SSD Cloning final size differs from original OS HDD. Question about firmware update.

[OrbitalshocK]

hey guys!

i have a WD blue 500gb drive for my OS and important software that i cloned to my crucial. i just noticed this morning (i started the clone when i left work last night) that 'Local Disk C:' states that 285gb are free of the 465gb available on the WD Blue drive, while the new SSD (crucial m500 480gb) says 276gb free of 447gb....i wanted to make sure this was okay? i figured if has something to do with the size of the entire partition but i wasn't sure.

my second question is about firmware.....and i obviously should've asked this question before cloning my hdd haha. Should i start over and update the ssd's firmware?? current firmware is mu03. i don't plan on doing any kind of disk encryption except bitlocker but even then i'm not sure if i'll end up using it.

 

[ubercake]

Drive capacity and cloning...
You're fine with regard to the disk space. You'd have a problem only if the original drive's used space was larger than the capacity of the new drive. The partition will resize to the max available on the new drive during the cloning process. The used space might appear larger on the old drive because of file fragmentation.

Firmware update...
You should always update a drive's firmware first when possible. The good thing is you have the original disk and it's intact. Any SSD's firmware update tool always has a disclaimer regarding data loss, but the worst case scenario is you update the SSD's firmware, you have data loss and just re-clone the drive. That being said, in most cases, the firmware update will go without a hitch.

 

[OrbitalshocK]

thanks for the reply uber. my concern wasnt about the overall size of the partition...i knew it would resize teh entire partition to fit on the smaller drive. what concerned me was that the hdd said i had 180gb of used space while the clone says 170gb of used space.