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I'm reviewing Acronis True Image 2021 and it is hands down the best cloning and backup software I've ever used in my life - which is along time LOL. I bought it to clone my windows system SSD drive and of course for backups. It is actually a bit of an overkill since it also offers a ton of other features including antimalware and robust cyber protection.
The product I bought from Amazon was a box that included a license key and instruction manual. The download was fast and easy as well as the install. I have Win 10 on an Asus ROG Maximus Hero XI motherboard for reference. Everything about this software was designed with the user in mind and novice one's at that. After install it brought up a tutorial and multiple reference links on how to use the product for EACH product service. I found that refreshing and somewhat unusual these days. I did take a harder look at the cloning link since I wanted to make sure I got this right and it did offer a couple helpful tips I needed when initializing and formatting my new SSD later.
But really, the software is so well designed you probably will be like me and take a quick peak at the tutorial and more on to using the product. Because everything is menu driven. Click on "backup" and it literally walks you thru choosing the backup scheme that fits your needs and then saves that profile. You can have multiple profiles if you choose. For example, multiple choices with explanations for incrementals, differentials and also a choice of how many of each you desire before it will do a new full backup. You can schedule backups automatically or do manuals like I will do - it is totally up to you and very flexible. And the backup is incredibly fast. I did a full of my 2.1GB data files in less than two minutes. This was from an internal SSD to a USB SATA drive in a WavLink docking station/enclosure. And I've completed one incremental and it was easy and fast.
But most importantly for me was the cloning feature. Cloning can be very tricky and sometimes with glitches especially when you are cloning to an external drive in an enclosure as I was. But after getting my SSD USB Asus enclosure up and running and the Samsung PCIe NVME SSD installed, initialized and formatted, the cloning process thru Acronis was click on tools, click on cloning and the rest was menu choices based on what I would be using the clone for - in my case on a new drive inside current desktop. There are other choices and how Acronis handles and creates the clone is based on those choices and is not of concern to the user. I cloned my Windows system disk (115GB from my Samsung 512GB 970 EVO Pro SSD PCIe 3.0 NVME M2 SSD) onto a Samsung 980 Pro SSD house in my external USB Asus enclosure in less than 8 minutes. I was blown away especially since this is a clone and a bit by bit read/write. Upon completion Acronis indicates it was successful and indicates you can now install the drive and use as a new system disk.
Enough said I guess. This is a very well designed, user friendly and technically sound piece of software that I highly recommend.
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