Does 2010 Retain offset for SSD's

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I have read several posts here with this question and have yet to see a clear yes or no from Acronis staff.  I know 2009 did not, nor did TI-11, as  have used both.

I am installing Win 7 on a new SSD.  I will be setting it up for a 64 offset.  I do a full disk image, followd by 12 incramental images.  The computer is backed up every other day.  Will TI-2010 retain the 64 offset automatically?  If not, is there an option available in the menu that allows this feature?  This has been brought up COUNTLESS times, this feature needs to be available.  SSDS are now very common, and a correct offset affords a significant performance advantage

Fri, 09/25/2009 - 05:19
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In my tests with Vista created partitions (2048 offset), TI 2010 kept the offset when restored back into the existing partition. I assume the same would be true for a Windows 7 partition, though I haven't had time to test it.

There is the "space before" option, but it doesn't work properly so there's no way I found to specify an exact value if it didn't already exist (unallocated space, for example).

It would be nice if Acronis would respond directly to this issue. The lack of control is irritating.

Fri, 09/25/2009 - 05:27
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There is a work around on the OCZ forums that has a tutorial video.  It basicly states that you

  1. create an image
  2. render the drive raw, and use diskpart to create offset from a Vista rescue CD
  3. resore the NFTS partition ONLY
  4. reboot into acronis
  5. restore the MBR ONLY
  6. reboot

I have not tried this yet, probably will tomorrow.  It would be nice however if Acronis would step up and answer a question now and then for their paying customers.  Got an e-mail today trying to get me to upgrade to TI 2010,  If I cant even get support on a forum, I think not. 

**UPDATE**

Just restored using this method.  Worked like a charm.  Reads went from 186 MB/s to 207 MB/s.  Considering this is about 5-6X faster than old internal HD, I have NO complaints.  Disable a few small features like indexing etc. and move firefox cache to memory instead of HD and Win 7 boots in seconds with immediate reaction to all HD requests.  Have old internal 320GB drive connected USB for my "D" drive to hold files that need a lot of space or regular writes/rewrites

Sat, 09/26/2009 - 18:13