Well, the SSD and its cage mount showed up yesterday.
I spent several hours tinkering around just to get Windows to recognize it
but I couldn't get Acronis/WD to play ball. I even updated Acronis to the new version (and paid for a year subscription) and all that happened was I finally got the WD Dashboard for the SSD to install.
Yes, its going to be a pain in the @$$ and I'm still not sure I can clone the SSD and swap it in as the new boot/work drive.
More later.