shut off all the components of my anti-virius software so that it doesn't interfere and that's about it, I just let it do its thing. As I said I basically leave the defaults so I don't select sector by sector or any other options that would slow down the process. And check me if I'm wrong but shouldn't it be closer to 20 mins for a clone this size and SSD to SSD as opposed to 5 hours?
Any insight on what might be causing the slowdown or options I might be missing, etc. would be appreciated. It's not the end of the world because I do end up with a valid clone but it sure would be nice to figure out what is happening here.
Thanks, Wayne
But the second time and now the third time I cloned the drive, which is running right now, it is taking just over 5 hours, which I definitely was NOT expecting! And it is actually slightly less data being cloned now because the first time there was a Windows.old folder on the c: drive but I removed it after the first clone and nothing big has been installed since then. There were never any errors encountered and the resulting cloned drive after examination looked perfectly normal every time.
So the question remains why the heck is it taking so long now compared to that first clone? Before I start the clone process I make sure to shut off all the components of my anti-virius software so that it doesn't interfere and that's about it, I just let it do its thing. As I said I basically leave the defaults so I don't select sector by sector or any other options that would slow down the process. And check me if I'm wrong but shouldn't it be closer to 20 mins for a clone this size and SSD to SSD as opposed to 5 hours?
Any insight on what might be causing the slowdown or options I might be missing, etc. would be appreciated. It's not the end of the world because I do end up with a valid clone but it sure would be nice to figure out what is happening here.
Thanks, Wayne
