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Acronis products support Solid State Drives (SSD) with certain limitations

Description

The following Acronis products have full Solid State Drive (SSD) support:

• Acronis Backup & Recovery 11
• Acronis True Image Home 2011
• Acronis True Image Home 2012
• Acronis Disk Director 11 Home

All other Acronis products support Solid State Drives (SSD) with certain limitations:

• You can perform all the same operations with SSDs as with regular hard disk drives;
• There are no special partition alignment mechanisms required to keep the partitions offset which is optimal for SSD drives. In other words when you restore an image to an SSD drive, it will get the default 63 sectors offset instead of 64kb (or a multiple of 64kb) offset recommended for SSD drives even if this offset was in place when the image had been created. This may result in a drop of performance on certain models of SSD drives after the restore;
• Support for SSD drives is also planned for the next version of the Acronis Backup & Recovery product line.

More information

A multiple of 64kb (most commonly, 1024kb or 2048 sectors) is the recommended offset for SSD disks.

Full support details:

• If you restore or clone a disk image to an SSD disk, the offset will be automatically set to the default 1024kb (2048 sectors).
• If you restore a partition backup to a target empty partitioned disk (SSD), the target SSD disk will keep its original offset.