Fast Drive, Long Clone process
343673
Installed in Mac Book Pro and love the speed improvement. The San Disk Dashboard software is not compatible with the Mac, which was a slight disappointment. Be sure to write down the serial number of the drive before installing it if you intend to register your product with San Disk. They require the serial number entry, and I had to open mine back up to get it.... Seems to be working great so far. I had about 600 Gigs on my spin drive, and it took about 10 hours to clone using Carbon Copy.
1821596
I was burning some discs on this burner and an LG internal IDE drive on another computer with almost identical specs.  The internal drive took about 7 minutes.  This drive took probably more than 3x that long.  I suspect the difference is due to the fact that this one is "slim" and uses USB.  If you aren't in a rush and want to share the drive between multiple computers, then you can't beat the price and quality of this unit.
3488651
I bought this drive to replace the 5200 rpm drive that came with my laptop. I had no problem cloning the hard drive in my laptop to this drive. I did do some research on how to do this as I had never done it before. I usedthe StarTech hard drive cable adapter to do the clone and everything worked perfectly.  (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HJZJI84?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00) My laptop is now much faster, and I saved the upgrade to the smaller SSD drive.
3246262
I used the Universal HDD adapter to clone two IDE drives, one 2.5" laptop, one 3.5" desktop.  Installed the new cloned drives in both computers and they fired right up. One reviewer stated he had no luck cloning his IDE drives.  I had no problems at all.

This tool was a big time saver.
376243
This product works exactly as advertised. It will clone your hard drive in a few hours. Great way to create a bootable recovery disk. I was able to replace a flaky hard drive without reinstalling windows and all applications which saved me hours of time
2528333
Purchased to clone a Dell XPS M1210 Windows Vista laptop hard drive onto a bigger one.  Cloning the drive was incredibly simple:
Install the software and type in the incredibly long activation key.
Plug in a USB drive with the bigger disk (make sure its the same interface IDE or SATA - this one was SATA).
Select CLONE disk and the source (internal HDD) and destination (USB) drives.
The software will exit Windows, reboot and run its own loader.  Cloning 80MB to 160MB took about 40 min after which the computer restarts Windows on the internal drive.
Shut down and remove the battery and internal HDD.
Open the USB drive case, remove the drive and install in the notebook.
Reinstall the battery and fire it up.
Done.  Acronis will resize the C: partition automatically for the bigger drive. It also cloned Dell's restore partition.

I used a regular USB drive because I had it lying around. There are USB-SATA adapters available on Amazon that do the same thing with a bare drive.

Based on what I found when I tried to restore some lost files 'saved' using Windows backup (they weren't there..) and discovering that Dell's version of Vista does not allow making a Restore disk, I think ACT will be invaluable for routine backups.

It worked flawlessly.

EDIT: I cloned the same Dell to an even bigger 500MB drive with no issues either.  This time, I manually adjusted the partition sizes.  The default cloning, while easy, scales the existing partition sizes up proportionally.  That meant that the 10GB Dell Restore partition grew to 20GB on the 160GB drive and even bigger on the 500MB, wasting space.  Using the manual partition size feature, I was able to keep the restore partition at 10GB which is all it needs.
Still very happy with Acronis.
901472
Five stars for the drive. Minus one star for the software. The cloning software does not make a reliable clone. Use it at your own risk. You WILL have many issues with software not working afterwards. For a reliable clone, use hardware if you can. The star tech SATDOCK2REU3 will set you back about 65 bucks and works 100 percent. If your cloning to a smaller size disk, you'll need a software solution
1213321
Kind of a pain getting my os cloned onto this drive (no fault of the ssd). Once I finally figured it out I was blown away with the speed of my computer. The install was easy and it came with an adapter if your computer uses a larger than normal hard drive. The only improvement I saw was maybe provide cloning software with this because I almost returned the drive and spent over $100 on software trying to find something that would work.
1407149
first time during the cloning process it froze at 50% and it told me I had 2 bad sectors so after reading a customer review i installed EaseUS and opened the program, then it gave me a list of files and I right clicked the one selected os c, selected resize-move, checked a box that said partition for ssd, clicked ok, closed the program then I  reopened ez gig went through the cloning process again and walla! I went from a 1tb Samsung hdd to a 512gb crucial m550 ssd and it cloned it perfectly. it took about 30 minutes.
942552
FAST when it's working. Not when it comes to install. Ended up with days worth install and continuous troubleshooting. Not for people who lacks patient.

First trouble was using the Samsung Migration software, it detects the source disc same as target disc. Unable to change source disc is major flaw for the software. While all the other "free" cloning software are able to change source disc freely. I ended up using Macrium for cloning.

