Using Acronis to copy a HDD to my SSD

[Kyanzes]

So, I'd like to move my system from my SCSI HDD to my SSD. I copied complete systems before and never experienced any issues but this time I need to transfer the contents of the HDD to an SSD.

Can I do this? Or more like, should I do this? Can it harm the performance of the SSD in any way? E.g., Acronis could perhaps alter something that would hinder the performance of the SSD.

Any ideas about it? I usually do a simple drive copy when it comes to HDDs.

Thanks!

 

[*kjm]

Guys on OCZ are watching this video and are reporting good results....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUu9InlfD_c

It's what I'm going to try this weekend.... my new SSD has been on my desk for about a week waiting.... in the LOTRO beta

 

[FishAk]

Since your SSD is likely smaller than your HDD, everything probably won't fit. Save and remove all your data from your OS/ programs partition, and shrink the partition to 10GB or so more than used space. Than create your image, and restore it to your SSD. You may need to align the partitions on the SSD before or after you move them. Macrium Reflect will keep alignment when imaging an already aligned partition. It sounds like Acronis won't, but I haven't tried it. Acronis is free, is easy to use, and works great

 

[JimKiler]

It will work, I moved from partition and shrunk for size to fit on my SSD earlier this year and using Acronis I had no issues. You should not have an issue as well.

 

[Kyanzes]

Thx. I followed the guide to ensure Acronis wouldn't realign the drive.

I moved all the content from a 74GB 15k RPM SCSI drive to a G2 X25-M 160GB and the new boot time cannot even be compared to the old one. I wanted an SLC drive but they are so incredibly expensive I couldn't convince myself to go for one. I'm still happy that I have chosen this one over the Samsung 256GB (4k operations).

I'm basically happy with the numbers below, the 4K write is I nice, except perhaps for the 4K read. Is that normal? I realize the write times are not that astonishing (for 512 and above) but it's still far from bad IMHO.

 

[skid00skid00]

I'm getting 20-21 on my X25 G1 after hdderase (fresh/fast).