Imaging with free Macrium

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Lady Fitzgerald said:

BTW my Crucial SSD has 10,500 hours of use and is down to 94% health. SSDLife says it has another 57 (yes 57) years of life left if you believe that

Makes me wonder how much life SSDLife has left.

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mjf said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

BTW my Crucial SSD has 10,500 hours of use and is down to 94% health. SSDLife says it has another 57 (yes 57) years of life left if you believe that

Makes me wonder how much life SSDLife has left.

Curious. I don't own a Crucial (no worries; methinks you deleted one end quote too many).

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MilesAhead said:

mjf said:

Makes me wonder how much life SSDLife has left.

Curious. I don't own a Crucial (no worries; methinks you deleted one end quote too many).

Yeah on here highlighting and quoting doesn't do the trick. You wouldn't believe how many edits it takes sometimes. I seem to be getting wandering caret syndrome. :)

Has anyone here ever worn out an SSD?

kado897 said:

How fast it is depends on how much the system has changed. An old image will probably have so many changes that you wouldn't notice the difference.

It does work. To test it I made a backup then deleted a tiny text file. I booted and selected only C: partition to copy back(I am on W8 with the GPT jazz.) It showed elapsed time of about 2 1/2 minutes. Much better than the 20+ minutes it used to take to restore from a complete backup in v. 4.2. :)

MilesAhead said:

kado897 said:

How fast it is depends on how much the system has changed. An old image will probably have so many changes that you wouldn't notice the difference.

It does work. To test it I made a backup then deleted a tiny text file. I booted and selected only C: partition to copy back(I am on W8 with the GPT jazz.) It showed elapsed time of about 2 1/2 minutes. Much better than the 20+ minutes it used to take to restore from a complete backup in v. 4.2. :)

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MilesAhead said:

mjf said:

Makes me wonder how much life SSDLife has left.

Curious. I don't own a Crucial (no worries; methinks you deleted one end quote too many).

I wish I was around in 2072.


As to Macrium V6 I'll sit on V5 for a little but eventually go to V6. I'm using the free version so making the V6 pe restore may be different from those who have the paid version.

At the rate my body and the rest of the world is falling apart, I don't want to be around in 2072.

I'm still on the fence over whether to stay with V5 pro, upgrade to V6 Free, or shell out the shekels for V6 Pro.

Hi Butlerkid and welcome to Seven Forums.

When you download MR free it downloads the most suitable PE components for your installation. In your case that will probably be 3.1 (200MB download). When you create the rescue disk you have the opportunity to change the PE version. The most recent is PE5. If you chose that you will need to download a further 500+MB. I think you only need PE5 for UEFI and secure boot but it never hurts to have the latest code.