M2 ssd drives are usually internal drives if your HD dies cloning can be helpful but not always a perfect guarantee and you have to update the clone regularly to make sure it is as current as possible. Saving your content to an external drive and updating as need be in my opinion is a better route granted having to reinstall carrara and then mapping the content once Carrara is installed as tiresome as it maybe has less likely hood of things getting messed up if you clone your drive. I say this because when you clone a drive any potential errors on your harddrive are also included when you clone the drive so bad sectors or disk errors will be included in your clone. Again this is just my opinion I have all my Daz and Carrara content on a drive all by itself and have a back up on a external that I store separately and update it when ever I install new content and if I have to reinstall Daz Studio or Carrara even Poser then I just map to my content drive and am back up in running with minimal hassle.

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