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I have a Samsung HD103SJ that's making weird noises when reading and I'd like to replace it. I'ts old, and this HDD costs around $130 on Amazon. I'd rather clone it to a Western Digital Black HDD, which costs $74 on Amazon, however I'm not sure if the hardware have to be exactly the same for a successful cloning.

If both HDDs are the same size (1TB), does the the HDDs brand and model have to be the same?

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The hard-drive doesn't need to be the same make or model but the new drive does have to be the same size or larger.

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    Some cloning software's will clone to a smaller drive.
    – Moab
    May 10, 2016 at 0:15

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