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Acronis True Image, is it the one i need?

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faye

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Hi,

i have a 250gb WD drive, but currently it runs like 70C even with a 80mm fan blowing underneath. I believe it is dying.
I am buy a Wester Digital 640GB AAKS to replace it.

my old 250gb has 4 partition, around 60gb~ per partition, i want to exactly copy/image all the file and transfer to the new drives with 4 patitions(now with 160gb~ per partition)

is Acronis True Image the software i need?
how long does it take to image a 40gb drive?
how hot is 640aaks is running?
 
I really have fallen in love with clonezilla. Its free and open source and works great. It can make an image to dvds, a network share, or a many other options. Give it a shot.
 
Well you probably will get a transfer rate around 10 Megabytes per second or better unless the drive is super slow (because of its problems or fragmentation or it being ancient), so that'd be
40GB / 10MB = 4000 seconds give or take, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was a fair bit faster than that.
 
Should be less than 30 min but can't say for sure. Oh and you probably want to clone the drive to the new one, not create and restore the image.
 
With TI, you can clone a 200 GB drive in about 11 minutes if SATA to SATA or PATA to SATA, and about 35 minutes via USB.

Yesterday, I replaced an external 160 GB drive with a 320, and it was USB to USB, and it took 62 minutes (while I was having lunch.) But, it was one step and the end result was perfect - proportionally resizing partitions.

BTW - cloning requires no restoration. And, actual speed depends on several factors to include your CPU speed, and the type of data link between the drives.
 
Originally posted by: corkyg
With TI, you can clone a 200 GB drive in about 11 minutes if SATA to SATA or PATA to SATA, and about 35 minutes via USB.
Click to expand...

The amount of time it takes depends on how much data you have on the drive.
If your 200GB drive was full, it would take much longer than just 11 minutes.
 
Originally posted by: Navid
Originally posted by: corkyg
With TI, you can clone a 200 GB drive in about 11 minutes if SATA to SATA or PATA to SATA, and about 35 minutes via USB.
Click to expand...

The amount of time it takes depends on how much data you have on the drive.
If your 200GB drive was full, it would take much longer than just 11 minutes.
Click to expand...

Absolutely! The point was that the data was equal and I was comparing USB to eSATA for the same task. Ie., the job was 35 minutes via PATA/USB vs. 11 minutes with SATA/eSATA. The data content was a constant.

 
Originally posted by: corkyg
Originally posted by: Navid
Originally posted by: corkyg
With TI, you can clone a 200 GB drive in about 11 minutes if SATA to SATA or PATA to SATA, and about 35 minutes via USB.
Click to expand...

The amount of time it takes depends on how much data you have on the drive.
If your 200GB drive was full, it would take much longer than just 11 minutes.
Click to expand...

Absolutely! The point was that the data was equal and I was comparing USB to eSATA for the same task. Ie., the job was 35 minutes via PATA/USB vs. 11 minutes with SATA/eSATA. The data content was a constant.
Click to expand...

That is fare.

However, the OP asked in his second post "Anyone has any idea how long it will take to image a 40gb partition?".

Following that, the statement "With TI, you can clone a 200 GB drive in about 11 minutes" can be quite misleading.
One may think that you are suggesting that a 40GB partition can be imaged in 11minutes / 200 X 40 = 2 minutes!
 
1. Plug in new HDD.
2. Boot with Acronis Boot Media (CD or USB, your choose).
3. Clone old drive to new drive.
4. Go out and get dinner.
5. Remove Acronis boot media, shut down computer, remove old drive and replace with new one.
6. ...
7. Profit!
 
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