I have started a build out project on a great ThinkPad laptop. Two new SSD's, 16 gig of Ram, i7 processor, etc... That part I am good at, and this laptop is "road warrior" quality. A rebuild will be a much better end product than a newer style, unless I had 2 grand to drop, which I don't, LOL! I am converting the optical drive tray into another SATA SSD. Several reliable places make the tray just for the purpose. Not expensive either. The two SSD's will never be mounted at the same time as they will both be system disks. I am compartmentalizing my use with one for everyday life, and the other for my hobby interests, LOL! Some of you guys know I use a "full custom install" LVM on hardened LUKS header with /boot on USB. Therefore I can remove /boot after mount. I would like to continue that boot preference. I would submit to using a 256 meg partition as /boot initially, and then editing fstab to USB later. All the above to get to this question: my custom install took many days to get configured just how I want it to be. Lots and lots of tweaking in many areas. If possible I don't want to endure that process again, please. I use Macrium Pro and do full sector by sector (forensic) backups of these HDD drives. HDD restores are perfect every time. Seems to me that I could do a full sector by sector write to a new SATA SSD and have the exact same OS that I am using on the HDD. Macrium would automatically create the exact same size partitions so all the LVMs would be exact. Any leftover disk space could be made a data/file partition, or at a later time I could expand the LVM as needed. Seeking some advice before I proceed. I don't actually have the SSD's they are still being acquired. This is a learning time getting ready.
As long as your using the REFLECT forensic imaging (all sectors), you shouldn't have any problem whatsoever...
