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? 

I used Aomei (free) to clone a 1TB hard drive to a 500GB SSD without any issues. 
 
That is the only experience I have with cloning but it worked well for me.

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.
 

Samsung also ship a program to copy drives with a new SSD. 

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
 

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

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.

Thanks for all of the great ideas, I will try Aomei first since I already have it and see how that goes.  I don't mind re-authorizing some software, but as long and the entire HD clones without any major 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.

Just spent a long day with 3 ssd cards transferring from hard drives. Cloning em and moving them around. I have loads of partitions so a fairly complex job.

One thing I would say is run magician afterwards with the Samsung models (download the latest). You are missing out otherwise. Update the firmware, run open provisioning and enable rapid mode. It runs noticeably faster.

The performance optimizer is worth running as well. Just make sure you turn off ms search indexing and review the windows power settings afterwards.

Finally make sure windows is running ATA/AHCI afterwards...

Btw I use acronis trueimage and disk director