Re: SSD
A quick calculation shows that, at optimal speed of 480Mbps over USB2, a 500GB hard disk is going to take around 2.5 hours to copy over. In reality, you could be looking at closer to 100MBps on a laptop USB port, so somewhere North of 11 hours. Doable if you REALLY need to clone that drive, and have a good book to read, but a reinstall onto the clean SSD will probably be quicker and also give the opportunity to remove cruft and make sure all patches are installed.
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