I used the Apricorn USB 3.0 to SATA adapter along with the bundled software to clone the factory-installed Seagate Momentus XT 500GB hybrid drive of my Clevo P150HM to an external Crucial M4 512GB SSD w/o issue. The transfer rate during the clone was definitely faster than USB 2.0 speeds but wasn't full USB 3.0 speed (in the 120 - 130MB/s range if I remember correctly). This is expected however since the internal mechanical drive just couldn't keep up with the SSD and was bottle-necking the transfer. Previously I used a bootable CD w/ DriveClone to do my cloning/backups but was pleased that the bundled Apricorn software could properly handle a full clone (including the swap and system files) while running under Windows 7 x64 w/o errors or issues. Cons: None - everything worked exactly as expected. Other Thoughts: Based on some other users' bad experiences maybe I just got lucky, but I would definitely recommend this product (and have). One obvious but easy to miss thing is to be sure that this product is actually plugged into a USB 3.0 port (look for the blue internal plastic tab) if you're expecting to get full speed. Also, another thing to watch out for is that some older USB 3.0 chipsets/implementations (like the one in my laptop) will downshift to USB 2.0 on ALL USB 3.0 ports if a USB 2.0 device is plugged into ANY of the USB 3.0 ports. So, if you're seeing sub-USB 3.0 speeds with a USB 3.0 device (such as this one) try unplugging any other devices connected to other USB 3.0 ports since that might be a way to get around the issue. Hope this helps.

Yup, the horrific technical potential of your laptop as the permanent scribe of your family history--dogs, cats, children, wedding, graduations or possibly even contact with loving grandparents from the afterlife, has succumbed to the silicon version of death. It's body lies helplessly before you and all efforts to bring it back to life (even during the Easter or Passover seasons) have failed. Even when plugged into its personal and loving AC adaptor it will never light up again to brighten your family history. But it has a soul. It's memories and algorithmic love of your family via intimate association with its fervent and dedicated internal hard drive have an embodied afterlife of sorts. And, with this cable, you can access the soul of your deceased laptop. It's fond and valuable memories can live on another computer as transferred files. This transformative process will require surgery, so to speak. It will be necessary to remove the still beating heart of your dead laptop in the form of its hard drive for connection to the above mentioned cable. Then all that has to be done is connect the laptop soul (hard drive) to the transformative cable, plug the USB side of the cable into the soul-sucking working computer, and transfer the files. The sun will once gain shine bright on your family history, the angels will sing--if you know the file structure of the beating heart hard drive. Peace...

There isn't much to this product other than the cable and the software on the CD. The cable is rather short, but pretty robust. Normally, I would complain about the length of the cable, but it seems that all cables like this have the same problem. If you want the data transfer software, don't buy this. Go download free and open source software like gparted or plenty of others. I have also heard great reviews about Samsung's disk cloning software, so you might check that out (though I haven't used it personally). Ultimately, you are getting what you need (it's plug-and-play on Windows). I haven't even used the disk cloning software and I don't intend to (I'm happy with gparted). Note: This only works on 2.5" drives as advertised (Will not work on 3.5"). I have tested it personally and wattage isn't a factor like I originally suspected (not sure why, doesn't make much sense). This is intended for USB 3.0, but it works fine on USB 2.0. I'm assuming that is why the length of the cable has to be limited (because USB 2.0 only provides 500mA per port). Hope this review helps you. The picture below shows my cable plugged into a standard laptop drive (Hitachi 700mA 5400 rpm HDD). Don't worry about the power delivery, it works.

Same part number, package includes the cable and CD as pictured. It works. Just one thing: The instructions really need to advise running a full "Check Disk" on the source drive first, with both options checked ("automatically fix file system errors" and "scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors"). At the end of my first cloning attempt it errored out because it found bad sectors. Had to fix those and rerun the software. The second time it worked without a hitch and I'm up and running on a new disk drive. Run a "check disk" by opening Computer, select the drive, select Tools tab, click Check Now and then BOTH options. Then reboot, grab coffee or something and wait for an hour or so, if you've got a big drive. I'm giving this product 5 stars because of past professional experience with cloning and "bare-metal recovery". As an IT tech and enterprise manager of 30+ years, I'm very impressed with this user-level product priced less than a fourth of what this capability used to cost. Acronis will cost you $10-$20 more without the necessary cable or box for the new drive. Granted this doesn't have a full list of options (and "select data" is limited, as apparently you cannot discretely select individual folders and files, just the "My" stuff), but for the advertised purpose it's right on the money. If you need to copy an entire 2.5" hard drive for full backup or hardware replacement, this will do exactly that.

