Clone mSATA SSD to SSD

Looking for some recommendations for disk cloning. I have my OS on my Crucial m4 mSATA. I want to get an SSD & clone the mSATA <--> SSD. Such that I can boot straight from my SSD (& later format my mSATA)
Currently, I'm in UEFI mode (Windows 8)

I also have this at my disposal: StarTech HDD Duplicator. The specification overview mentions:

So as this supports all HDDs & SSDs, I was thinking of picking up a mSATA to SSD Enclosure, so I can fit the Crucial mSATA in that, put it on the 'Source' dock of the StarTech Duplicator & put my SSD on the 'Target' dock.

Also, the 'Target' SSD (which I haven't bought yet, but looking to pick up the Samsung EVO 1 TB when it releases) would be larger than the 'Source'. From StarTech's manual; this seems to be OK. The destination drive should equal the source drive in size (or can exceed).

Do you guys recommend going this route.. or something else?
Any experience with this sort of thing?

 

I would just boot into clonezilla with both drives in the notebook and clone away personally. Alignment should be alright, I did that once going from a 64 GB SSD to a 240 GB one and had no issues, I aligned the drove before cloning just to be sure, but you shouldn't need to if you are cloning from a SSD to another SSD. I also cloned SSD to SSD using Acronis and EzGig, both software also worked flawlessly. Acronis was the version for Intel SSDs and EzGig came bundled with a Crucial M4. Cloning from SATA 3 to SATA 3 was ridiculously fast by the way.

 

So that's just a straightforward process, right. Boot up with both plugged in & clone with EzGig. This alignment business, are you sure I won't need it? I haven't attempted it before & would need to look it up.

 

Usually, alignment is only a problem when cloning from a HDD to a SSD. EzGig will take alignment into account if you ask it to during setup, clonezilla isn't alignment aware, but since it creates an exact clone, an aligned drive should stay aligned on the clone.

 

EzGig is out. They need their proprietary "Upgrade Device" in order to use their cloning software. So I'm looking towards either using Clonezilla or using the StarTech Duplicator.

 

Interesting, I got mine with a SSD like I said, so I never needed to worry about that particular part.

If you want to go the clonezilla route: How To Migrate Windows 7 to a Solid State Drive. Skip the part where they tell you to defrag, not needed on a SSD.

EDIT: Pretty sure other members here have used other tools like Paragon and Macrium Reflect to clone as well. There are quite a few options. I've used Macrium to clone HDDs (worked perfectly), but not SSDs.