Check this guide and learn how to effectively clone your HDD onto a new SSD. Enjoy the fast bootups and quick launch apps from the SSD.

How to Connect/Install A Hard Drive to Your Computer After deciding on a proper disk cloning tool, the next step is to connect the new SSD or HDD to your computer, which may vary based on your device.

The original partition on the SSD was a dd copy from the old HDD a year ago so I strongly suspect a partition alignment issue that the newer versions of Disk Utility take into account when ...