It doesn't even need to be plugged into the same interface. I recently replace both of my older mac's internal mechanical hard drives with SSDs. I actually prefer to start over rather than copying the years of bloat. But, if I need to access something that requires old drivers or systems level software, it's trivial to do so. I just put my old mac drives in portable enclosures and then I can just boot them from USB. Bonus, it's trivial to them copy the data from the old drive to the new one that's installed in the system.keyman_sam wrote: ↑Fri Nov 09, 2018 6:46 am Some wonderful points there on the advantages of MacOS. I didn't realize you could just clone your Mac drive and boot from it elsewhere/restore it. That's been a dream of mine on the PC world. You could create a boot disk of your PC and boot from it later. But to my knowledge you can't boot ANOTHER pc with that boot disk.
I do this with my Windows PCs as well, but you can't boot from the old hard drive.