From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-05-05 15:12, J.O. Aho wrote:   
   > On 05/05/2025 12.21, CtrlAltDel wrote:   
   >> Hello everyone. I have several old spinner hard drives that I no longer   
   >> use and would like to know if there are any apps I can use to convert   
   >> them   
   >> to SSD's?   
   >>   
   >> Turning them into regular SSD's would be great, but I would prefer   
   >> them to   
   >> become NVMe solid state drives, if possible.   
   >   
   > 1. Check your motherboard if it supports M2 or if it only has SATA   
   > 2. Buy a SSD/NVMe of a size big enough to contain the content of the HDD   
   > 3. Use dd to clone the largest HDD to the SSD/NVMe   
   > 4. Use parted or fdisk to get the sizes of the partitions of the next HDD   
   > 5. Use parted/fdisk to add new partitions of the right size to the SSD/NVMe   
   > 6. Use dd to clone each partition from the HDD to the new partitions on   
   > the SSD/NVMe   
   > 7. jump back to point 4 and repeat the steps for the next HDD.   
   > 8. When no more HDD left, you are finished.   
   >   
   > Example:   
   > dd bs=4M conv=sync,noerror status=progress if=/dev/hdd-partition of=/   
   > dev/nvme-ssd-partition   
      
   Caveat: the logical block size has to be the same.   
      
   >   
   > store away your HDDs, keep them as backup.   
   >   
      
      
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