I love to disk clone, and have used the same Ghost for the last 4-5 years, for SATAs and all that as well. I've been able to save many a bad hard drive contents by first cooling the drive down and then wrapping it into ice cubes and letting Ghost do the trick, fast. The first time I used the cooling technique for restoration was around 1991 when someone had his Mac's huge(!) 40 MB drive and the Ph.D. thesis die.
I've later seen it appear listed under "myths" in the internet, but I can quarantee it's a fully working procedure for when your HD is starting to lose its grip after a short while, which seems to happen quite often.