Apricorn - EZ Upgrade 3.0 Serial ATA Hard Drive Upgrade Kit

I got this to swap my 500GB SATA hard drive with a 256 GB Toshiba SSD. I wanted to be able to still use the hard drive as a portable drive. It worked well for the swap, and the price difference between the bare bones connections to migrate the hard drive contents to the SSD and this set up which allows for the swap and to use the old drive as a portable backup was minimal. I used the software included to copy the drive files and OS, but it flopped. The computer would not boot after copying the hard drive to the SSD and swapping them. The Toshiba SSD uses a program that you can download, NTI Echo I believe. That worked flawlessly. I copied my work files to the drive and I can now do almost all the work for my business with the laptop and portable drive. I recommend this set up.

In upgrading my laptop's hard drive to solid state, I needed something that allowed me to clone the existing drive to the new SSD unit. The Best Buy tech recommended buying an external drive case rather than just a cable. For the extra $10, I could use my original laptop drive in the case as an external drive instead of just having a one-time use cable laying around. After buying the case, I read several reviews that noted the software that comes with the drive doesn't always work. I wasn't worried as I know where I can find many drive cloning applications for free download. As it happens, my software did not work, after three hours of pretending to clone, the progress bar on the software was stuck on 0% complete. I downloaded a software package from EASEUS and it worked fine to clone my hard drive to the new SSD. The new drive and the system is now much faster and I have an extra 1 TB external hard drive to use on top of it. Don't expect the software to work, and if it does, consider it a bonus. The non-working software is the only reason I only gave it 4 stars.

I used this to clone an old SATA drive to a new SSD drive. It was very easy to use and worked great. I like it so much that I went out and bought another SSD and did the same thing with another laptop. So I have switched 2 old SATA drives to new SSD drives with the same kit. I plan on using it on 2 desk top computers soon. In addition, when I am done with all the upgrades, I can use this kit with one of the old drives as an external drive for extra storage. Bonus.

I got this to fix my old Gateway 10' Netbook that had a dying OS Hard Drive. After copying the provided cloning software to a thumb drive from its CD-Rom, and hooking up the new drive in the enclosure, I was able to get the drive cloning working with ease. Less than 5 min of setup to begin the cloning. Was able to clone a 250 HDD to a new 480 GB SSD in under an hour.

Overall, this was a pretty good purchase, it is fairly simple to set up, and does not require extensive knowledge of how to work on computers to setup. The software package is the only thing I would say is kind of a nuisance to use, but it is definitely functional. Of additional note, I am very pleased with the fact that after you remove your old hard drive, you can still use it as an external hard drive with the provided kit.

I was adding a larger drive to my Laptop. Put old drive in this enclosed and transfer user account and data to the new drive. I now have a nice place to store files that don't need to be accessed all the time. This is one of the best build and easies to use hard drive enclosures I have ever had.

I needed to swap the slow HD on a new computer with a better SSD but the computer doesn't have an optical drive to do a clean install on the new SSD. So it was get this product or an external optical drive. I decided to get this and had no problems swapping the drives. The unit has a slide out tray that you attach your drive to using four screws through the bottom of the tray. Everything seems solid and high quality. The software was extremely easy to use and available off of their website to download for free if you don't have an optical drive to install the supplied transfer software. I now use this as an external drive with a 1TB drive I had to store and access media files and programs that don't need the increased performance of an SSD drive.

cloned my hard drive to an ssd, works great using supplied softwar(can be downloaded from there site free if you don't have a disk drive) also works to house a hard drive for an external drive and usb 3.0 is fast