Upgrading a hard disk – To repave or to migrate, that is the question

I recently changed my laptop hard disk from the stock 250GB 5400 drive to a 320GB 7200 drive.  And no, I didn’t bought a SSD drive because the cost is way too much right now.  At $70, my upgrade was a lot cheaper than a SSD drive.  Maybe next year.

When changing a system main hard drive, one must ask himself: To repave or to migrate, that is the question. 

I choose to migrate so I went to the Acronis Website to take a look at their product line.  They have a few products that could do the job.  One being Acronis Migrate Easy 7.0 and the other being Acronis True Image Home 2010.  Since True Image was just $10 more then Migrate Easy, I bought True Image.

I inserted my new hard drive in a 2.5” USB enclosure, and started the migration process.  Once the data copied, I switched the drives.  The process went very smoothly and without hiccups.  Highly recommended.

BTW, Acronis offers free trials so I guess that nothing can stop you from “testing” a migration  ;-)

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  • Looks like you got everything all figured out and made the right decision with your computer hard drive upgrade. You were right not to buy the SSD drive. They are not affordable yet and it will be a year or two before that starts to happen with the lower size models.

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