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can't clone to hybrid drive using boot disc

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I have Trueimage 2013 and made a boot disc so that I can do functions sans the Windows environment/OS.  Anyway, I've been cloning my boot drive for a long time now and the cloned disc is bootable and works fine (I test it once in a while to make sure the clone function worked properly).

Anyway, I recently purchased a Seagate hybrid drive to replace my standard WD hard drive and when I run the clone function, somewhere along the line it stops and I have to reboot the PC.  I'm running Win10 but I seriously doubt that this is the problem because I'm not running it off the Windows OS and secondly, if I do the cloning with the destination disk being a regular non-hybrid drive, it completes the process just fine.

The hybrid drive is a Seagate 2TB drive with 64MB of SSD memory/buffer.  Is there something "special" I have to do in order for this hybrid drive to clone my regular hard drive successfully?  I was hoping to clone this drive and replace it as my boot disk in order to gain performance/speed in boot time, program execution, etc. due to it's hybrid nature.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

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HI Gary,

45886: Hybrid Drives Are Not Supported in Acronis Bootable Environment

 

You'll need to do a backup and recovery instead of a clone when you are dealing with an SSHD. Cloning will not work on dynamic disks and a hybrid is essentially a dynamic disk where there is a caching flash drive and a physical spinning drive.  It wasn't supported in 2015 so wouldn't be supported in earlier versions.  It still isn't supported in 2016 and doubt that it will be in 2017, but don't have an SSHD to test with the beta.  I gave up on SSHD's - found them to be generally slower as most have a very small flash cache that fills up and becomes the bottleneck.  As many are actually using slower 5400RPM drives as well, overall perfromance for anything other than startup and shutdown tasks is often slower than a regular spinning 7200RPM drive.   If you have the space in your PC, you might want to consider putting the OS on a 250GB SSD (you can get them for $50 on Amazon), and keeping all of your data (music, pictures, videos on a second spinning drive like a standard 2TB drive).  In the end, for only a few bucks more, you'll have much better performance via the SSD, but that's just my opinion. 

 

Thanks for your reply.  I guess that means there's no way to make my new hybrid drive the bootable C: drive because doing a backup won't be able to boot.  My hybrid drive does have a 64Gb NAND so larger than other hybrids that I've seen that had 8 or 16GB only so I'm pretty sure it would've worked better but....    Placing the OS on a pure SSHD would be great but that would mean all the apps I have installed will have to be reinstalled on drive D: or whatever meaning that apps that don't offer an option as to where you want to install it will all take up the limited real estate on the C: drive.  I guess I'll just live with it until the next new PC I buy.  Thanks again!