I have a Laptop with only a Sata II spinner. The output is an AData USB 3.0 stick. I just did a full image of my system partition (about 80 GB used.) It took 30 minutes 32 seconds. Not too bad. I think the new update is a bit faster. Either that or the stick writes faster when it is nearly empty to start. :)
One of these days I'll move to SSD. :)
Something to be aware of. You need to create a new rescue disk for V6. The V6 disk can restore V5 images but the V5 disk can't restore v6 images.
Hi everyone!
The last twenty-one posts #612 to #632 (including the one that Gary posted about macrium free, and this one) I believe, should be moved to whs's tutorial thread, there is a lot of good stuff in these posts and I feel they should be in the tut.
I believe that because Gary isn't as familiar with the tutorial section or even the remaining forums concerning backups he became shy in replying that he may have erred especially after the deluge of posts that ensued.
Therefore I have asked the powers to be if it would be possible to move these twenty-one posts and any remaining ones concerning Macrium Free including this one be moved over to whs's tutorial.
I can understand that a 30 or 40 minute restore is a bit boring. But fortunately that is not being done very often. But a 40 minute image should be no problem at all. Just 'hide' Macrium and continue doing what you wanted to do.
And Keith - yes you can schedule images with free Macrium.
Exactly. That's a very nice feature of Macrium.
Macrium creates a snapshot of your system when you start creating an image, and then makes the image based on this snapshot. You can continue working without issues, just keep in your mind that if you for instance create and save a new Word document after the snapshot has been created it will not be included in the image.
I'm still on the fence on whether to just stay with my Pro V5, upgrade to free V6, or upgrade to V6 Pro. Some of the features I still don't understand.
One is the lack of dynamic disk support in free V6. Exactly what is that? I don't believe I have any dynamic disks on my desktop (I don't really understand what dynamic is all about), especially the C: drive, which is the only one I image. I do occasionally clone my data drives (very occasionally). This is a shot of my disk management since someone is bound to ask for it:
SSD TRIM support is another one I don't get. What does TRIM have to do with Macrium Reflect (my C: drive is an SSD, btw)?
I'm also not sure what Backup File Management is. Is that what I am using now to have Macrium Reflect automatically delete images older than eight weeks?
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