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Background:
My system currently looks like this:
400GB OS drive with W7 x64 (only ~40GB full after months of bloating)
400GB drive for torrents, downloads, STEAM games and other games
1.5TB - TV, music and other data
1.5TB - movies and other data
Every three weeks or so, I image my OS drive with Acronis 2010.
I'm getting an Intel x25-M G2 80GB SSD in a few weeks to use as an OS drive.
Questions:
I tried to understand partition alignment but didn't get far. If I do a clean install of Windows 7 on a virgin SSD, will the installer take care of alignment?
Once my system is up and running, I plan to use Acronis to image my SSD every 3-4 weeks. If I was to restore such an image back to my SSD, would it harm alignment?
My system currently looks like this:
400GB OS drive with W7 x64 (only ~40GB full after months of bloating)
400GB drive for torrents, downloads, STEAM games and other games
1.5TB - TV, music and other data
1.5TB - movies and other data
Every three weeks or so, I image my OS drive with Acronis 2010.
I'm getting an Intel x25-M G2 80GB SSD in a few weeks to use as an OS drive.
Questions:
I tried to understand partition alignment but didn't get far. If I do a clean install of Windows 7 on a virgin SSD, will the installer take care of alignment?
Once my system is up and running, I plan to use Acronis to image my SSD every 3-4 weeks. If I was to restore such an image back to my SSD, would it harm alignment?