Macrium Reflect Version 6 vs O & O DiskImage 10

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Which of these 2 clone/image software should I buy? Macrium Reflect Version 6 vs O & O DiskImage 10. What is the advantage of the paid Macrium Reflect Version 6 vs the free version? Only support/Rapid Delta Cloning?
What is the best way Direct disk cloning vs Rapid Delta Cloning(in paid version)?
Thanks.

 

O&O sounds like it has to do with Windows 10, so screw it!

Jokes aside, I have not yet cloned anything, and if I do I will be using Macrium Reflect, but I am not qualified to make a suggestion here, for any of your questions.

 

I have never used them two but Acronis True Image always worked for me.

 

I have used Macrium and Acronis True Image, I have used ATI the most and it is easy to use, But i could not get it to work with my Win8.1 x86 Tablet, I would not detect the SSD and i was using the newest version, I tried a few other trial software and only Macrium worked for me.

I dont know if Macrium supports partition shrinking, say you have an 1tb hdd and you want to clone it to an 512gb ssd, Acronis will just reduce the partition size as long as there if free space, but i could not get Macrium to do that, I did not use it for long, maybe i missed an option.

Download a few trial software and see which you like the best.

But i recommend Acronis

TIP: when you install the trial software and then you uninstall it, a lot of the time it will send your browser to the software website and offer you a discount.

John.

 

Check this out. Great price www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832200087&cm_re=Acronis-_-32-200-087-_-Product

 

From what I've read so have Macrium support for resize partitions when restoring to a smaller drive in the latest version. Correct me if I'm wrong. http://forum.macrium.com/Topic3908.aspx?Keywords=Blu- Support would valued feature

 

Last time I used Macrium Reflect it had bogus GUI look like somebody brought Win8 style, doubled by copying and exploded. It' subject of my taste.
Acronis 2016 was the same messy metro style BTW. But heard it brough back nice feature Try and Decide.
Free Macrium doesn't do incremential backups I guess.

 

Thanks it good to know that it does.

John.

 

I have recommended Macrium to a friend who cloned her 1TB HDD to a new 512GB SSD, so partition shrinking works just fine as long as there's enough free space. I can confirm that much about Macrium Reflect.

 

I use macrum reflect free, yes it will resize, theres a video on it Macrum reflect free does full and differential , Im using 6.1.936(UEFI), it has scheduler for full and differential, it uses WIN 10 PE to create rescue media which can be put on usb thrumb drive or dvd disk, the rescue media can restore a backup created,fix booting issues, and enable a system to boot to new hardware using ReDeploy, I have used it, the free version works fine.

If your going to reimage your drive, select the latest good differential image it will find the full image and restore all partitions to differential image date. I back up with differential twice a week and full once a month.

Win 10,8,7 backup and restore work fine too, they only use full imaging though.

Cheers
3Fees

 

What about advertising serving in the free version? Is there anything of this in the software?

 

No, none, not at all, not even one popup. In fact I use it on both notebooks I have.

Cheers
3Fees

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Thanks.

 

I think IIRC the important feature that Free version misses is the "Independent of HW", Like say a backup of 200GB partition doesn't work with a 300GB partition on another drive...
Correct me if i'm wrong...

 

I also noticed that Acronis True Image gives way smaller size for full backup of partition than Macrium Reflect. It was 6.5GB vs 8 or 9GB for clean OS install. That was a deal breaker for me.

 

You can set compression level with Macrium reflect which helps quite a bit.

 

I compared max compression vs max compression I told that I got 6.5/9 out of 30GB