Restoring to an SSD from dissimilar hardware
I read the Acronis documentation and I understand that they have "full support" (with the Plus pack) to restore from a mechancial disk drive to a solid state disk drive; i.e. to dissiimilar hardware.
However, I understand that restoring an image to an SSD means that performance will suffer. Is this the case and how bad does performance suffer? Is there a way to avoid suffering?
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Jerome Kreuser wrote:I read the Acronis documentation and I understand that they have "full support" (with the Plus pack) to restore from a mechancial disk drive to a solid state disk drive; i.e. to dissiimilar hardware.
As Grover said, restoring to another type of disk is not a dissimilar hardware case if you restore on the same computer, and there is not change in the disk interface (ie you don't change your BIOS settings from RAID to AHCI/SATA, for example).
However, I understand that restoring an image to an SSD means that performance will suffer. Is this the case and how bad does performance suffer? Is there a way to avoid suffering?
When you restore you have to take care of partition alignment, otherwise the performance will be significantly reduced. Once you have ensured your disk is aligned, there is no performance degradation risk. Note that you will have to tweak your OS settings for an SSD. When you install Windows 7 on an SSD, that installer take care of the tweaks automatically. Not true for XP or Vista. See this post: http://forum.acronis.com/forum/26162
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Thanks for the comments: Just to confirm; i am running a three year old Lenovo T61 on XP (32-bit machine). I will purchase an entirely new computer (don't now what yet) with an SSD running Windows 7; 64-bit. I want to restore to my new computer. It is all the multitude of various programs I worry about having to move and the loss of performance. Will I experience any suffering of performance or is there something I should do to ensure it goes smooth? Thanks.
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To restore to another computer, it is dissimilar hardware. You will have to purchase the Acronis Plus Pack, install it and create a bootable media that will then include the Universal Restore feature.
During the restore with that feature, you need to make the chipset drivers of the new computer available to ATI (they cannot be on the disk you restore to!). The drivers need to be in an *OEM or *INF format. Sometimes copying the contents of the driver folder from the new computer to a disk that will be available during the restore will work. Sometimes Universal Restore cannot sort things out and your only alternative is to try some other backup software with Universal Restore or simply reinstall your apps.
Don't forget that you will lose Windows 7 on your new computer and go back to XP.
If I were you, I would reinstall my apps on my new computer...
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