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SSD to SSD imaging OK?

gamefreakgcb

gamefreakgcb

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Hi all, my current system is set up and running with a 64GB SF-1200 based SSD, I am probably going to upgrade to an Intel 510 120GB drive. Now I was wondering if there was a way to image the entire SSD to another without a performance degrade. Is it possible? Or should I do a new install on the new drive?
 
I've used Acronis's backup/restore function to move from SSD to SSD without issue. When moving from a smaller drive to a larger, you'll have to open up the disk management screen to enable the use of the additional free space since the OS will think it's on a drive the same size as the original image.
 
Intel Data Migration software should be able to do it. There's a youtube video of someone using it to clone an SSD to Intel SSD.
 
Acronis would work, but I don't believe it keeps disk partition alignment intact.... at least not the 2010 version.
 
I've used Acronis for spindle drive to SSD and the system is not as stable as it was with just spindle drive. I don't know if this is because of Acronis or if it's just the SSD. I get occassional lock ups... like one a month or something when I'm using P2P. It's not happened while I'm using the PC in a while.
 
bradley said:
Acronis would work, but I don't believe it keeps disk partition alignment intact.... at least not the 2010 version.
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Acronis True Image Home 2011 works fine and maintains alignment. I have used it to go from a 120GB Intel G2 to a Crucial C300 128GB without issues. Performance is great!
 
If using older versions of Ghost, do a Partition to image, not a Disk to ... etc. The latest version of Ghost Solution Suite 2.5.1 2269 is supposed to work although I have not tried it yet.
 
Last night I just used the following:
1. Bootable Ubuntu USB stick
2. sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sde conv=noerror,notrunc bs=512
(sda was my old 80gb Intel SSD, sde was my "new" 160gb Intel SSD)
3. Remove "old" drive from system
4. Boot with/from new drive in system
5. Open up LDM (Windows Logical Disk Manager), select the active boot partition, and extend the partition to fill the rest of the drive (or as desired)

Windows was none the wiser. The only trouble came when I wanted to wipe the old drive, since technically the drive signatures were identical, it caused a collision in the volume mounter. I had to reboot into Ubuntu and wipe the partition/drive from then, sync out, reboot into Windows, and then it was happy since the old drive no longer had any signatures on it. At that point I ran secure erase, and now the 80gb is on its merry way to a new home.

Prettttttty sure this process won't work well for drives with different sector alignments though.
 
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