Acronis True Image 2017 & M.2 drives?
Hi, new (prospective) user here.
- Does Acronis True Image 2017 work 100% reliably with M.2 SSDs in NVMe mode?
- Where I worked in the past, the System Administrator used to use an earlier version of Acronis True Image to make an image copy of a freshly configured abd patched system which could then be restored in the event of corruption or virus attack. I am currently building a home system from scratch, will the strategy described above still work?
Thanks


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Ditto to Steve's notes.
FYI if you leave the SATA mode as AHCI for NVME drives, the default Linux media works fine. however, WinPE is needed to address RAID mode in the bios as NVME drives are typically shipped with SATA set to RAID (even for a 1 drive setup) because NVME drives can take advantage of larger queue depths that are limited by AHCI.
Does the normaly home user really need those deeper queue depths - in most cases, probably not. However, if you want the potential for maximum performance of an NVME PCIE hard drive, then the SATA mode should be RAID. That is when you need WinPE, so you can inject RAID controller drivers in it to support RAID mode in the bios. The MVP tool includes the Intel Rapid Storage Technology (IRST) driver by default and also allows the user user to supply other third party drivers of their own more easily into the build process.
But if you're using AHCI as the SATA mode, you can use the default Linux media just fine.
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