Ssd's and reflect

I'm finally jumping on the ssd bandwagon and I ordered a Samsung 840 512 gb ssd.
I know most people would have me do a clean install but I don't want to go through all that and I've actually forgotten how to install some of my drivers, passwords, etc.
So I plan to clone my hdd thru marcium reflect free.
Two questions :
I have two partitions on my hdd-both windows . Is it 'safe' to clone both these partitions ti the ssd without any performance issues?

Will marcium reflect align the ssd or do I have to do that with another program?

Tia.

Sent from a Galaxy far, far away

 

I used and would recommend HDClone - the free version is slow, but it cloned HDD to HDD and HDD to SSD without issues when I bought my SSDs and was testing them. I don't know about performance issues, maybe having a 4K or 512byte alignment has different effect on cloning to SSD - I installed Windows from scratch on the SSDs later on, but from benchmarks and in normal use, the cloned SSD was a lot faster.

 

Whenever you clone a drive instead of installing from scratch, there will always be a possibility of a misaligned SSD. After cloning, you can check alignment by following the instructions here: Ensuring 4K alignment on SSDs in Windows 7 | The NEZzen.net Blog
If not aligned correctly, you can use a number of alignment tools available online to fix the issue.

 

Thanks for all your answers.
Another question, when I clone the ssd and boot it up for the first time, will windows 7 detect that it's an ssd and turn on/off all relevant features ie trim, defragmenting, etc.?

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Windows should detect that it's a SSD, but if it doesn't, you can always turn defrag off yourself and re-run WEI and then check for TRIM. There was a thread about checking whether TRIM was enabled on a SSD a while ago and if I recall correctly, someone suggested a program that writes data, deletes it, send the TRIM command and then check whether it went through to the SSD. I don't remember the name though.