SSD OS / partition
Hello everyone, Please ttell me if it's recommended to partition 1 SSD ( Samsung 500 GB) with 2 partitions
100 GB for Windows and the rest as a second partition, where i backup the OS
Woould that be a good idea? Thank you
Everytime after the backup, i put the backup on my external HDD, just in case
The reason for SSD is the speed. I have actually another internal 3 TB HDD
Is that faster to backup and restore from SSD vs HDD, or not really?
One more question, please : are those backup images, stored on computer, vulnerable by malware, viruses??
Thank you
Attx, that is good that you have more than one backup storage location.
In principle it should be quicker to backup / restore to / from SSD than HDD but in reality it will depend on the impact of having the source / target on the same SSD. Backup / restore between SSD and HDD should be operating at the maximum speed of the HDD given that the SSD is much faster to read or write from/to. SSD to / from SSD with 2 such drives should be the fastest combination.
Any backup images that are stored on accessible drives are vulnerable to malware, viruses, ransomware threats. I am not aware of any such threats that target .TIB files specifically but given the intent behind such malware, then it would make sense (in a warped way) for the malware authors to target any very large files in the assumption that these may be valuable backup files.
There has been a number of discussions in these forums on the subject of ransomware etc but in a nutshell, the only safe way of protecting against this is to have some backup storage kept completely disconnected from any computer and only use this when booting from Acronis bootable Rescue Media again completely offline, so that any recovery can be done as if for bare-metal with no internet connectivity.
Attx,
Steve is correct...the link below shows that Acronis files are targeted by malware.
https://forum.acronis.com/forum/128369
Below is a link that Steve put together with some Ransomware discussions on this blog.
Malware Ransomware aside, backup/recovery speed depends on a number of variables which all have an impact on performance. You cannot rely on disk interface speed (ie PATA, SATA I II III, PCIe) as an indicator of expected performance.
Example, it is much faster to backup an entire disk drive rather than folder/files because a disk backup is done at the block level (entire blocks of data processed and transfered at one time) whereas a folder/file backup happens one file at a time.
Bottom line is speed is a relative and not something that should drive your decision on how to create backups.
If the system has USB 3/3.1 port you and you want speedy external backup, there are several SSD USB drives that would make the process much quicker. So far I have resisted buying one -
Ian