SSD's and Imaging Software

I was wondering if anyone uses Imaging Software with there SSD's and does it cause any problems? Have you done full system restores without issues? I have Acronis True Image 2010 and wondering?

Thanks for any comments

TH

 

I was wondering that also??

 

I just don't want to be a Crash Test Dummy anymore!

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1877831&postcount=336

TH

 

hi, i have been using acronis true image home 2011 with my intel SSD for about 6 (since beta) months now and have had no issues what so ever

done about 50 restores and all have been successful (from within windows and outside windows)

restoring my C drive partition takes around 3 minutes, creating images takes about 2 minutes

no need for rollback rx etc with acronis doing restores this fast

been very very impressed.

 

I have no problems with IfW/IfL. Even better that it supports aligning to a 2K boundary, which is best for an SSD.

 

Can you please elaborate as to what IfW/IfL is?

TIA,

TH

 

Good to know thanks!

TH

 

i am assuming he means Image For Windows and Image For Linux

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-image-for-windows.htm

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-image-for-linux.htm

highly regarded software, i gave it a whirl but it wasn't for me.

acronis just seems more easier and faster for me, although i am sure i am in the minority with that view, especially on this forum

 

I have an Intel SSD, and have been using Macrium with it. No problems, just make sure your turn off or configure things to not use the SSD drive a lot, such as caches and indexing. Other than controlling writes like that, I have treated it as a normal drive and not seen a difference yet.

I even took an image of win7, NON AHCI, installed it to the SSD, then modified the registry, rebooted, enabled AHCI in BIOS, and booted into the OS.

For me, it has been seamless other than figuring out how to stop writing to the SSD as I mentioned and how to use TRIM.

Sul.

 

Hey treehouse, I've got some questions - re your impressive post (quoted above):

1. What's the size of your C-partition's used space?
2. Are you backing up to an internal or external drive?
3. If external, is the interface USB2?, USB3?, or eSATA?

Aaron

 

hi aaron
C partition uses just under 30GB's of space.
all transfers are internal, SSD to SSD.
all drives have a sata 6Gbps connection on an AM3 board (i emphasize this as AM3 boards have a good internal data transfer rate especially at sata 6Gbps)

pagefile is on a Z partition (SSD) and hibernation file is disabled, system restore disabled... all that saves about 5GB of the image size

please note that acronis was by far faster for me than any other program (not tried O&O disk image yet tho) results may vary per user. if anyone has a similar hardware setup to mine then give it a shot, you might be impressed too

 

All image programs I have used remove by default the page and hybernation files from images.

 

i must have tried more then as half do it by DEFAULT from my experience and the ones that do do it by default also remove other temp files but i know from experience not to remove any temp files as some programs store their permanent settings in temporary files, stupid, i know, but true

 

Well that explains your outstanding backup-restore times (although I believe it's prudent to also backup to an external drive that you can safely tuck-away).

Btw, I'm not a member of the 'bash Acronis club'. I was very happy with Acronis v9 until I started using Rollback Rx. ATI v9 (home edition) didn't have a sector-by-sector backup option (which I needed to backup my RB-enabled partition) so I switched to Drive Snapshot and have been using it ever since.

Aaron

 

i also transfer images (once a month) to my nas box located next door and backup essential files to my online storage service

i used to use drive snapshot too but ATI 2011 does allow sector by sector backups (also very rapid) and for me is unmatched in its capability to restore the active partition with out the need of a boot disk or any command-line palaver or MBR modifications
(is there another product that can do this? its not a rhetorical question, i actually want to know as i would like to try that product out)

 

I went ahead and installed ATI 2010 and did an image to my external Back Up drive without problems but only time will tell if I need to do a system restore down the road I got my fingers crossed! If I do I will reply to this thread with the outcome!

Thanks everyone!

TH

 

TH, I would be leary about any solution that hasn't been "tested" to insure the successful restoration of a needed volume... especially ATI 2010. Their product evolution has always contained additional capability (Win7 partitioning, etc.) and as such unless corroborated by Aconis themselves, I surely wouldn't trust ATI 2010 with an SSD unless proven. You'd have a much better shot with ATI 2011.

You really do need to successfully test the product before that large lump of faith is delivered into its direction... especially with SSDs.

 

Why do you say this? Do you find a difference with SSDs? I haven't yet, but haven't extensively explored it.

Sul.

 

I believe they added that option starting with v10. It was not there with v9 (and before).

Actually, Drive Snapshot now provides for initiating a restore from its Windows GUI and it works quite well. It was Aaron Here who suggested I try Drive Snapshot when I was looking for an image-backup program for my laptop. I ultimately 'trialed it' and I love it.

Wendi

 

You could be right! http://kb.acronis.com/content/2699 and http://forum.acronis.com/forum/3823#comment-38385

TH

 

TH, that's exactly where I was leaning with my comment. It's not that ATI is a bad product, it's just that it takes a while to get full support for new technologies in their product line.

I'm also stunned that they say it exists in their HOME 2011 product but doesn't exist yet in their ABR product for the enterprise workstation. Although I don't wanna get into Acronis bashing (I'm not a big supporter for other reasons than questionable support for SSD drives), clearly, based on Acronis' own admission, ATI 2010 is not a product you wanna be using for your SSD support.

 

Hi Sully! Triple Helix' mention of the Acronis forum on the ATI 2010 product kinda says it all. There are serious cell alignment problems that must be dealt with when manipulating SSD data... if ignored, performance issues can rear their ugly heads along the way. If the SSD device is mostly read-only, performance will not take much of a hit if the data is mis-aligned, but if it's a normal read-write device, it's performance will suffer greatly over time, and its expected life span will shorten also.

 

Dear TheRollbackFrog,

I seriously doubt that many enterprises and enterprises workstations use SSD, keeping in mind the cost factor, size in GB and gain in speed.

Best regards,

KOR!

P.S. I find ATI 2011 Home one of the best imaging product out there.

 

None whatsoever using ShadowProtect Recovery disk (probably at least 6 restores) on an OCZ Vertex II 3.5" for >5 months.

 

hi wendi

interesting.
does it not modify the MBR so it can boot before windows?
does it let u use the full gui of the program when you are restoring?