Disk only, need additional tools for cloning
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This is a very affordable SSD, with decent quality. Used this to upgrade Mid-2011 Macbook Pro 13", and it works just fine. Speed increases dramatically.

The only drawback is that this product only comes with a spacer and no additional tool. So you will need separate USB-SATA cable or a disk enclosure if you want to clone your disk.
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Purchased this along with a new 2 TB HDD to expand my laptops storage from 1 TB. Used the offline cloning feature to "copy" my almost full (880 GB I believe) to the new drive. Took over 6 hours, nearly 7 hours from start to finish so don't expect this to duplicate drives quickly. Also a note about doing this, cloning a drive to a higher capacity drive, once done and installed the new 2 TB drive showed up as only having about 1 TB of space. This is due to the offline cloning feature automatically creating a partition with the same space as the source drive. Fixing this on Windows (Windows 10 in my case) was extremely simple. Just search in the search bar for Disk Management, this allows you to see all of your drives and their partitions. Next, right click on the partition of the new drive with the data on it (it will be labeled as containing data other will be called blank or unallocated partition) and chose expand volume/storage. Yup I can then chose the unallocated partition and it will consolidate into one part so you can now access the full 2 TB, actually more like 1.85 TB because reasons. This is long but I hope it helps somebody out if this happens to you.
TL;DR does what it says, takes a long time depending on size cloned, be aware when upsizing that the bigger dive might show up with smaller drives storage size and how to correct this yourself.
1856580
Allow me to transfer data from my IDE drive without having to open and close PC case to access cables.
2565035
With a little difficulty, the hard drive installed nicely.  A cloning software would have been nice but it was the problem from the manufacturer so I bought a third party program and that did the trick
3458506
My 2 cents.
To clone your existing HD into the new one.
Boot from OS X Snow Leopard CD (press [C] and use Disk Utilities to do it.
Installed XT on MBP Penryn and 4 GB RAM for a total of 6 GB.
Boot went down from 1:15 to 1:00 but I could care less for that.
What really impressed me is launching apps and also a Virtual PC I have on Parallels.... very zippy indeed.
The machine feels so much 'alive'.

BTW, had to run the Office 2011 installer again. Please read correctly: I did not have to do a complete Office 2011 re-install, rather just run the installer and no further updates, or dealing with user files, just run the installer.
2704930
Quick connect for spare non-enclosed drive, useful for migrating date from old to new drive.
4451166
Works as advertised. An easy way to clone or restore a hard drive (given the right software).
3939942
The cloning software did not work. I tried multiple different ways (other software, other computers) to clone the existing hard drive to upgrade to this SSD. Nothing successfully copied the Master Boot record, i.e., the computer would not boot up from the SSD. Perhaps there was a problem with the drive; I'm not sure. I am a pretty serious computer hobbyist, so I can fix most issues that can be fixed. I ended up returning it after wasting about 10 hours of my time.
1752598
Replaced hard drive in MacBook pro.  used the cloning utility and was up and running in 4 hours (had to copy 280 gigs of data) and has been preforming flawlessly.  Great way to speed up your machine
4022275
Complete rip off for Macbook Pro. The provided CD includes no cloning software whatsoever for Macbook Pro, but rather a link to a third party website that offers free cloning software.
3320054
Help revitalize some older FireWire and USB2 drives. Not the fastest, but did work as a scratch disk for video editing. That said, I would recommend sticking to a faster option, like Thunderbolt(2), if you have it. Current using it to archive media, in which it works well. As a note, dragging and dropping a whole drive to another, works much faster than the cloning feature. However, the cloning feature does work without a computer, which is nice. All said and done, it's cheap, works, and is a great option if you want to revitalize older drives, or drives that have had a controller or power source fail. I'm a fan.
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Easy way to significantly boost speed! File access and application start-up times are drastically faster. You'll need to exprience the differences in speed for yourself - WOW!!  If you're familiar with data loss, before you begin I highly recommend preparing you old drive by backing up your data (archive files to a NAS or portable HDD, delete unused files, etc.) and then performing hard drive maintenance (uninstall unused programs, defragmenting, etc.). Next you're ready for drive cloning.

You'll need a few items:  A SATA to USB adapter, cloning software, and possibly a small jewelers screw driver.

For the SATA to USB adapter, I used the 'Sabrent USB 3.0 to SSD / 2.5-Inch SATA Hard Drive Adapter' or you could simply disassembled a spare USB SATA to USB 3.0 HD enclosure and then plug it into an available USB 3.0 port (recommended).

For the cloning software, I used Apricorn (free version) EZ Gig IV Cloning Software to clone the hard drive of my laptop to the  SSD which took about ~45 minutes. Apricorn also allows you to deselect data folders from the copying proces (necessary for cloing to a smaller drive) as well as perform variable drive partitioning (automatic or manually). To connect the new drive for cloning, I simply attached the SATA adapter to the SSD, plugged it into the USB 3.0 port, and ran Apricorn.

If you're installing the SSD in a laptop, ensure you remove both your power adapter/cord and battery.  For my laptop, the physical installation took about 5 minutes and required using the jewelers screw driver to remove the back panel (2 screws), remove the HD carriage (4 screws), removing the drive from the carriage (4 screws), and installing the new SSD (reverse process). My laptop is newer so no BIOS settings were needed and now the system boots up in ~10 seconds.  Overall, the process took me about 3.5 - 4 hours (2.5 hours for backup and maintenance on the old drive and 1 hour for drive cloning) and was much easier than I anticipated.

I recommend installing the Sandisk dashboard software for information about and tools to help maintain the drive. The drive needs to be registered for warranty, and the serial number will be listed in the dashboard software.

This is my first SSD and I will never look back!
2756595
This drive is excellent.  It is fast and reliable.  Its one flaw is that when I tried to use a imaging software to copy my current
OS onto the drive, the drive failed to boot.  Upon looking at the drive I noticed a sentence stating that if you are going to use cloning software go to a website.  You cannot use certain cloning software without formatting the drive first using a free utility.  This is more of a nusance than a problem because they give you a free cloning app to perform the clone of your OS for free.
1538086
Worked great to install and clone SSHD into your laptop or desktop.  Would also recommend using Acronis software to handle the cloning.  Simple!
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I like that this came with the USB connector cable and power adapter, user manual and a well made product of technology!  Enjoy!

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I bought this product for cloning my Windows directory to an SSD./ The hardware cable worked as advertised but the included software didn't give the option to only clone the Windows directory. I ended up purchasing other software to get the job done.
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The clone feature is somewhat hard to activate, but it works really well and cannot be accidentally cancelled with button presses. I believe it is sector-by-sector based cloning, instead of file based - which makes it great if you are trying to clone a failing drive. I've used it in that situation twice, and it performed extremely well. It worked much better than using Norton Ghost or other low-level cloning utilities that (constantly!) error out on partially failed drives.