ATI 2015 on Windows 8.1 - Very Slow Backing Up
I am seeking suggestions concerning my Acronis True Image 2105 Premium, 3PC, Build 6613.
I wanted an small HTPC so a couple months ago I purchased a Zotac ZBOX BI320 Plus Windows 8.1 with Bing (Intel Celeron 2957U, dual-core, 1.4 GHz). I installed 8GB of Crucial RAM and a WD Blue 1TB HDD for storage. I checked for and installed all current drivers and BIOS for this unit before putting it into “production”. Although capable of using UEFI/GPT, the device came from the factory with BIOS/MBR so I left it.
This weekend I replaced the OEM Foresee 64GB SSD mSATA main drive with a Sandisk X300 256GB mSATA drive (I know I have voided the warranty). Due to the hardware limitations of this mini-PC, I could not perform a cloning operation. Instead, I used an Acronis Recovery bootable USB drive to backup the Foresee drive to the internal WD HDD then recover to the Sandisk drive. There was an issue on recovery -- each time I tried to resize the partitions when recovering, Windows 8.1 could not be found on booting. So I had to do an exact drive recovery then use another app to move/resize the partitions. Everything is now working wonderfully and I have more room to install applications on my larger C:\ partition.
The issue I have is using the installed ATI 2015 to create normal backups to the internal HDD. The C:\ drive has only 35GB used. I left the backup running overnight and in the morning, only 10GB had be processed after 9 hours. Why so slow?? I am not using encryption and only normal compression.
I used the USB-based Acronis to do a backup and it took 17 minutes, including Validation. I have confirmed that the backup is complete.
What is it about the Windows 8.1-based Acronis that is making it so unreasonable for doing backups? Actually, now that I am writing this, I remember that the unreasonable amount of time also happened with the original SSD drive, so it’s not related to the new Sandisk drive. Accordingly, I have not re &re Acronis after the drive change.
I am comfortable doing the USB-based backups but it is inconvenient and can’t be scheduled/automated nor can I get status notifications emailed to me.
I also have the same ATI 2015 installed on my main desktop which has an OCZ SSD drive as its C:\ drive (Intel i7, Windows 7-64 bit). I have nightly data backups and weekly system backups scheduled to internal HDDs. These backups work flawlessly and the file recoveries I have done were without difficulties.
Please excuse this long message … this is my first entry and I tried to cover all the bases in one go.