Among the many tools out there for cloning drives and performing full-system backups, one came to my attention for being both free (and open source) and powerful: Clonezilla, a product of the Free ...
Clonezilla is a bootable CDROM designed for partition backup and restoration. Unlike SystemRescueCD, Clonezilla Live doesn't contain an array of utilities, rather, it is a single, focused tool.
The simplest way to clone the disk is with a dual HDD/SSD dock. Almost every dual dock has a cloning function built in. Insert the HDD into the Source bay and the SSD into the Target bay. Long press ...