Why Clone your Mac data before upgrading your drive

What if you lose all your important files while upgrading to new drive or switching to another Mac. So, its necessary to clone your entire Mac drive before doing any upgradation. Cloning refers to creating an exact copy or replica of your hard drive. Using bootable clone of your Mac drive you can boot your Mac in case your drive fail to boot or crashed.

Now, we will discuss various reasons of making clone and image of Mac before going through any upgradation process. Yes, you can also create image of your Mac drive and can restore it in future.

Cloning Mac drive is needed in following situations:-

• When Switching to another Mac machine
• While migrating Mac data to another drive
• While upgrading hard drive and swaping old drive with new one.

Problem comes when you have lots of data such as pictures, audio and video files, software, movies etc, documents, pdf files etc on your current hard drive. So,in these situations also you need to upgrade your drive to a new and faster like SSD with larger storage capacity.

Why you need to Clone your Mac:
Now, if you decide to replace or upgrade your Mac drive in order to expand its current storage capacity and performance.Cloning is the best approach that you should do to accomplish everything efficiently without worrying for the risk of losing data. It lets you create a copy of your old drive to some external drive and could help you to test applications before copying them to new drive.

However, some other prominent reasons to clone mac hard drive are discussed below:

Hard Drive corruption and Failure
If you notice that your hard drive produces repeatedly clicking noises while booting your Mac and also at the time of working on it. Such behaviour indicates that it might crash or fail to make all the data totally inaccessible. So, in such cases, cloning becomes a paramount precautionary step to protect your data.

Therefore, you should create clone of your hard drive and restore it on a new hard drive.

Less free space available
Our habit of storing everything in drive, squeezes the amount of space in few months and reduces the available resources for processes. It brings our Mac to a slower pace.

The efficiency of a machine, either its a Mac or a PC, is inversely proportional to the amount of data stored in it. So,you can't get fast performance unless have more than 20% free space on your drive. So, you should move to some larger drive and maintain adequate amount of free space.

In this situation, you should clone your current hard drive so that you can have a backup of your data if you needed anytime.

Now, come to create bootable clone of your drive using third party application like Stellar Drive Clone. It enables you to create bootable clone of your Mac disk that helps you to boot your Mac when your drive crash. It support to SSD also.