Early 2011 MBP upgrade to Samsung SSD help

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I have an early 2011 13" Macbook Pro running OSX Yosemite, and it's been slowing down quite a bit over the last few months. I upgraded the memory to 16GB a little while back, and now I'm thinking of replacing the current HD with a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD. I would like to copy all the existing data from my current HD to the new SSD.

I've watched a number of videos on how people have replaced their HD with an SSD, but there have been so many different ways that I'm not sure what the best (or recommended) way to do it. Any recommendations or suggestions?
 
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Just to throw an idea your way if you were not aware of it. If you do not use the optical drive in your 2011 MBP much (or at all). You can remove the optical drive & install a 2nd storage device. So you could have both your current hard drive & an SSD inside.:)

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