Cloning process stops when clone bar starts
Attempting to replace 250GB HD (contents about 170GB) with 240GB SSD (Crucial BX200). After restart, bar appears stating preparing to clone. Then changes to clone. After about 4 minutes screen goes blank and windows restarts and program stops. The HD has a recovery partition (D drive) of about 15GB. Have tried with skipping the D drive w/o success. SSD is recognized by computer and Acronis. SSD does not show up as a drive on "Computer" window but shows up in Device list along with the HD drive. Any suggestions.


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There are a lot of posts with people using the new Crucials and finding them to be faulty - no just here, but on the web. If you're able to return and get a Samsung Evo or something else, I'd try swapping out the drive while you still can. The BX series is their "Low-end" product and they may have cut some corners or have a faulty batch that made it to market. I'd avoid Kingston as well if you can - lot's of bait and switch (used good parts for the original models, then used inferior parts that have nowhewre the same performance, but still sell them as being the same thing).
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/116266#comment-347504
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This may explain the poor performance on the BX series... not good for large file writes due to using a seperate storage partition for cache which is undersized - kind of like a hybrid drive except it's all non-mechanical, but still suffers from hybrid limitations with large file transfers because of the low available cache:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3000913/storage/crucial-bx200-ssd-review…
Though it's extremely affordable, the BX200 suffers the worst sustained write performance of any SSD we've ever tested.
The BX200’s sustained write performance is even worse than that of the OCZ Trion andToshiba's Q300, two drives I’ve already warned users about.
A little cache
The BX200 is actually two drives in one: a very small and fast one that uses DRAM and SLC (single-level cell) memory, and another much larger and slower drive using TLC. In the BX200’s case, that TLC can only write data to its cells at about 80MBps. No, that’s not a typo. But because of that small cache drive, the BX200 acts just like a high-end SSD most of the time.
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Thanks for the replies. I am using a 2.5 inch SATA to USB connector. I tend to agree that the problem may be the Crucial SSD. After your coments I will probably return it and opt for another brand.
Thanks!
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