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Imaging SSD's

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commissioneranthony

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I'm looking to upgrade my laptop primary HDD's with SSD's. However, I like to image my primary HDD every 3 weeks to a month. Program of choice: clonezilla.
Images are great because if windows decided to stop working from a update or some stupid MS BS, I can revert to a perfectly working machine by just inserting the imaged drive. this really helps in college, especially when your at an engineering college.

My question really is, can (2) 64gb crucial c300/ m4's handle this?

I read in this thread:
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1626395
that the c300 tends to lock up when you write too much data at once to it. I fear clonezilla will max out these SSD's because I would be doing the imaging through esata, and clonezilla will fill every last bit of that bus as fast as possible.

Haven't ever imaged SSD's before, cause I never had one.

any advice would be appreciated. Thanks guys!
 
i have never heard of this issue. There is endurance testing at another forum going on where they are just killing a C300 with 24/7 writes, and there is no mention of it ever locking up with writes.

i googled and could only find references to lockups with the old firmware issue which was fixed ages ago.

I have an array of 8 x 256GB c300 and have just raped them in every way imaginable for testing/review purposes. i have never seen this. i do note that he mentions with the 64gb specifically, but i have never heard of this and cant find other reported issues of this?
i would treat it as unsubstantiated info unless you can find other users who have replicated this.
probably a chipset issue or something with that individual users gear.

EDIT: link to testing, note the 64gb C300 has a longer projected life than any other drive :)
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SSD-Write-Endurance-25nm-Vs-34nm&p=4916268&viewfull=1#post4916268
 
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^^thanks for the info. I emailed both intel and crucial about imaging. I didnt find much about people imaging the 64gb drives. they usually just raid them, and most of the time thats on the 128gb and larger drives, not 64gb's
 
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