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Hello Experts,<br />
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I have a Mac Pro 2 tower that has 4 slots for HDD's. My main slot has a 250 GB drive which has my OS and applications on and the other 3 slots have 2TB forming a 6TB RAID.<br />
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What I'm looking to do is to replace my main 250GB drive with a 500 SSD drive. The only problem is that I don't have enough ports to have them all plugged in. So I had to remove the old 250GB drive and added my new 500 SSD drive to the system. <br />
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My question is how to I transfer my OS and applications from my old 250GB drive to my new 500 SSD Drive? Can I clone the 250GB drive to the 500 SSD drive if I connect the 250GB drive to a USB adapter? If not, then what is the proper way to clone the OS and applications from the 250GB drive to my new 500 SSD drive?
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Hello Experts,

I have a Mac Pro 2 tower that has 4 slots for HDD's. My main slot has a 250 GB drive which has my OS and applications on and the other 3 slots have 2TB forming a 6TB RAID.

What I'm looking to do is to replace my main 250GB drive with a 500 SSD drive. The only problem is that I don't have enough ports to have them all plugged in. So I had to remove the old 250GB drive and added my new 500 SSD drive to the system. 

My question is how to I transfer my OS and applications from my old 250GB drive to my new 500 SSD Drive? Can I clone the 250GB drive to the 500 SSD drive if I connect the 250GB drive to a USB adapter? If not, then what is the proper way to clone the OS and applications from the 250GB drive to my new 500 SSD drive?

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