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You hardware, CPU and RAM along with the HDD and its cache will have a big part in how long the restore or image creations takes. Mine take around 13 minutes on both operations. My OS image is 18GB and Data 34GB.
You hardware, CPU and RAM along with the HDD and its cache will have a big part in how long the restore or image creations takes. Mine take around 13 minutes on both operations. My OS image is 18GB and Data 34GB.
I have images backed up on 3 separate HDD's. The first is an internal HDD I use to save data on and which I used to restore the image from, the second is using e-SATA docking station and the third is using a USB 3.0 docking station. I can save a full image on all three HDD's between 3 minutes 25 seconds and 3 minutes 45 seconds. The slowest one being when I use the USB 3.0 device. I haven't tried restoring from either external HDD dock, but only from the internal HDD, which is a SATA III connection. I may have to try it again and see what happens using one of the other drive and hopefully I will get better performance. With Windows System imaging I can do a complete 22 Gb restore to my SSD in about 10 minutes, or less, so I thought it was strange that Macrium took so long.What sort of performance do you get when using an external USB HDD?
Thanks to everyone for their replies!
Were you imaging to an internal drive or external? Was the destination drive SSD or HDD?
That sounds about right to me.
One thing I just thought of that may have made a difference. The image I restored was taken from my Samsung SSD and restored to a Kingston SSD. The total available space on the Samsung is about 2 Gbs larger than on the Kingston, so it would have needed to be resized to fit.
Thanks for all replies!
Just finished doing another image restore and this time it only took 3 minutes to complete. But this was restoring an image that was created from the same SSD, so it didn't have to do any resizing.
It still sounds odd to me unless Macrium does a full clean prior to a resize. In principle going from a smaller to a larger SSD would give some unallocated space which should be easily and quickly recovered.
Thank you "whs" for this excellent tutorial :)
... and SIW2 for the BartPe plugin, tip :)
Found this tutorial at bottom of Macrium Free vs Macrium Pay. I have always assumed (until 2 months ago) the only cure for a sick PC was a clean install and days of reinstalling apps and custom settings.