Can I use the adaptor to clone one SSD to another SSD? I have a Samsung series 9 laptop with 128 GB, I want to upgrade the SSD to 256 GB.
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I'm in the process of doing this exact upgrade, except up to 480 GB. Using Macrium Reflect Free, I was able to clone the drive, swap it into the Series 9, and the computer is acting perfectly. It worked. The problem is that even though it's a 480 GB drive, windows just shows it as the same size as old one, with 300GB of "unallocated" space that I can't figure out how to make accessible. If you figure it out, please let me know how you did it! My thread is one of the other Q & A threads on this same product.
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Does it use mSATA? Don't confuse this with mini SATA. This is for the mSATA cards that look like a small laptop wifi card
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You should be able to clone an SSD with this adapter, but some folks have reported issues with booting after doing so. I suspect it could be a sector alignment issue, use a smart cloning software and it should work.
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I don't know. I am not an IT expert. I bought the item just like you did and I am having issues with the SSD in my laptop and assured it would work. It first would not read the operating systen after I cloned the SSD. Now it doesn't recognize the drive. I am a little ticked at the seller as I believe they knew there was a compatibility issue and lied to me.
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The SSD should be fine in your Macbook, depending on what version of OS X you are running you may need to install a trim enabler, I recommend the from this site: http://www.cindori.org/software/trimenabler/. As for the USB adapter fitting your current HD for backup purposes that is less clear. Macsales.com has a bunch of these type of products and may be a good resource to see if your adapter will work. Good luck.
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Yes, you can. That is how I use it. Hovewer, if you use brand new Ssd drive, you need to initialize it first from Disk Manager on Windows, only then it will be visible as the new drive with a letter when you connect USB cable.I used MyDigital ssd usb3.0 as satatousb adapter and it works perfectly fine on my five different computers.
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Hi ChrisL ... I have used many different drives with this device. SSD and normal 2.5 inch laptop drives... just plug it in, you do not need any casings or adapters... real "plug and play". Just be careful of what SSD you get.... I fried 2 OWC Mercury Electra SSD .... no refund (they didn't burned with this device, relax. The failed with original OWC casings while transferring large files...)
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That's exactly what I did, used the adapter to put the SSD on the desktop. Further, I had a cable to allow two hard drives so I was able to copy the existing hard drive to the SSD using the Linux software Clonezilla. Then removed & retired the existing hard drive as a backup.
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changing the drive is easy, any SSD SATA would do. I would go about 250g or bigger if you can afford it. Don't forget to clone from the original to get all the proper drivers .
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When I got mine what I did was download a free copy of Macrium Reflect, then use the clone option. I had to call Microsoft to reactivate, but it was really easy (it was only on 1 computer - that's the only question they asked). Then I installed the Samsung Magician software, and told it to change all of Window's settings to maximum performance for a SSD.
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Update: You need to be CERTAIN the ssd is MICRO sata, and the other connection is STANDARD SATA, as I see it. My mistake was not even knowing there was such a thing as SLIMLINE sata, but WTH... Six bucks...? NBD... I'd send you mine, but I never get anything done. 'Buried somewhere anyway...
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Perfectly. All I had to do was to move a kind of protection and remover tab attached to the old HD for the new Samsung SSD. That's all. I know that some Hard Disks doesn't even have it. The size and position of the connectors are in the same place in both.
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Absolutely. Use Carbon Copy Cloner and that will work great. However, I would just take the old HDD and stick it in a drawer as a backup drive, get another SSD and use it as external super fast storage.
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This Adapter is suitable for mSATA (Mini SATA) only. I do not know about the interface of your Sandisk SSD.
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I installed the Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Notebook Kit Version in my HP Envy m6. I replaced a 750 GB drive with the 500 GB SSD. I made sure that the used space on the original drive was less than the max allowed on the SSD. The Samsung drive copy software worked flawlessly and I'm very happy with the performance after installing the SSD. I took the original 750 GB drive and installed it in a drive enclosure so I can use it for backup and extra storage if I need it.
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I think it would work fine. Neither is single use, and I used the adapter and software to do drive backups after migrating to the new SSD drive.
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I have made several cloned drives from hdd's to new ssd's, works great with Macrium Reflect (free).
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Yes I did. if it don't work, download easeus data partition and partition data before you clone. I went from 1tb HDD to 512 ssd with no problems
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I have no idea. However, if you know the GA-Z97MX says it takes an M.2 and the SSD looks like the picture, you will be taking much less of a chance of being wrong than I took with using an adapter!