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M.2 PCIe 16Gb/s, 256MB Cache, 4x PCIe 2.0

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Hello,
I want to buy the M.2 Samsung MZHPU128HCGM-0000 XP941
question:
Can I clone my SSD-Drive C: of this M.2 ?? and make this as boot-drive
Can I make a boot-Image from this M.2 drive ??

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Great question, I cannot answer this but I hope someone here can as I would like to know this myself.

Cloning may or may not work. You can always do it by backup up the boot drive and restoring it to the M2.

Booting would depend on how you attach the M2 to the motherboard. A few newer boards have an M2 slot built in. You would not be able to boot that. If you use a PCIe adapter card, you may be able to boot depending on the motherboard and adapter card. Although, I would be skeptical about that. I would check with the motherboard OEM to see what they say.

Paul,

My thoughts exactly! At some point someone is bound to try this, maybe not just yet.

Hello,
my ASUS Board X99-S can booting from M.2 Samsung 941. I have Information from ASUS and many People write it's possible.
If I understanding your answer you cannot say I can cloning or not.

You understand correctly. We have no idea if cloning with TI 2015 will work.

Here is a link to an older post for TI 2014 in which the OP attempted a Restore operation to an M2 drive which failed to boot. Not the same thing as a Clone but it did fail. I offered a suggested solution but the OP never responded if that worked. This link may not help you then again......

https://forum.acronis.com/forum/83342

Several years later. I have an Asus Rampage V Extreme with a bootable M.2 installed on mobo. It is a Samsung 950Pro. My next move is to find a way to clone it!

Bob

Several years later. I have an Asus Rampage V Extreme with a bootable M.2 installed on mobo. It is a Samsung 950Pro. My next move is to find a way to clone it!

Bob

Sorry about duplication