Will Acronis work on SSD?

To be on the safe side, I just bought the latest version of Acronis....

Do I still need to format the SSD before putting it in my tower to use the Acronis image?

The Acronis website says it does all that for you... I was just curious if I should format the SSD to it will be recognized which ya have t6o do sometime with a standard drive.

I use Acronis for onging imaging operations and it's only $50 which is subsidized by the government cause I write it off my company taxes

Well... I got it installed OK. Bought the latest version of Acronis (it's only $50) just to make sure it would do the trick without any problems and it did. It was just like installing a standard hard drive.

But, I'm kinda disappointed cause it doesn't seem to be hardly any faster than the WD 10k drive I was using for my C drive. Is there anything else I'm supposed to do in order to get the full benefit of having an SSD?

Windows installed some drivers automatically at first boot up and told me to reboot, so it sounds like Win 7 recognizes this is an SSD.

Rockrz said:

And, is enabling AHCI a requirement?
AHCI : Enable in Windows 7 / Vista

The value in the registry was already at ' 0 ' so apparently AHCI was already enabled in Windows.

Anything else I should be lookin at?

It just don't seem to be much faster than what I had... I can tell a little bit, but not real much.

Well, I did install the Samsung Magician and ran their benchmark and saw the notice that each time this is done is decreases the life of the drive.

I also ran their OS Optimizer and disabled Superfetch, defrag, and indexing which should help.

Here's the benchmark I got...
https://www.sevenforums.com/attachmen...1&d=1357460370

OK, here's a couple of screen shots from both progs that have been suggested...

https://www.sevenforums.com/attachmen...1&d=1357492476