I used the software that came with my drives and had zero problems.
Well i didn’t want a complete clone- (i had a coupel of reasons why- mainly because I had isntalled the newer 18.1 linux mint on another HDD, got everythign how I wanted it. and wanted to use that instead of the linx 17.6 on my main hard-drive which i was restoring from- (I wanted the windows off it, but not the older linux)- the software with hte drive I think only did straight clones, not restore partitions- but I’m not sure- Macrium worked perfectly fine once I figure out to turn off the SSD Trim option- but wow was it a bear before that- clocking up the system, both on desktop and from live CD environment-