SAMSUNG DATA MIGRATION CANNOT FIND SSD SOFTWARE
The Samsung software itself is rather hostile to this purpose too because it will only image the boot volume to the target. The problem is the USB controllers emulate a storage device themselves, so the OS never sees the brand of the drive itself. We use them almost exclusively when building workstations, so I'm starting to get concerned! Has anyone found a stable/robust USB adapter or other solution to dealing with NVMe drives? As they get more popular, this problem is going to get bigger. At $50 to $80 a pop, I'm not keen to throw any more darts at Amazon hoping to find the answer. I have a PCI card in one of the bench machines that allows you to mount a drive, but so far 2 of them have failed in the first handful of times we've used them. This behavior is across several adapters, so I don't think it's just me. If I try to mount a customer's NVMe drive that way just to backup the data, half the time Windows will report that the drive needs to be initialized before it can be used. I've also noted that Windows itself doesn't seems to like the adapters. I've also tried Acronis Backup & Recovery, which doesn't even recognize that there is a drive available when using one of those adapters. In fact, in looking at other adapters online, I found at least one that has a warning that "this adapter will not work with Samsung Data Migration software". None of the USB adapters I've tried allows the Samsung software to recognize that there is a Samsung (in this case, a 970) drive in the adapter.
We like and mostly-use Samsung SSDs.which means we prefer the Samsung data migration software for when we're cloning.
We have run into this problem several times now, so I'm looking for a solution.