What software to use to clone a SSD

I have a Corsair GS 480gb SSD that I really need to clone.

I have never cloned a SSD before, what is a good software to use to clone it.

And I will need the same type of SSD? When I did it with a normal HD I cloned a 500gb HD into a 1tb just fine, even different manufacturer of hard drive.

This is for a Lenovo y410p that will be a business laptop and small gaming laptop, I am running Windows 7 64 bit.

 

You don't need to be using the same type of SSD.

Personally, I use Clonezilla. It's free, the instructions are easy to follow and has worked well for me.

Obviously, YMMV.

 

Clonezilla will work as long as the destination drive is larger than the source drive. Macrium Reflect is also a very nice option.

 

Thank you guys for both options.

My normal HD crashed last week, so I sent $850 to have it recovered but I wont know anything for 6 weeks.
I almost passed out when it crashed. I lost so many business info. But I was lucky to recover the most up to date info. But I still need some older info on there. This business is my life and full time job.

I will look into the software. I'll do a test run on another drive.

 

If it's for your business, you may want into a more robust backup solution including backup to an external device, backup to cloud storage and backups to external media that also happens to be off site. There are businesses that offer these kind of solutions, however, whether you have and want to spend the money for that is entirely up to you.

Make sure to have at least some for of off site backup in case something like a fire happens.

 

I would need to clone the entire drive, because I would need to save the cookies and "user accounts". I have over 35 user accounts on the business laptop. So a cloud back up would not do. A weekly backup onsite is more of the tune.

 

If you have software that allows for incremental system image backups, I don't see why storing backups on the cloud as well as on site would be a problem. You could use something like AWS | Amazon Glacier - Online Backup Services & Cloud Backup Solutions to store less frequent backups, but if both your computer and the physical media where the backup is get destroyed, you'd still be able to get the data back. Not immediately, but it'd still be recoverable.

I'm not saying that you have to have a cloud backup, I,m just saying that it may be more feasible than you may think.

 

I didnt know that there was software out there that can clone certain sections like that. I will look into that link.

 

Amazon glacier is for cheap long term storage, I don't know if they offer their own backup solution on top of storage (they very well may since it's part of amazon webservice), but software like Acronis offer ways to backup changes rather than having to make a new image each time: Incremental backup vs differential backup: difference and benefits of each one, crashplan probably offers something similar as well and there are other cloud backup services aimed at businesses. Microsoft Azure may also be a potential backup solution. You'll have to dig around to find the one best suited to your needs should you decide to go for cloud backups, but there are plenty of options to choose from. Again, it all depends on how critical and how much the data is worth.

Free solutions are nice because they're free, but if you go for paid versions or more feature reach backup software, then you usually have more convenient backup options.

 

Macrium Reflect Free Edition. Works like a charm.

 

I've used Acronis before but nowadays, I just do a clean install..