Can Acronis TI make efficient use of SSD?
I'm considering getting a solid state drive for my laptop. I do frequent partition re-imaging using TI and was hoping that, with a SSD, I'd get quicker re-image times. What I want to make sure of is that TI is not the bottle neck. If I use a SSD instead of a traditional platter HDD, will Acronis re-image the partition more quickly? Or does the translation from .tib to data take the same amount of time regardless of hard drive type?

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eyesight:
It's difficult to provide a definitive answer to your question since it will depend on where the bottleneck is in your particular PC - with the disk transfer rate, the memory access time, or the processor speed. On my system the bottleneck has always been the disk transfer rate at 60 MB/s. After swapping out the mechanical hard disk for an SSD I can image at over 100 MB/s, IF and ONLY IF the image file is written to another partition on the same SSD. When writing it to a another PC across the network it's still 60 MB/s since the limitation is the disk transfer rate of the destination PC.
You may need to run a quick test to find an answer to your question.
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Thanks Mark... I plan to put my image on a partition on the SSD as well... My processor would definitely be the bottleneck. I just wanted to make sure that the conversion process (.tib to disk image) isn't so intense that it would negate the benefits of a SSD.
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eyesight:
If your PC is processor-speed limited then you may not see any difference in imaging time. However, the benefits of an SSD show up in other ways. Getting an SSD for my laptop was one of the best improvements that I've made to it. Booting Windows 7 decreased from 40 sec to 15 sec, and the machine seems so much faster. I'd go for it anyway, regardless of imaging performance.
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Not sure how to qualify if the processor will be a bottleneck or not. I'm not even sure if it currently is... I can currently reimage from a USB 2.0 connected external drive, reimage a 10GB partition in 13 minutes. No clue if that's normal.
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