The Best Western Digital NVME Cloning Software

What is the Western Digital NVME Drive?

Western Digital (WD) is one of the largest hard disk manufacturers in the world, and their internal and external disks are widely used in many popular computer brands such as HP, Acer, etc., both in laptops and PCs. Western Digital NVME drives are quite popular among users.

NVMe is a logical device interface specification. It is a bus transmission protocol specification based on a device logic interface similar to AHCI, and is used to access non-volatile memory media attached through the PCI Express (PCIe) bus, although the PCIe bus protocol is not necessarily required in theory. NVME SSD has the advantages of low power consumption, low latency and high compatibility.

Why Need the Western Digital NVME Cloning Software?

After understanding what a Western digital NVME drive is, many people need professional and safe disk cloning software when they want to clone a WD solid-state drive. In the following situations, you need to use disk cloning software to clone WD SSD.

• Backup disk data: SSD failure or aging will cause a series of problems, the most serious of which is data loss. So, if you have a lot of important data on your Western Digital HDD/SSD, please move it to another safe place and do a thorough data backup. Once you have created a comprehensive backup of your data, you will never have to worry about data loss as you can always access the backup data.
• Hard drive upgrade: Solid State Drives are known to outperform HDDs in terms of speed and performance. To make your computer perform better, you may wish to replace your old WD hard drive with a new SSD, or upgrade your small WD hard drive to a larger SSD.

The Best Western Digital NVME Cloning Software

Next, this article will introduce you the best Western digital NVME cloning software - AOMEI Backupper Professional. Cloning a disk means copying everything on one disk, including the operating system, configuration settings, applications, and personal data, to another drive that you want. AOMEI Backupper is an all-in-one disk cloning software. It has the following powerful functions.

• Intelligent Clone: It runs Intelligent Clone by default to help you clone a larger drive to a smaller drive, as long as the smaller drive can store all the data of the larger disk.
• Cloned disk or partition: You can clone not only disks but also partitions/volumes without even booting Windows.
• SSD Alignment: It uses 4K partition alignment technology to improve the performance of SSD disks.
• Multiple SSDs: It supports almost all SSDs, including WD SSD, Samsung SSD, HP SSD, Acer SSD, etc.

Download and install AOMEI Backupper Professional. Since the cloning process will erase all data, it is recommended that you backup files in advance. If you are a Windows Server user, you can pick AOMEI Backupper Server.

Step 1. Open AOMEI Backupper Professional, and click Clone > Disk Clone.

Step 2. Select the Western Digital NVME SSD as the source disk. Then click Next.

Step 3. Select the other drive as the destination disk. Then click Next.

Step 4.  Check SSD Alignment to accelerate the writing and reading speed of your Western Digital NVME SSD. Confirm your operations and then click Start Clone.

Notes:

• Sector by sector clone: You can enable the sector-by-sector clone feature when your target disk is equal to or larger than the source disk. Once this feature is enabled, the target drive will be identical to the source drive and the extra space will be marked as unallocated after cloning the SSD to the larger SSD.
• Edit Partitions: This feature helps you resize partitions as well as convert the disk type of the destination disk if it's different from the source disk. 

Summary

This post introduces what is Western Digital NVME deive, why you need Western Digital NVME cloning software and the best Western Digital NVME cloning software - AOMEI Backupper. It allows you to freely choose to clone disks or partitions, whether you want to clone a small disk to a large disk or a large disk to a small disk, it can meet your cloning needs. In addition to Western Digital, it supports a number of different SSD brands and types.

It is also a backup restore software. If you want to migrate all the contents of the disk to a new disk without cloning, then you can perform a disk backup and then restore it to the new disk. You can download this software to explore more.