Restoring an image with IFL - wear leveling and TRIM
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:10 pm
I've settled on making and restoring C: partition images on my Windows 10 computer using the IFL thumb drive. The computer has an SSD. I'm having trouble understanding in what state an image restore would leave the drive with repect to wear leveling, erased blocks, and TRIM. Assuming the restored image is at least to some extent different from the state of the drive before the restore, a restore would leave some blocks no longer being used, but it's not clear how the drive would ever be told they are no longer valid and should be erased. It seems you would have to TRIM the entire partition as invalid before restoring the image so the drive would eventually erase everything not written by the restore. Does IFL do that, or something like that? Can someone clarify how this all works with SSDs? Also, should I be using the RE thumb drive instead of IFL to have this work right, or does it not matter?