Acronis True Image Home 2012 (DVD) - $4.99 after MIR Shipped @newegg

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Acronis True Image Home 2012 (DVD) -$24.99 = $4.99 after $20 MIR and with free shipping

$20 MIR form, exp. 3.21.12

As with any software, the advantages/disadvantages are always up for discussion. And, yes if you own a Western Digital Drive you can get Acronis for free (2009 version). But, for those that don't and want to try it, this is still decent software. : )

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Newegg.com - Acronis True Image Home 2012 (DVD)

So much can go wrong with your computer, such as accidental file deletions, system viruses and total hard-disk failures. In a split second, you could lose all your photos, videos, emails, programs, critical files and shortcuts. But thanks to Acronis True Image Home 2012, every bit of data can be recovered and your entire system can be restored to its original shape, quickly and easily.

Acronis gives you flexible, user-friendly ways to back up your data on a regular basis. So if disaster strikes, you get it back quickly. It not only recovers all your data but, thanks to full-image backups, it can put everything back exactly where it was. That means all the same files in the same folders. The same applications and Operating System. The same icons and shortcuts. All your precious photos and videos. All your important work. Everything back to normal like it never happened! Acronis also offers you another handy features and capabilities to significantly enhance your experience, such as file synchronization across multiple computers, an optional online-backup service for an extra level of safety, and complete flexibility enabling you to restore to different hardware.

 

I should get this for my sister since I spent the previous weekend fixing her computer from scratch. It would be nice to restore it and be done.

 

Yah, nice price AR. I forgot to check to see if this qualifies for Shoprunner 2 day shipping : )

 

It's also supposed to support hard drive to SSD migration with appropriate alignment.

Solid State Drive Support in Acronis Products | Knowledge Base

The following Acronis products have full Solid State Drive (SSD) support:

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11
Acronis True Image Home 2011
Acronis True Image Home 2012
Acronis Disk Director 11 Home

All other Acronis products support Solid State Drives (SSD) with certain limitations:

You can perform all the same operations with SSDs as with regular hard disk drives;

There are no special partition alignment mechanisms required to keep the partitions offset which is optimal for SSD drives. In other words when you restore an image to an SSD drive, it will get the default 63 sectors offset instead of 64kb (or a multiple of 64kb) offset recommended for SSD drives even if this offset was in place when the image had been created. This may result in a drop of performance on certain models of SSD drives after the restore;

Support for SSD drives is also planned for the next version of the Acronis Backup & Recovery product line.

More information

A multiple of 64kb (most commonly, 1024kb or 2048 sectors) is the recommended offset for SSD disks.

Full support details:

If you restore or clone a disk image to an SSD disk, the offset will be automatically set to the default 1024kb (2048 sectors).

If you restore a partition backup to a target empty partitioned disk (SSD), the target SSD disk will keep its original offset.

 

Got me one, killer deal, thanks

George