Posted 22 July 2012 - 12:19 PM
Just finished using Acronis to Clone my System drive in my Main Desktop (Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R) to a Crucial M4 256GB SSD that I had been using elsewhere.
What a difference this has made!! Boot times and access times are fantastic!
My original Sys Drive was a WD Black WD1002FAEX but the M4 is a whole new ball game!
Acronis was pretty easy to use -- I just did the Automatic settings -- let it run and do it's thing -- then all I had to do was shut down the desktop, open it up, pull out the old WD and move the SATA wire connections.
The GSATA III ports on the X58A-UD3R aren't quite as fast as the Intel SATA III ports on newer MB's -- but they're still pretty fast in my estimate.
I used Acronis 2012 True Image Home with the Plus Pack.
Here's my ATTO of my performance Improvement:
My Write speeds are about double while my Read speeds have improved by nearly a factor of 4.
WHS-V1: HP EX-487: 4*WD20EARX, Athena AP-MFATX30, 4GB G.Skill, E5200, Stablebit Scanner-|-
WHS-2011: HP N54L G7, Kingston ECC 8GB KVR1333D3E9SK2/8G, OS: 256GB M4, 5*ST3000DM001, WD PCIe USB3, R640L, Stablebit DrivePool & Scanner -|-
Test Labs: HP N40L, G.Skill 16GB F3-1333C9D-16GAO, rr2720 -|- HP N40L, Kingston ECC 16GB KVR1333D3E9SK2/16G -|-
S2012 Hyper-V Lab: Lian-Li K9WX, GA-Z77X-UD5H, i7-3770, 32GB G.Skill, 240GB Corsair GT + various HDD's-|-
Desktop W8P64: HAF 932,GA-X58A-UD3R,i7-930,12GB,240GB Corsair GS + various HDD's,HD5850,Samsung Series9 & 213T+Planar PX2710MW,C920 -|-
HTPC3 W8P64WMC: GD05B, GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3, i5-2500K, 16GB G.Skill, Corsair GTX 240GB, Crucial M4 256GB , C910, Camtasia-|-
Laptop W8P64WMC: Acer 1810T, 4GB RAM, 240GB Corsair GT SSD-|-
