Quick Ghosting SSDs Question

[Justintoxicated]

So If I create a Win7 Image of a machine with an SSD, then we end up using a different brand of SSD in another machine. I can't use the same image because the partitions will not be aligned properly for that SSD?

 

[Forceman]

If you use the Win 7 recovery program it should be fine, since it'll create a new (correctly aligned) partition to recover the image to. I used the Win 7 backup to clone my HD to SSD and the new partition was aligned correctly.

 

[Nickbaldwin86]

"in another machine"? as in different hardware? Windows device manager isn't going to like that on the first boot after the Ghost up.

The SSD should be fine if you use W7 recovery like Forceman stated

 

[Justintoxicated]

I guess I need to be more specific. I am using Norton Ghost create ghost images of several machine types e6500's e6400's e6410's etc. This way I can quickly create many machines for many users. Laptop hardware for each machine type machine type fairly static, but not everyone will be getting SSD's right away. So, for example, I would create 1 Image for all Dell e6410's with the same or very similar configurations that have mechanical hard disks, and a second image for e6410's that have SSD's. But Now I'm thinking that we would need a different image for every laptop that has a unique SSD installed. So if 3 months from now we stop buying C300's for example and switch to the new intel X25M G3's, I would need to create a new laptop image again for each model that we will be putting X25M G3's into? Or would the image that was used for the C300's work fine on an X25M (Aligned correctly?)

 

[Forceman]

If the version of Norton you are using is SSD aware, then you should be fine. The difference between SSDs is not the big issue, it is the difference between normal hard drives and SSDs. As long as the ghost program can correctly set the alignment on a SSD, then it can correctly set it on all of them.

They may all be the same anyway - I'm not sure about that though.