Apricorn ASW-USB-25 SATA Wire USB Connection for 2.5-Inch SATA Hard Drive or Solid State Drive (White)

Brand: Apricorn    Model : Y72551    Customer Rating :    List Price : $19.00    Sale Price : $15.43

Apricorn ASW-USB-25 SATA Wire USB Connection for 2.5-Inch SATA Hard Drive or Solid State Drive (White) Feature

• Upgrade a Notebeook Hard Drive in 3 simple steps
• Provides a USB Connection to any 2.5 Inch SATA Hard Drive or SSD
• Includes cloning software for PC’s and Mac’s
• Perfect for transfering data to a bare drive
• Perfect for upgrading your notebook hard drive or transferring data to bare drives

Apricorn ASW-USB-25 SATA Wire USB Connection for 2.5-Inch SATA Hard Drive or Solid State Drive (White) Overviews

Apricorn’s SATA Wire is the ideal tool to upgrade your 2.5-Inch SATA or SSD drive in a Notebook or Netbook computer.Bundled with Apricorn’s EZ Gig II Cloning Software for PC’ and Shirt Pocket Cloning Software for Mac’s; this kit makes upgrading the main drive in your notebook straight forward and painless.If your notebook is running out of space or you are looking to upgrade to a faster, high performance hard drive or solid state drive, Apricorn’s SATA Wire is the perfect tool.Providing a USB connection to a 2.5-Inch SATA drive, SATA Wire enables you to upgrade your notebook’s drive in three simple steps. 1) Connect the SATA Wire to your drive and the USB port to your computer .Run the included cloning software to copy all of your data, email, settings and OS from your notebook to the new drive. Swap out your old notebook drive with your new one, and you’re done

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Apricorn ASW-USB-25 SATA Wire USB Connection for 2.5-Inch SATA Hard Drive or Solid State Drive (White) CustomerReview

I bought this by accident when reviewing it. I hit the one click order button thinking I hit add to cart. Well I don’t mind, for the price it was worth a try.

I got it and my 120GB SSD and gave it a whirl. I upgraded from a 60GB drive to the 120GB drive. I have Windows 7 Home Premium x64 on a Sony Vaio CW with a Core i5 540m CPU and 6GB of RAM.

I found two important things to note. Number one is that any USB flash drive, external drive, SD card, Memory Stick, or similar must be taken out first. The software will assume that it is a part of the hard drive and want to allocate space for it. Then on reboot it will have a problem from not being able to find those ‘partitions’ and cancel the operation.

Second, I have a second partition on my computer mapped as B:/, since I know I’ll never otherwise use it. Once the clone was complete and the drive replaced, Windows rebooted no problem. The only issue was that my B:/ was now H:/, so I remapped it to the B:/ drive before doing anything else and restarted the computer.

After that, all was exactly as it was before, only bigger and faster! My old SSD ranked as a 5.9, the new one ranks a 7.4!

Later I decided to take my other SSD and put it in my wifes computer. SSDs are very fast. Her computers hard drive was a 250GB and I was going to transfer to that 60GB SSD. She was only using about 30GB. First thing I had to do was defrag the 250GB so then I could use the shrink volume using the Windows 7 manage feature. I was only able to shrink the volume to 110GB, but the included software has a feature in the cloning feature that proportionally resizes the partitions. The reason I had to shrink the volume first was because the drive is significantly smaller. Basically the new drive was half the size of the partition, so the program made the partition half as big ~ 55gb. This fit just fine. I put in the SSD into my wifes computer, and it worked perfectly as before!

Overall, it was very easy to use, and I am happy that I bought it. Making clones of drives is a great way to back up your computers!

*** Product Information and Prices Stored:Aug 08, 2010 08:15:18

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