creating a ssd image backup for later use (more detailed in description)

[EXA132]

So i've just finished the last of the windows update and have all my component's drivers up to date. I have 1 samsung 840 pro 256gb ssd as primary boot drive and a seagate barracuda 1tb as just extra storage for music, movies and excetera. So i want to create a ssd image backup image using the windows own backup and restore method. So i create this ssd back up image and save it to my barracuda. (I SAVED IT THERE NOT CLONED IT THERE.) Then i create a system repair disc aswell for a dire emergency. So in the later year if the ssd were to fail and die i still. Have that ssd image backup on my barracuda. So i go out and buy another samsung 840 pro 256gb, so i boot into the system repair disc and click the option system image recovery. I locate the backup image i did a while back and i install that into the new ssd. Can that work? Creating a ssd image backup for later use and that ssd were to fail i can go get another one and install that same backup image onto the new ssd?

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rS616jQOURg
His back up drive is my barracuda and the backup that he is trying to do (c: drive) is my ssd.

 

[Alec Mowat]

It should work. Just keep in mind, if you install programs on the 1 TB disk as well, those will also want to be added to the backup, and make it significantly larger.

 

[EXA132]

So can I also use that samsung pro 840 256gb image backup I did and put it in a bigger ssd (480gb or 512gb) if the 256gb ever failed?

 

[Alec Mowat]

So can I also use that samsung pro 840 256gb image backup I did and put it in a bigger ssd (480gb or 512gb) if the 256gb ever failed?

Yes, you can go to a larger disk, just not a smaller one.