Will the image of windows and all PC disks taken by acronis take as much as they do now?

Question

Windows

For example:
Disk C occupied by 109 GB
Disk F occupied by 124 GB
Disk G occupied by 61 GB
Total - 294 GB
I want to make an image of Windows and disk partitions that are on the computer. I now have an SSD and Winchester #1. Do I understand correctly that the image of Windows and partitions taken by acronis will weigh 294 gigabytes, which will need to be saved to hard drive No. 2, which is not there yet and I plan to buy it for this business? And if you remove the SSD and Winchester No. 1, then I can deploy the system on the computer with all the disks on the hard drive No. 2, and all Windows settings, networks, drivers, program settings will be saved?
Please tell me, did I understand correctly?
PS the hardware will be the same where Windows was

Answer 1

in the Acronis settings there are masks of files that are not included in the image and the ability to change the compression level

Answer 2

Well, you are about right about everything.
it may be necessary to provide before the image of the SSD, in the matter of transfer, tk. subsequent launch is provided on a SATA disk.
and the data from the partitions will be transferred without problems.
well, the degree of compression will reduce the space in the image.

Answer 3

The size of the image file will take up slightly less space than the occupied space of all logical drives. Or a lot, depending on the types of files, but if you have ordinary movies-music-toys, then these are already, basically, archives and they won’t compress too much.
But! You do not need the file size, Acronis will simply take a "snapshot" from one hard drive to another, without wasting time on compression - decompression, after which you can create another partition in free space or move existing ones, you already have a backup (source disk ). Do not forget to copy only MRB (or EFI) and the Windows service partition, 100 MB at the beginning of the disk when copying.
Yes, I mean, first take a picture of the SSD, and then a picture of the screw.