Random freezing.
Still working on this issue. My previous WD HDD win7 worked flawlessly. So I assume it's cloning fail? There's nothing I can say about my bios or my cables. Could be firmware, driver, or my video card driver. Well see

I'm debating if I should just fresh install. I didn't want to do that at first because of tedious amount of file back ups and reinstalling all the software. Kind of defeats the purpose of cloning and the simple instruction guide... Plus what if laptop user doesn't have window disc.

I"ll keep an update...
5/29 It's been 3 days now. The SSD hasn't giving me and freeze yet.
5/31 SSD sometimes couldn't detect through bios after try to wake up from sleep. So no boot unless I do a complete power cycle.
7/1 SSD has been running without freeze or BSOD. so far so good? Reduced loading time on games significantly.
980453
For the most common application of cloning a drive externally, it works like a charm. This is as simple as it gets. The only problem is that once you use it, future applications are rather limited since drive enclosures almost always have a USB rather than SATA connection.
2809955
Cloning a drive couldn't be any simpler.  Straight forward instructions and time to clone was relatively quick for the new SSD installation.
4913100
This worked great for an "on-the-go" backup drive. I use this with Clonezilla to backup workstations before we make major OS changes. I have seen write speeds of 5Gb or higher on our newer systems and about 3Gb or so on older systems both are USB 3.0 but the newer systems have better throughput. Time to complete the task over the 1Gb network was 6-8 hours. Time using this drive connected directly to the system was about 30-60 minutes. After completion, I connect the drive using USB 3.0 to our NAS box and copy the files. I know it seems like a lot of work but it is so much faster then using the network. Our NAS box has 2 10Gb SFP connections to our backup server.
P.S. I also have the 5TB version at home.
4855847
I effected a quick clone of my SSD boot drive with this gadget. It was much faster than with the USB 2.0 cable I previously used. This was in a Win 10 Dell environment.
314260
The software that comes with it is great. Very easy to clone your existing drive to this drive. No need to re-install windows. Just make sure you follow the directions.
122400
I am a part-time computer technician.  I purchased this drive duplicator dock to clone existing Hard drives.

The packaging is easy to open.  The SATA Drive Duplicator comes with a Dedicated USB 3.0 cable, a power adapter, and a small instruction manual.

To use the device, it is rather simple.  Place the Original drive in Slot A, place the Destination drive into Slot B. Turn the unit on (there is a toggle switch on the back) which will be confirmed on as the Power LED will light up.  Press AND HOLD the "Clone" button (big Red button you see in photo) until the LED for 100% is lit up. Release the "clone" button. Press the "Clone" button once more to initiate the cloning process. Leave the unit alone.  You can check its progress by looking at the front LED indicator lights (25%, 50%, 75%, 100%).  The flashing lights indicate it is working, do not move the drives at anytime during this process.  The 100% LED will stop flashing and remain solid when the cloning process is complete.  Toggle off the unit at that time and remove the drives.

I cloned my 250 GB SSD drive to a 2 TB SATA which has Windows 8.1 OS.  The duration for the cloning took approximately one hour.

This unit clones SATA drives only so if you have an IDE drive, or a smaller 2.5 notebook drive, you will need a hard drive adapter.  There is an insertion within the box showing an example and a suggestion of where to order one from.

Overall, I really like this devise.  It does exactly what I purchased it for.

I have only used this to clone drives, so at this time, I cannot comment on how it works as a Dock for an external drive.  When I try it I will Update this post.

I also plan on testing this on a Server which has SBE 2011 as the OS.  I will add an update after I do.

Update:  I found an issue so if anyone knows how to fix it please let me know: The cloning to a larger drive actually partitions the drive, breaking it down to the original drive size and the other partition is whatever is left over.  I do not see a means to Extend the drive nor do I see a means to get the unused partition writable.

At this point, I would suggest to only clone to the same size drive unless you know a way to use the extra partition.
2695233
I decided to clone one of my laptops to this slim Seagate and all went smoothly. I logged nothing scientific, but having done stuff like this for the past 20 years or so, I know whats what. The data transfers were fast and smooth, with no glitches or hiccups, as expected. The entire clone took maybe 4 hours.  The drive got a little warm, but nothing unusual. They thin form factor would make this a perfect for the ultra thin laptops out there. And since this is just a bare drive, I wasn't saddled by Seagate's notoriously laggy backup software; just the pure, full speed of the drive itself. Honestly, the only thing I question is the capacity. Drives should be making a solid leap toward SSD by now. However the price is still a little on the rip-off side for the low GB capacity you get. So, yes, this drive is fast and thin, but it's only 500gb. 4 years ago, that was a monster. Now? It's barely mediocre. Good drive, but if you're upgrading your computer, definitely, without a doubt, you should be getting something more than 500gb. Good overall.