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Yet another (hopefully the definitive) SSD Alignment Thread

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OK, so Knowledge Base article 2699, ("Solid State Drive Support in Acronis Products") says:

The following Acronis products have full Solid State Drive (SSD) support:

  • Acronis True Image Home 2011
  • Acronis Disk Director 11 Home

However I can't find enough detail in any of the product info to answer a simple question (that will determine whether or not I upgrade): If I buy one of these two products, can I use it to realign my existing Windows XP partition so it is on 4kB boundaries?  (And if so, how?)

This has been discussed in this forum (and the previous one) for so long in so many threads that I would imagine Acronis would be showing it as a key feature ("Speeds up SSDs up to 2x!") and have KB articles explaining how to use it, etc.

So is TI and/or DD there yet?

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OK, so what I ended up doing was a new XP install:

  • Backed up all my data
  • Booted from Parted Magic boot CD
  • Secure Erased my SSD to make it "like new" (https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase)
  • Used Parted Magic to create an NTFS partition aligned on a 1MB boundary (Disk Director 10 or 11 might have been able to do the same thing, but if it does, Acronis doesn't seem interested in promoting that feature)
  • Did a fresh WinXP install from my nLite slipstreamed install CD (finding out about nLite and slipstreaming had to be the most fun part of this whole thing)

Ended up with an XP install on an aligned partition!  Here's a great thread on how to optimize it further after that.

Do you happen maybe to have find out since then If DD (11?) & TI (2011?) automatically (at least), align partitions accordingly in cases of SSDs & AF HDDs?

For SSDs, ATI will automatically align a partition when you prepare a new disk, when you restore a single partition (case where you can resize it), and when you restore an entire disk that is aligned.
If you restore an entire disk using an image of a non-aligned disk, the restored disk will not be aligned.

If you clone a disk that is not aligned, the cloned disk will not be aligned.
If you clone a disk that is aligned, the cloned disk will be aligned.

Thanks for the clarification.

About ATI 2010 now,

- If i have an ATI 2010 image of an unaligned disk (an XP installation) and i am going to restore it to a disk that is already aligned, will the restored partition be aligned ?

- If i have an ATI 2010 image of an aligned partition (a win 7 installation) and i am going to restore it anywhere, will the restored partition be aligned ?

- Can ATI 2010 restore ATI 2011 images ?

Anatoli,

I am not very familiar with ATI 2010. Maybe others can comment.