T420 and Samsung EVO 850 250GB

[thinkpadcollection]

This was one of last upgrades to the T420 and EVO was on sale today and had gift card to spend on. Used samsung's utility to clone the 500GB HGST spinner to 250GB SSD. Worked first try. Also SSD is cool as cucumber around 28C vs 38C for a 500GB HGST.

So far no problem and much better on performance.

Cheers, thinkpadcollection

[SkiBunny]

To successfully clone to that EVO, did you have to disable Windows from making restore points and/or have to delete all existing restore points? (assuming it's Win7)

[thinkpadcollection]

Samsung's own clone utility captured everything in place, key is nothing else are open during clone, utility even mentioned that anything are open will not be cloned.

Cheers, thinkpadcollection

[GACrabill]

To successfully clone to that EVO, did you have to disable Windows from making restore points and/or have to delete all existing restore points? (assuming it's Win7)

Samsung's own clone utility captured everything in place, key is nothing else are open during clone, utility even mentioned that anything are open will not be cloned.

Whenever I clone (HDD-to-HDD, HDD-to-SSD, SSD-to-HDD, or SSD-to-SSD), I always check 'System Protection -> Protection Settings' ... since it often lists the old drive as 'On' and 'Missing' ... and it lists the new drive as 'Off'. I then set the old drive to 'Off' and 'Configure' the System Restore point settings to be what I want for the new drive, and then create an initial Restore Point on the new drive.

[Ezhik]

I have an EVO 850 as well. I run OS X on my T420, and used SuperDuper! to clone the drive. Worked pretty well, IIRC I only needed to re-install Clover and I was all set.