Macrium Reflect vs Acronis

f14tomcat said:

I was just including that as a tidbit to what SoFine posted. Had nothing at all to do with your posts. Nothing.

Same here, just including that as a tidbit to get the point across that the choice of merely omitting a feature that many people find important is still something that requires zero engineering.

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Superfly said:

I'm an MCSD,

After I graduated in IT almost 20 years ago, I became a Java Enterprise software developer because they earn more money than an MCSD.

I am in the process of replacing my E: hard drive with an SSD.

• HD: WDC Black (2TB) Internal SATA
• SSD: Intel 660P (2TB) Internal M.2 PCIe SSD Adapter

I am using ATI 2021 within Window 10 to clone the hard drive. The estimated time is about 7 hours. Is this normal? Would booting the standalone ATI Rescue Media been any faster? Would Macrium Reflect work about the same?

cereberus said:

I can clone 50 GB with Reflect in about 10 mins, so 300 in 1 hr, so 2 TB in around 7 hours as well.

Of course, that assumes 2 TB drive is full up. So if HDD is 50% full, it would take around 3.5 hrs. Reflect does not clone unused space (unless you tell it to).

However if drive is full, it makes no sense to replace a full 2 TB hdd with a 2 TB HDD.

The hard drive is about 75% full. When I am done I plan to only have two M.2 NVME SSDs in that computer.

I have a 12TB external hard drive for backups. I have an external SATA/USB enclosure. I may put the 2TB hard drive in the enclosure and use that as a secondary backup for the computer.

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aussiekendoll said:

yesterday Acronis failed to restore the image , no matter what it constantly telling there is a problem restoring the image and the Acronis GUI is very buggy and slow, i am not gonna use it again. Ill continue using Macrium reflect.

Build 39216 March 30, 2021
ATI 2021 now starts up a lot faster. Also, the navigation in the menus is much faster.

Now it takes 10-15 seconds to start the program. It seemed like it took over a minute with previous builds.

If I switch between backups in the main menu it now takes about 1 second. Before it must have been at least 10 seconds.

I was an Acronis groupie for years - Over the final few years it became unreliable when trying to restore in certain situations. Restore situations that were tested successfully would fail when tried at later dates. I switched to Macrium a year or so ago- It is rocksolid reliable, which is my number one absolute requirement. Once you get used to the interface, it is straightforward. I do think that Macrium backs up slower than Acronis. Acronis used all cores while Macrium uses one. But there is no question that Macrium is the right choice. I wish I had switched sooner- I did a Macrium trial a few years back when I first experienced Acronis issues. I did not understand the Reflect interface and so continued with Acronis a few more years before almost losing my system after being unable to get Acronis restore to work. This experience scared me and forced me to give Macrium a second try - I'm very happy and not looking back