Purchased to upgrade a Win10 laptop from 500gb to 1TB. The supplied CD wouldn't boot, but a CD produced by the program after installation did. Easy workaround. Unexpectedly, the Apricorn cable does NOT make an attached drive appear as a typical USB drive, so its only purpose is cloning. It would be nicer if it could also serve that "dual purpose". The cloning ran for 1.75 hours, encountered some bad blocks on the source and stopped, declaring that the cloning failed. The resulting drive wasn't bootable. (since the cable didn't act as an external USB drive, i wasn't able to see if it was mountable or had any usable data). If the source drive had been perfect, i'm certainly willing to believe that the clone operation would have been successful. But it wasn't, and rescuing systems from beginning disk failure would be one of my primary uses for such a system. (see Clonezilla, below) I was finally able to perform my transfer with Windows' System Image function to an external USB drive, then from the USB drive back into the blank 1 TB drive. System Image also hit the bad blocks and declared a problem, but at least the resulting System Image file did successfully create a fully functional system. If i were to try this as a Clone operation again, i'd revert to my old techniques of using the free Clonezilla package for the Clone (it *can* survive bad blocks on the source drive, and handles them intelligently) and an external USB drive carrier. The only reason i tried the Apricorn system was seeing it included (without cable) with some Western Digital retail kits. Oh, well, a cheap experiment.

This kit includes a USB to SATA cable and CD-ROM with data transfer software. This kit is intended for computers with a current working hard drive that needs replaced because it is beginning to fail, is too small, etc. If you can't boot your computer now you may not need this cable. It will not copy a hard drive that is not working. So assuming your hard drive is working the following will apply. Starting with the cable, this allows you to connect your new hard drive to your computer using a USB cable. The included software comes on CD-ROM, but if you don't have a CD-ROM drive you can download the same software for free from the company's website and run it from your old hard drive, or USB thumb drive. You can use the software in the operating system, or boot to the cloning software (advanced user method). The software walks you through a few basic questions and begins copying. Plan on about 30 minutes per 100GB to finish copying. This may be more or less depending on your system, but is about average for the many times I have done this. Once the software finishes the copy, turn off your computer, install the new hard drive inside the computer and turn the computer on. It should boot up like nothing happened, except a speed increase if coming from an HDD. Format or encrypt (more secure, scrambles all data) your old hard drive before disposal.

I've had bad experiences with drive cloners. It seems no matter what, the cloned drive will have problems. I purchased this alongside a 480gb ssd to put in a new laptop I purchased. Of course, the laptop did not have a restoration disc or even a Windows 8.1 licence key anywhere on the bottom (I could have downloaded the Windows 8.1 installer directly from Microsoft website and loaded it this way). It was purely on the recovery partition. Originally I was only going to clone the recovery partition but I figured it would save me time to do the entire drive if it worked. So I just cloned everything. And I have to be honest, I am surprised how easy it was and how well everything works. It's been almost a month and I have been using the laptop for gaming and work.I have had ZERO issues. The SSD vs the 5400RPM hard drive that was in it is like night and day. Load and boot times are fast. Battery life appears to have increased if only a little bit since the SSD's are less power hungry that the HDDs of old. If you need a good cloner, believe it or not, this is it. Get it.

Not sure if everyone is using this to clone a laptop HDD to a SSD as a replacement - but that's what I was doing. I had 2 different laptops - one with Windows 8.1 and the other Windows 7. Both have the older magnetic drives and I bought one of the Sandisk SSD (240) to replace them. If one worked I was going to buy another one. Well - the cloning seemed to work flawlessly but neither laptop would recognize the SSD (yes - I cloned each separately). No matter what I did in the BIOS - neither machine would recognize the new drives. So despite this being marketed as a product that makes this process easy - it's far from easy. I spent most of my Saturday on this and despite an IT background - I could not get it to work. After I did some further reading on this, it's quite apparent that this could involve registry editing and other very specialized tweaking to get it to work. Why this works well for some with no issues and no extra effort is quite baffling to me. Maybe it depends on the O/S or the make of laptop - not sure. Someone said Best Buy won't take this product back - I haven't tried. But how do you sell a product that doesn't work and then not allow it to be returned?