Macrium Reflect cons: pricing higher than of competition, difficult for beginners. Macrium Reflect pros: high speed of work, many useful functions, multiple versions of the program for various OS and devices. The program has lots of settings, so a new user may be a little confused at first, though it does not take much time to learn the ins and outs.

full file/folder level backup and recovery.

backup entire PC or workstation to a single compressed image file.backup files and folders to a single compressed archive file.create disk images in Windows Explorer for easy recovery.Macrium Image Guardian (protection against ransomware).protect files and OS via disk imaging technology.Macrium Reflect is a complete backup solution and it offers rich functionality: Also, a user can easily mount an image as a virtual drive and just copy files from the image as from a regular folder. It enables making backups on the fly (without restarting the computer) using Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service. There are different plans: Free, Personal, Standalone, Site Backup and Technician. It provides many opportunities for backups of files/partitions and disk images.

Would be grateful for any suggestions/advice.Macrium Reflect is a powerful full-featured software for backups. >Forensic Sector Copy (copies every sector from the source to the target disk partition) >Enable SSD Trim (enables the clone target to optimize the disk and enhanced SSD performanceĪnd longevity) -wondering if this would be necessary with a new SSD?

>Rapid Delta Clone (copies only file system differences between the clone source and the target) >Verify File System (ensures that there are no file system errors transferred to the clone) >Intelligent sector copy (copies only file system sectors/clusters that are in use.) V 7.2 offers 5 cloning options - not sure which to select in the provided check boxes: Will I have to modify the size of this HDD partition: will cloning only copy the 215GB being used - or will it try to copy the entire 906GB causing issues? My current HDD has three partitions a Dell Utility 32 MB Ī Recovery NTFS Active 24.6 GB and the NTFS Primary 906GB - 215 used. After reading the v 7.2 manual cloning instructions some questions have me needing assistance.ġ.

I have purchased a Samsung 500GB SSD to clone the HDD partitions.

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