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OK, so today I restored to first, smaller (Kingston V300 120GB ) disk and it worked fine first and than the second time. Same conditions, same .mring, same rescue disk, disk cleaned up, re-partitoned, formatted etc., same routine I do all the time since time immemorial (for me). It worked fine, no problems during or after.
So, now I'm left confused should I trust it or not.
Just to reiterate once more, all 4 disks inside the box (2xSSD, 2xHDD) are 100% good in any respect and windows backed up are in perfect order. System itself is OCed but pass every reliability test I threw at it (another custom of mine).
Yes, different things they are. Clone is a direct copy, byte by byte of everything on both disks. Backup restore is same bits but stored on another place in this case in a .mring file that can be opened up by in this case Macrium Reflect resident service or or bootable Rescue disk/USB made by same program. Than it transfers everything to a disk to be exactly same as it was when backup was made, same bits, same order, everything. In either case (clone or backup) result should be exactly same.
In first instance backup has failed me (3 times) while cloning was flawless and may I say much faster because of two SSDs involved while .mring file was on a HDD and it went somewhat slower.