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Anyone use SATA/USB adapter for cloning SSD ?

If it's anything like using an external USB3 drive it will take half a day.

How large is the drive you're cloning?
 
I've done migration to new Samsung SSDs on a few PCs using a USB 2.0 adapter like that and the Drive Magician software. It was painless and problem-free. I forget how long the backup took.
 
I have an adapter like that that I use to clone HDD to SSDs when I get new systems/laptops, and I think on average it takes about 30 minutes or so. It's really not bad at all as long as you use a USB 3.0 port instead of a 2.0.
 
While I favor using e-sata ports (usually with a dock) or hot-swap bays in a system for direct sata connections, most of the time usb 3.0 converters are not that much slower and work fine for clones/image creation and restoring. 2.0 works the same, just slower. Time mostly depends on the size of the data involved. If you do clones/backups a lot (with internal hdds etc) I'd get a hot swap bay installed, saves opening the case up.
 
DaveSimmons said:
I've done migration to new Samsung SSDs on a few PCs using a USB 2.0 adapter like that and the Drive Magician software. It was painless and problem-free. I forget how long the backup took.
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Likewise -- a USB 2.0 connection to a laptop. I don't remember being particularly annoyed at how slow it was. And actually, I did it twice: First, to clone a 500GB WD Blue 2.5" to a Crucial MX100 250GB SSD; then, to clone the Crucial to a 1TB HGST 2.5".
 
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