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How/Will Acronis 2018 Clone a Sabrent NVMe M.2 correctly and will it restore the clone back to the same device correctly using 4k blocks. I hear it can only use 512 blocks or am I wrong?

Sabrent gives free Acronis with their product but I chose not to use it because you have to uninstall my paid version. So, will my paid version work with Sabrent drives?

I have Windows 11, (2) Sabrent NVMe Rocket PCIe M.2 2280 SSD drives

Destination for cloning is ~same size spinning hard drives

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Chris, welcome to these public User Forums.

If you have a paid full version of ATI 2018 then this will work with your Sabrent SSD without needing to remove it to install the OEM free version supplied by Sabrent.

You haven't said what type of PC is involved here, i.e. is it a desktop / tower PC, or a laptop?

How are the target drives connected? 

Personally, I very rarely use cloning as my preference is to use Backup & Recovery instead, which is a safer option in my opinion!

It is strongly recommended that you make a Disk backup of any clone source drive before using that tool as a safety net against any issues / errors arising.  That disk backup can be used to restore a copy of the source drive to another disk.

Steve Smith wrote:

Chris, welcome to these public User Forums.

If you have a paid full version of ATI 2018 then this will work with your Sabrent SSD without needing to remove it to install the OEM free version supplied by Sabrent.

You haven't said what type of PC is involved here, i.e. is it a desktop / tower PC, or a laptop?

How are the target drives connected? 

Personally, I very rarely use cloning as my preference is to use Backup & Recovery instead, which is a safer option in my opinion!

It is strongly recommended that you make a Disk backup of any clone source drive before using that tool as a safety net against any issues / errors arising.  That disk backup can be used to restore a copy of the source drive to another disk.

 

Thank you for the reply. My PC is a large tower, X299, i9-7980XE, 32GB, 14 TB Raid 10, (2) NVMe C&D drives, water cooled 3 Rads, 14 fans, Windows 11 &  Mint OS.

I normally use the clone tool to save an image in case the drive fails or Ransomeware. I can load-up the Acronis media CD to boot and re clone back my C or D drive and takes about an hour. The backup option is tedious and complicated However, you made a good point so I should do the backup as a backup to the clone.

My main concern was the Sabrent uses 4k blocks and a spinning hard drive uses 512 blocks. Making a clone would have to convert 4k to 512 and to re clone back to the Sabrent would have to convert 512 blocks to 4k blocks, does that work okay with a full paid version of ATI 2018?

Thanks for the reply. My PC is a tower, X299, i9-7980XEm 32GB, 14TB Raid10, (2)Sabrent NVMe C& D drives, water cooled, 3 Rads, Windows 11 & Mint OS.

I normally use the clone tool to save an image in case the drive fails or Ransomeware. I can loadup the Acronis media CD to boot and re clone back my C or D drive and it takes about an hour. The backup option is tedious and complicated. However, you made a good point so I should do the backup as a backup to the clone.

My main concern was the Sabrent uses 4k blocks and a spinning hard drive uses 512 blocks. Making a clone would have to convert 4k to 512 and to re clone back to the Sabrent would have to convert 512 blocks to 4k blocks. Does that work okay with a full paid version of ATI 2018 build 15560?

Chris, see KB 45437: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office, Acronis True Image: cloning and disk/partition recovery to a disk with different logical sector size is not supported - which covers the issue of cloning from your Sabrent 4k SSD to a HDD using 512 blocks.

See also KB 16200: Acronis Software: Advanced Format Drives Support - which confirms the above KB.

However, to my knowledge, you should be able to backup from the Sabrent 4k SSD to any supported HDD and later be able to recover that backup from the HDD to the Sabrent SSD without block sizes coming into play.
Note: I have not and am not able to test this as have no 4k drives in my system.