If you want free and guarantee to work with perfect alignment, use Windows 7 built in Backup and Restore utility and make a system image in another external USB hardisk if you have one. Boot from Windows 7 DVD installer or from your Windows 7 USB stick installer and when the main install screen comes out, choose Repair your computer, follow the screen instruction and then choose System Image Recovery (3rd option from the system recovery option menu).

Caveat is the size of the partition you are going to backup must not be more than the size of your SSD. Example, if you backup and create an image file from a 150 GB partition which is only 80 GB used (i.e. 70 GB is free), you will not be able to restore the image file to a 120 GB SSD.

I don't know if Acronis can resize / shrink the partition automatically.

1g speed ....5 sec boot time?

i think its only look good when its still new, iirc RAID0'ed SSD will lose trim support, the performance will degrade over time and will perform worst than single SSD

Nowadays SSD prices are ridiculously cheap man. I bought my OCZ VERTEX 2 last year March at rm 430, and the bullsh*t part is mine is only 60gb (actual 53gb) and sata 3gp/s somemore!! .
The newer sata 6gp/s interface is still new rite?

Nowadays SSD prices are ridiculously cheap man. I bought my OCZ VERTEX 2 last year March at rm 430, and the bullsh*t part is mine is only 60gb (actual 53gb) and sata 3gp/s somemore!! .
The newer sata 6gp/s interface is still new rite?

SSD RAID 0 TRIM Confirmed - Dreams Do Come True :
http://www.rwlabs.com/article.php?cat=&id=672&pagenumber=1

RAID 0 TRIM has indeed arrived. It won’t be long before we start seeing board manufacturers serving up 11.5.0.1582 or higher OROMs with their BIOS’s. When they do you can be confident that whether you are running Windows 7 or 8 along with the correct chipset/s and IRST driver your RAID 0 array will have functioning TRIM. Intel has delivered on their promise to give us what we’ve all been waiting for RAID 0 TRIM. As of today there is NOTHING a single drive can do that a RAID 0 Array cannot do better. This day has been a long time coming and brings with it forth coming satisfaction for thousands of INTEL RAID 0 users. Awesome job INTEL, simply awesome!

Intel has released a Rapid Storage Technology (RST) driver that enables the TRIM command for those using Intel drives with a RAID0 array. This feature has been many years in the marking, so this news will make many happy. TRIM is a command that allows an operating system to inform a solid-state drive (SSD) which blocks of data are no longer considered in use and can be wiped internally. The command improves the efficiency of your SSDs internal Garbage Collection (GC) and helps reduces write performance degradation. This function was not available for a SSD in a RAID setup. The only kicker is that it only works with Microsoft Windows 7 and with Intel 7 series chipsets. Intel is currently working on getting the feature to work with Windows 8.
Intel SSD RAID 0

"Trim on RAID 0 for SSDs is supported in the Intel RST driver versions 11.0 and newer. Currently available for the general public on Intel’s downloads site is RST driver version 11.2.0.1006 which offers TRIM support on RAID 0 compatible with MS Windows 7 OS on Intel 7 series chipsets (earlier chipsets NOT supported). Intel is also working on a future release providing support for TRIM on RAID 0 on Microsoft Windows 8 OS for Intel 7 series chipsets." - Intel PR

Perfect. TRIM works as promised, users running SSDs in RAID-0 on 7-series motherboards can enjoy the same performance maintaining features that single-drive users have.

Bringing TRIM support to RAID-0 arrays provides users with a way of enjoying next-gen SSD performance sooner rather than later, without giving up an important feature. Pretty much all high-end SSDs are capped to 6Gbps limits when it comes to sequential IO. Modern SATA controllers deliver 6Gbps per port, allowing you to break through the 6Gbps limit by aggregating drives in RAID.

The only negative here is that Intel is only offering support 7-series chipsets and not on previous hardware. While I understand Intel's desire to limit its validation costs, I don't have to be happy about it.

You can use any SSD with any laptop as long as it is using a SATA connection, even if it's SATA 1.
Right now the Intel 330 60GB is going for RM209 on Viewnet, RM330 for the 120GB. It's a better buy than the M4, for now.

In terms of reliability and performance, M4 or 330 better?

hi, i have been using m4 ssd all the while but tml im gg to change my system. i want to keep the contents of the ssd and migrate it to the new pc. can the content so that  it is usable in the new pc?

Crucial M4 128GB RAID 0
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1g speed ....5 sec boot time?

Intel RST v11.0+ Drivers Support Intel SSD TRIM on RAID 0 Arrays

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