I think the strategy you employ is very reasonable. Setting up software and data how you want it takes time; having a cloned single drive provides a one-shot way to reset everything and that's good. (I clone drives as well.)
Related notes: a) the largest benefits of SSDs are speed and reliability. Your cloning setup dramatically decreases the importance / catastrophe of reliability. b) You can make all your other decisions and upgrade to SSDs once the size you want is readily available.
With regard to b) --- here is something I'm quite unclear on. If I have a computer with a hard drive, and if it can be opened for hard drive replacement, can I put an SSD in the same slot where I'd put a hard drive, or does the SSD require a completely different kind of connection?
If the connections are different, I don't see how b) will work. But if both kinds of drive fit in the same slot, then this seems like excellent advice.
This is an easy one. Yes, they are the same. Same SATA connectors, same size.
Internally, SSDs have a memory stick instead of all the spinning metal and moving parts, but the plastic housing is the same size as most 2.5" / laptop hard drives.
So it sounds like I can go ahead and buy any laptop with a hard drive --- as long as that drive is user-accessible --- and continue to live exactly as I've been living, until the 1T SSD's become readily available, then clone my hard drive onto an SSD, swap the SSD into the machine, and continue as before, except with more speed.
Here's my suggestion for something that would be close to what you're doing now. Buy a Dell or Lenovo laptop with a swappable media bay (eg this one). Buy the compatible media-bay-hard-drive adapter (eg this one). Buy as many 1 TB SSD internal drives as you like. Make the media bay drive your boot drive (this is the part that requires more research to confirm that it's possible). Clone and swap the drives out of the media bay as needed.
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a) the largest benefits of SSDs are speed and reliability. Your cloning setup dramatically decreases the importance / catastrophe of reliability.
b) You can make all your other decisions and upgrade to SSDs once the size you want is readily available.
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If the connections are different, I don't see how b) will work. But if both kinds of drive fit in the same slot, then this seems like excellent advice.
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Internally, SSDs have a memory stick instead of all the spinning metal and moving parts, but the plastic housing is the same size as most 2.5" / laptop hard drives.
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E1T0B-AM/dp/B00OBRFFAS/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1455987491&sr=1-1&keywords=1tb+ssd
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So it sounds like I can go ahead and buy any laptop with a hard drive --- as long as that drive is user-accessible --- and continue to live exactly as I've been living, until the 1T SSD's become readily available, then clone my hard drive onto an SSD, swap the SSD into the machine, and continue as before, except with more speed.
Yes?
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