However, does the source drive being a hybrid introduce any obstacles or complications in the cloning? (1) Can I clone the hybrid drive to the 256GB SSD? (The 2TB hybrid drive has only about 30GB used on it, so space shouldn’t be a problem on the 256GB drive, right?) I’ve successfully cloned a 512GB hard drive to a 512GB SSD for my laptop using Mini-Tools Partition Wizard, and I’d like to use that program again if possible. I have zero experience with hybrid drives, so before I do anything foolish, I’m asking for help with the following questions: This is apparently a Seagate hybrid hard drive with a 32GB internal solid state cache (though I can’t find much of anything about this model online). To my surprise when I booted the new machine, it actually has only a single drive, identified by Device Manager as a ST2000DM001-1ER. My plan was to replace the 32GB SSD (by cloning it) with a 256GB SSD, which would then be my system+apps drive I would then use the 2TB hard drive solely as a data drive. The description of the system’s hard drive on the website read “2TB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive 6.0 Gb/s + 32GB SSD”, which I took to mean two separate drives, namely, a 32GB SSD (which I assumed would hold Windows and possibly a few other programs) and a 2TB hard drive (for everything else). I just bought from the Costco website a new Dell XPS 8700 with Windows 8.1 and 16GB of RAM. For the past decade, I’ve gotten many useful tips and solutions from the Lounge, but my search didn’t find anything on my current problem, so here I am.
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