It was my understanding that having trim enabled during a restore can mess with proper 4k partition alignment. I could see your point, but partition alignment remains an issue. It's also worth noting that disabling trim before image creation is important because it reduces the amount of caching required for the source drive on systems with TRIM enabled by disabling TRIM during the backup operation. When TRIM is enabled the original contents of deleted sectors must be cached, whereas a normal delete doesn’t overwrite the sectors and instead just updates the directory entry.
But that's just me. Maybe I've been using IFW too long.
But that's just me. Maybe I've been using IFW too long.