I’ve got an otherwise spare MC200 in my office at work and have been wondering about swapping in an SSD for the hard drive. I’ve cloned the HD in an MC200 before and swapped to a 1TB drive from the original 500 GB drive, keeping the original drive as a back up (I have no nefarious intentions). The MC200 in my office is the later version that came with a 1TB drive from new so the cloning process should be one or two steps easier (not having to extend partitions into the unassigned part of the new disc?)

I have a couple of questions, partly for simplicity of retaining a back up for either MC200, does anybody know if the software on the earlier and later units is the same? Or would I need to retain both original hard drives as back up for each? If not I can reuse the 1TB from this one for an old laptop I’m giving to the grand-children and just retain the original ones 500GB disc for a disc failure recovery on either.

The other question is do we know what the maximum size HD that will work in an MC200? If the price of the 2TB drops like the bargain 1TB unit I just picked up it would be the logical next step....

Mods if either question oversteps any of the boards rules please feel free to delete and put me right.

Many thanks

Richard