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If you take an image of a complete drive, it is called a clone. That is different to imaging which goes per partition. And most free imaging programs cannot do cloning. For that you usually need the commercial versions.
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New #1282
I beg to differ with you on this. Most all imaging program can make a image of a complete drive and restore that image at any time, a hour/day/week/month/whatever time later, and preserve the structure of the drive as it was when the image was made. That is not cloning.
Cloning is a direct copy from one drive to another in REAL time, Now.
So if you want to call a image of a complete drive that is store for any length time a clone you can but it really isn't the same thing.
I don't know of any program that does cloning to store that clone for use at a later time/date.
And cloning is a bit by bit copy where as a image is compressed and then expanded on restoring that image.
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New #1284
Sorry if somehow I pissed you off. I wasn't trying to.
No I don't know all this. I am learning as I go. Yes somethings I do know, others I learn and hopefully retain.
Thanks for all your help.
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New #1286
Great SSD, mine is now in my laptop, adds some serious zoom
Sequential Read seems alright, maybe even on the high side.
The access times should be in the 0.09....ms range.
Updated firmware?
ACHI or IDE?
Driver?
Intel Toolbox? Did you run the optimization?
Any tweaks?
You can get most of this info from the AS SSD benchmark, you don't have to run the benchmark, it is in the upper left corner when you open it.
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New #1287
That is correct Shootist but you first must individually select/tick the box of each partition to image the whole drive but also having the option of restoring fewer partitions than backed up. In which case you are imaging all partitions of the drive.
A true Clone to which whs is referring to backs up the entire selected drive without asking for partition selection then asks for a destination where the data is immediately transferred.
@ whs some free versions of Acronis will also clone the drive, My Western Digital version does both imaging and cloning wheras the Intel - data migration tool (also Acronis) will only immediately clone one drive to another offering to upgrade to the full version if you want more features.
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New #1289
Honestly I haven't Cloned a drive in years. I tried it once with some proprietary drive makers software, back when big drives were 1-5GBs, and it took hours and hours. I could of and did do a reinstall of the OS and all my software in less time.
Yes all Aconis TI versions I have used have the ability to clone a drive but I have never used that feature so I have no idea how it work with TI. After my first experiences with cloning I opted for imaging as my method of moving OS programs and data from one drive to another or direct copying from drive to drive in the case of Data only.
If you and whs say the cloning feature in TI can save a clone of one drive to later be placed on another drive then OK I take your word on that. But that was not my original experience with cloning software. You had to connect both drives, boot the PC from a disk (floppy or CD) with the software, select the source disk then the destination disk and click OK. Then wait.
I'm going to reimage my main drive tonight in preparation for the arrival of the SSD so I'll give the clone feature a try. I'm going to take that image & load it on another 250GB drive, Make all the changes to the partitions sizes so all the partitions will fit on the SSD without having to resize them during the restore then make another image of that drive to load on the SSD. Making sure the alignment stays in the correct place with each image/restore.
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New #1290
You are right. The WD version of Acronis does have a clone feature. I used it recently. It takes about 10 minutes and works perfectly.
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