I do this process regurarly for the exact reason you are but im not worried about the ssd going bad i am more worried about windows. you cant really use it for storage at this point, technically you could but you wouldnt want to. plus theres no reason to leave it plugged in. unplug it and put it away in a safe place because if you leave it plugged in it can cause issues with windows getting confused. but i strongly suggest NOT leaving your hdd plugged in after it is cloned. to answer you other question, im not sure what you mean but if you clone your ssd to a hdd and install a new program to your ssd it will not be on your cloned hdd. Yes you would have 2 bootable hard drives/ssds to choose from. So if i had an internal hdd to clone to i would have a boot selection come up every time i boot my pc right? and i am assuming that to update that cloned drive I would have to do the entire clone again, it wont change updated files only? Hope this answers your question and sorry for all the randoms thoughts all in one. windows might defrag it but you shouldnt ever even have to boot to it except for cloning it to your ssd. just directly work from it and let it be. ssds do not defrag themselves since they are fast enough to not need it and the extra read write cycles are not worth it to defrag them. beware if you try to boot the cloned hdd, it will be extremely slow because of the massive about of file fragmentation. then if you ever have a problem with windows you have a fresh install copy with no problems ready to clone back to your ssd. there is no need to burn anything to disk or anything like that as dr_jre suggests. the source drive will be cloned to the target drive and after the process the target drive will be a bootable copy of your ssd. hdclone asks you for a source drive and a target drive. The easiest way to do this is to use a program like hdclone.
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