Quick SSD Question

[crazyfool]

Hey guys,
I hoping to upgrade and downsize to an i5 m-itx rig in a couple weeks but don't currently have the money to upgrade my ssd as well (from an intel x25-v 40gb). This may sound stupid but with a hdd I could install everything, image it and then swap out the hdd with another one and restore the image. Could I do this with my ssd when I upgrade? I don't how this would affect trim or anything else. Anyone know?

[Zak33]

I don't think you can image a HDD and place it onto an SSD

I believe it's an alingment of the data issue.... but I really am clueless apart from that.. and .. probably.. INCLUDING that....

actually.. igore me and wait for someone who knows to come past

[crazyfool]

haha, thanks for trying lol
But just to clarify I'm not imaging a HDD onto an SSD. I have an SSD, I want to image that onto whichever SSD I upgrade to.

[aidanjt]

You can image it, but the partitions *may* be misaligned, the worst that will happen there is taking a performance hit. I'm also unsure how NTFS determines TRIM availability, I'm pretty sure it checks for disk rotation speed on boot, and tries to enable TRIM if the reported speed is 0. So that shouldn't be a problem. Basically, it couldn't hurt to try.

If you used Windows 7 default partition layout (100mb boot partition, rest going into the system partition) you shouldn't have any problems.

[ik9000]

I'm fairly sure I read that using GUID/GPT formatted drives (HDD or SSD) with windows 7 will allow auto-alignment of information to the drive. Will see if I can hunt down the article tomorrow.

[spoon_]

Why would you do disk level backup/restore?

Isn't is easier to do it at file level?

ImageX should be your next friend

[MaddAussie]

I used the windows 7 back up tool when moving to my SSD, tempted to try a format to see if its ant quicker

[Sputnik]

I used the windows 7 back up tool when moving to my SSD, tempted to try a format to see if its ant quicker

Have you checked for alignment?

[NoPrisoners]

I don't think you can image a HDD and place it onto an SSD

I believe it's an alingment of the data issue.... but I really am clueless apart from that.. and .. probably.. INCLUDING that....

actually.. igore me and wait for someone who knows to come past

I have imaged a HDD onto an SSD and it worked ok, performance as expected.

[MoonPig]

I believe you can, but i never would.

It takes me 45mins - 1 hour to install and configure windows. I prefer the freshness. I tend to format monthly now-a-days.

[badass]

I have imaged a HDD onto an SSD and it worked ok, performance as expected.

Just make sure you switch off Windows 7's automatic defragging (if you use windows 7 of course)

[ik9000]

oh **** guess what I'm checking when I get home....