Be careful with Rollback RX

[Guest Keatah]

http://www.rollbacksoftware.com/

Be careful with this.

This program is actively harming your SSD by doing two things:

It turns off TRIM and that effects drive life and performance.

It does defrag operations in the background.

 

In a nutshell, this program is plays sleight of hand with the directory structure and sector mappings to allow you to reset your computer backwards or forwards in time. The product works exactly as advertised in the video and does exactly what the advertisements say it will do. And it does it reliably.

 

But it will also kill your SSD prematurely. It disables TRIM and does background defrag operations on the snapshots it takes. [mod edit]As has been much discussed[mod edit], SSD's shouldn't be defragged. Many people have asked if such a program will work with TRIM because of how sectors are remapped outside of Windows' awareness.

 

The company has been very nebulous in it's reponse and recently a bunch of guys on WildersSecurityForums have discovered the truth. http://www.wildersse...ad.php?t=341033

 

The advertisement says "It works with TRIM", in reality it works with TRIM by disabling it! It relabels the SSD as a RAID array, for which TRIM doesn't work with anyways. So by a huge stretch of the definition "works with" means, here, that TRIM detects and deactivates itself because your SSD is reporting it's a RAID device.

 

This is another example of mis-leading advertising. So if you are using this program as a safety net, I suggest you stop. Just go with tried and true regular imaging. Eventually they will solve the problem I'm sure.

Edited February 7, 2013 by Nergal
edited to remove unintended insulting phrase

[Nergal]

wow that's a scary thing indeed

[Alan_B]

Many thanks for the warning.

 

I do not use Rollback myself.

I have just seen a post in the Wilders Topic from a fellow OCZ SSD user who uses Rollback RX but thinks his SSD is not affected.

I am not so sure.

 

I searched the OCZ forum for "RollBack" and found nothing recent and relevant,

so forwarded a warning and suggest that OCZ investigate and if relevant enhance their Toolbox to detect and warn of any such problem

http://www.ocztechno...read.php?109175

[Guest Keatah]

I don't use it either, I just use imaging. But I have recommended it to others in the past. Let's see what OCZ says. Maybe it's nothing. But the guys on Wilders sure got me going on this!

 

Also on the flipside. Why should we have to baby and pussyfoot our SSD's ?? This tells me they're not really ready for prime time just yet. Getting there. But still..!