It’s going from one SSD to another SSD. I use Acronis, and I double check that the partition is properly aligned using gparted.

I’m having someone ‘scream’ at me for not doing a fresh OS install, and I’m transferring malware from one drive to another, and registry errors, etc, etc, and a cloned drive ‘won’t run at optimal speeds’.

My original drive is fine. It’s just too small, and whatever issues it may or may not have, it works fine for me.

I don’t want to reinstall all my old programs just for the assurance that ‘everything runs fresh’, even though I’ve done malware scans, and everything seems fine.