Source: http://www.adata.com/us/feature/446
One the biggest impacts of Blockchain on my operations was to find out I was obsolete in terms on hardware:
First, I replaced my CD Drive by an SSD ADATA SU800 of 128GB in order to reduced the Data Volume on my C Drive for future replacement by another SSD, as well as have a back up for my data in case Drive C blows up. That was about 8 months ago.
Now, on December 24 2017, as a gift to myself on this christmas, I was able to replace my C Hard Disk drive for a an SSD ADATA SU 900 of 256 BG
Total investment: About 20 Steeems on SU800 and about 10 SBD for an increase performance of my system, that although it was a first generation 2012 i5 ASUS K52J machine, today is obsolete. But I have not been able to replace. Hope Steemit will provide for such big needed change. I am fan of ASUS Machines. Mine is corrently 6 years old under heavy usage and still performing. Only some overheating due to thermal paste not been never replace.
But today, Cloning of the C Drive Hard Disk was not easy task, mainly due to the process of getting the right acronis True Image HD Software:
When you get your SU900, you go to http://www.adata.com/en/support/login/
There your headache start as the Adata Web Page gives you 2 options: 1) Create a New Account Now or Login using Facebook. I choose option 1, and could never be able to create account. I had to use Facebook login which it did work
But my headache was yet to start: First you register your product, type, model & EAN/UPC Code. Once you register, you can Acronis info, but the software they will give Acronis True image HD 2013 is obsolete. At least you get an Acronis Software Key of 16 characters. No where you get a link for download. In my case I just google it and found http://www.adata.com/us/ss/software-5/ which it did contain the Acronis True image HD 2013. I download the thing, and installed, and when I was going to activate the Software ask me for my licence. The Key given by ADATA is not a licence. I went to register into Acronis, and there I saw a field for inputing the ADATA KEY, then I was registered and they send me the Serial Licence KEY
But when I try to use it in the Acronis True image HD 2013 it didn´t work. I google the problem and found several people with the same problem: https://forum.acronis.com/forum/acronis-true-image-home-forum-older-versions/product-activation-problem
After thinking for a while, then I decided to unistall and delete Acronis True image HD 2013 against recomendations for ADATA Website. I went to download and install Acronis True image HD 2015 disk migration tool from http://www.adata.com/us/ss/software-5/
After installation of the Acronis True image HD 2015 I could activate using the 64 Serial KEY Given by Acronis, and then I could start the process of cloning which went pretty straight forward.