Norton Ghost and SSD

UaVaj

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Does anyone know exactly how Norton Ghost writes to a ssd?

Looking to ghost image a 128gb ssd with single partition with 25gb of data.

Obviously the ghost image will be 25gb and the partition info will be 128gb.

*** So when doing a restore. Does ghost just write just the 25gb back to the ssd or does ghost write the whole 128gb to the ssd?

This was a none issue on traditional hard drive because write cycle did not matter, however with ssd, write cycles do matter. Do not want to waste unnecessary write cycles.
 
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WilliamM2

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It only writes the 25Gb with a standard hard drive, don't see why an SSD would be any different.

Can you imagine how long an image or restore would take with a 3TB drive otherwise?