250 GB SSD to 500 GB SSD Clone question

Hello all and Happy upcoming Thanksgiving day!!!
 
 
I am anticipating getting a great deal on Black Friday or Cyber Monday on a Samsung 850 Evo 500 GB SSD.  I want to take everything from my currently in use 250 GB SSD and clone it to the 500 GB SSD.   Is this possible with out any hiccups? 
 
What should I look out for as a possible problems?  Will the programs and registered plugins that have been registered over the Internet cause any problems with not recognizing a ID number embedded on the 250 GB SSD hard drive?
 
My other option I am considering is, I just purchased Splat, so I may want to just take out the 250 GB SSD and replace it with the 500 GB SSD and just install everything from the Cakewalk Command Center.  This way I'll have a clean slate and then make my adjustments then add my other "Purchased from elsewhere" Plug-ins and Soft-synths.
 
What is the consensus here? 

Thanks Maxiimum Power.
 
I have Aomei too and it has been good to me as well. So if you have cloned Sonar and all of your plug-ins and soft-synths and there were not problems, then I trust it will work for me in that capacity as well.
 

I used Paragon free when I went SSD for the OS.
I did have to re-authorize my IK plugs & Trilian.
Sounds like Aomei will do the trick, but you will have to re-authorize a few plugs I would think.
Good luck!
 
Tom
 

omasse
Macrium Reflect free works well too.
 
I use it succesfully on several machines.

Used this recently to replace the drive on a new laptop with a SSD.  Worked like a charm.
 
Initially I tried the Data Migration utility that came with the Samsung SSD, but it hung mid-transfer (Still don't know what went wrong).  Did a factory restore on the laptop, then tried again with the free Macrium Reflect.  No problems.

got me a new system on the way will start out with a 250 gig Samsung evo SSD but the motherboard has the ability to add a M.2 SSD that they say can go 5 x's faster than most SSD's I may want to clone my SSD to a 500 gig M.2 later on.

I ran into many problems on Windows 8.1 when I went from a hard drive to an SSD (a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB).  I did a clone with the included Samsung program and the clone failed.  I tried the clone in Macrium Reflect (I have a paid version) and it too failed.  I tried Aomei and it too failed.   I had the software guru on the Windows 7/8 forums do some testing and his failed most of the time and his conclusion was it was a "hit or miss".   I finally did a "disc image" of my hard drive and "restored" to the SSD and it worked perfectly.
 
One thing to consider, when you "clone" it copies the source drive completely including bad/corrupted data blocks and even blank data blocks.  A disc image does not do this.
 
I tried the Samsung Magician and it reconfigured my Win 8.1 from High Performance to some modified power scheme, which I didn't want for my recording studio system. 

Well for the first time I ran a few Sonar projects on a dedicated SSD system. Holy cow lightning fast! And on a 4 year old PC.
 
However it's now pretty noticeable startup times when running Kingston and opening projects definitely could do with improvement (if it is at all possible), looks like a lot of CPU cycles going on. Start screen needs speeding up a little also. That's the only thing that stands out for me. Rest is pretty good performance wise although of course I have not used everything,