By AOMEI / Last Updated October 17, 2019

About Crucial SSD

SSDs are the next evolution of PC storage, which runs faster, quieter, and cooler than the aging technology inside hard drive. In addition, they are more durable and more reliable than hard drive due to no moving parts. Among all kinds of SSDs, Crucial SSD is the one with reputation. It is a part of Micron -- one of the largest memory manufacturers in the world, and is developed since the earliest days of solid state drives. Crucial SSDs are popular in the market, such as Crucial MX200, Crucial MX500, Crucial BX100, etc.

Now you are planning to upgrade to the Crucial SSD to improve performance. As is known to all, it’s a time-consuming job to re-install the operating system as well as all other applications. It’s better to migrate data to Crucial SSD. Check the next part to get one free Crucial SSD migration software.

The Best Free Crucial SSD Clone Software

When it comes to migrating data to Crucial SSD, the Crucial SSD install kit may jump into your mind, which is available in the Crucial official site if you pay 24.99 dollars. But when there’s free software available, why not choose the free one? AOMEI Backupper Standard, the best free Crucial SSD clone software can help you migrate data in just a few clicks.

  • This free SSD cloning software can help you clone the entire hard drive to the Crucial SSD, including operating system, installed applications and all the other data you will never want to lose.

  • The “Sector by sector clone” function lets you clone only used parts to SSD, which make it possible to clone larger drive to smaller SSD, for example, clone 500GB HDD to 250GB SSD.

  • The “SSD Alignment” option can help accelerate the reading and writing speed for the Crucial SSD.

AOMEI Backupper Standard works well on Windows 10/8.1/8/7 computers and supports all Crucial SSDs including Crucial MX100, Crucial MX200, Crucial MX500, Crucial BX100, Crucial BX100, M500 Series, etc. With its user-friendly interface, you can complete the cloning job in only a few clicks. Keep reading to get the detailed steps about Crucial SSD clone.

How to Use Crucial Clone Software for Cloning?

Before you do the clone job, please connect Crucial SSD to your PC. Then we’ll show you how to clone HDD to SSD with AOMEI Backupper. Anyway, Crucial SSD clone software download is needed.

1. Download, install and launch AOMEI Backupper Standard. Select “Disk Clone” under “Clone” tab.

Disk Clone

Note: As you can see from the picture, it’s also possible to clone only system and individual partition. If you only want to migrate OS to Crucial SSD, you can upgrade to AOMEI Backupper Professional to make it.

2. Select HDD as source disk.

Select Source Disk

3. Select Crucial SSD as the destination disk.

Select Destination Disk

4. Tick "SSD Alignment" to accelerate the reading and writing speed of the destination SSD. Then, click “Start Clone”.

Start Clone

Tips:

  • “Edit Partitions” has three choices as Copy without resizing partitions, Add unused space to all partitions, and Manually adjust partition size ( last two options are available in AOMEI Backupper Professional).

  • “Sector by sector clone” will clone every sector on HDD no matter it is used or not, even blank or bad.

  • “SSD Alignment” guarantees the 4k alignment of SSD so to get the best SSD performance.

  • The Standard edition does not support cloning system disk between MBR and GPT.

Conclusion

To sum up, AOMEI Backupper Standard is a great & free Crucial SSD clone software you cannot miss. This is not only because it is without paying, but it has more and powerful utilities to fully satisfy you.

Besides, AOMEI Backupper Standard is not only a Crucial SSD migration software but also a comprehensive backup tool which offers system backup, disk backup, partition backup, and file backup. It can be the best assistant to help you ensure the data safe for your new Crucial SSD. Just try it now!