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Yes, I do, but only for one very particular purpose.
I never 'sanitize' my HDDs with it, and in any case writing zeros to every unused sector of an SSD would be bad for its health/endurance.
But I do use Alex Page's USB Image Tool to back up some of my USB sticks. As this includes every sector of the USB in the image I like to I zero all the free space before making the image file. This makes it as compressible as possible for storing in an NTFS compressed folder, or in a .zip file. That's the one an only time I use this feature, but it works and does 'what it says on the tin'.
Now you can do that with Macrium V8. The stick backup.But I do use Alex Page's USB Image Tool
That is true, and with Reflect's 'intelligent sector copy' the unused sectors don't get included in the image so there's no need to zero them. But until now it has been a necessary space saving exercise.
Alex Page's USB Image Tool still has some advantages. It is a tiny portable app that needs no install, and its .img files can be opened in 7-Zip File Manager. I may continue to use it along side Reflect.