backing up your ssd?

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do you guys who have bought a ssd back up the data thats on it? or is there no/less need to backup the data since the likley hood of an ssd ever failing is less than a regular hard drive?
 
There's still the chance of an electrical fault such as a PSU failure killing the SSD.
 
As I've only got OS and programs on the drive I'm not too concerned if something goes wrong as I'd just rebuild.

My Firefox profile is on the SSD and I should backup that up.
 
if you got windows 7 you can do an Full clone of your hard disk (you can on windows vista but never found it) just type backup in start menu and it be in there very simple backup the C: to the D: (or what ever the disk is called) it will not wipe any thing off the other disk just makes an folder with the back up in there, so if windows stops later on you can restore it using an dvd and picking repair and disk restore (on 50GB of data on my SSD it only taken 10 mins)
 
Yeah I only have os and apps, so I haven't got any data on there that's not already on a disk somewhere.

I have yet to hear someone complaining about ssd failure.
 
Just OS on mine but I`ve always kept a partition on my data drive so I can clone it to that for a backup, always done that even when using hdd for os.

Much quicker than reinstalling if anything should happen, firefox/thunderbird is backed up in the process and it only takes a quick cable swap to get back to a usable OS.
 
What do you guys use to backup your SSD's.
I used Ghost V9.0 on my old sata drive, but the same image fails on the SSD, just get "a read error occurred, press CTRL-ATL-DEL to restart".

As a result I had to do a clean install of windows....
I have Acronis and Clonezilla, but not tried either yet as Im scared they might fail as well.
 
Well regardless, I have done a clean install and created a new ghost image, hope I never need it, but know I will.... :(

Is it really needed to move temp files and disable this that and the other, I have done so but noticed boot times and file installs taking longer than when everything was on the SSD, I know the life span would be reduced, but really, is it going to be that bad, the drive has a two year warranty and by that time I would expect there to be bigger and better SSD's on the market to upgrade too for less???
 
I've got the OS and a few applications on both an SSD and HDD. If the SSD is stable for the next couple of months then I'll migrate all my HDD applications to the SSD and just use the HDD for data storage. Never have backed up anything...... I bet I can do clean installs now with my eyes closed.....:rolleyes:
 
I kept my old install on another hdd partition, so if the backup fails or i need to flash the drive, i can alter the bios boot order and load into the old hdd windows.

I have made a backup with ghost V9, but after the previous results I have no idea if it will work when needed, I tried acronis but it was taking for ever, showing 1h25min to complete?, even tried Clonezilla, but it was just as slow! Ghost only took 2m30s to backup nearly 10gb??? I know its faster than Acronis, but that was quick .
 
5er driver said:
If the SSD is stable for the next couple of months then I'll migrate all my HDD applications to the SSD and just use the HDD for data storage.
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Wait, what? Why not move everything to SSD, have a backup of programs you used to have on hdd/backup of whole ssd, would mean the 'reliability' of hdd with speed of ssd.. quite apart from the fact that your hdd is more likely to die on you than your ssd.

UKDTweak said:
I have made a backup with ghost V9, but after the previous results I have no idea if it will work when needed, I tried acronis but it was taking for ever, showing 1h25min to complete?, even tried Clonezilla, but it was just as slow! Ghost only took 2m30s to backup nearly 10gb??? I know its faster than Acronis, but that was quick .
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Sounds like you had compression enabled for Acronis, but not for Ghost. 'Standard' compression is enabled by default with Acronis, but it's not hard to turn it off.
 
I've tried with and without compression, still takes over an hour, but i just got acronis true home 2009, and it was a lot quicker then the enterprise version i was using ;)
 
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