Macrium Reflect

I've never liked subscription software because it rarely benefits the end user as it is basically a "pay up or else" ransomware scheme / a digital mob protection racket, which if the version of the installed software continued to work after subscription expired without any customer support / software updates then people wouldn't be annoyed but to cripple the actual installed software is going to far and people should vote with their wallets.

 

Who said stealing? I didn't. Refusing to buy is not stealing. I'll just use something else.

 

Too cheap? No. But I prefer software that actually works. I'm funny that way.

 

Macrium Reflect used to be the busiest forum. Now it's Hasleo Backup Suite. I suspect the users of free Macrium have moved to free Hasleo. Maybe Macrium doesn't mind losing users who weren't paying anyway.

 

If this error is confirmed, then Reflect X has a serious problem.
https://forum.macrium.com/83663/Reflect-X-Home-Rescue-Media-Error

 

Not really I'm a long time paid user who has switched to Hasleo because I strongly disagree with the subscription model. And I don't expect Hasleo to be free forever and I'll gladly pay for a license. But I refuse to pay rental for all software I use. One of the reasons I stepped away from Adobe as well.

 

I believe this is the error I had with version X, and one of the reasons I'm angry at Macrium.

 

1) This is the offer people have been sometimes referring to as the $ 25 per year for life:

“Trade in (your existing license will be deactivated after your new license is activated) your one-time license … and receive 50% off the normal annual plan price for life (must turn on auto-renew and not allow the license to expire/lapse).”

a) “50% off the normal annual plan price for life” is not the same as $ 25 per year for life.

b) Is “must turn on auto-renew” something you really want to do?​

2) “Reflect X … up to twice as fast as Reflect 8”

“Up to twice” means somewhere between slower and twice. They forget to mention that you will get the twice only if both your source and target drives are NVMe SSDs. Most people will be using at least one hard disk drive and therefore see NO speed increase, from the testing I'm reading about here at wilders.

3) There is no reason not to continue using the ultra-reliable and feature-complete v8.1. If the new pricing model turns out to be the catastrophe that it appears to be from customer feedback; Paramount/Macrium will be forced to bring back the perpetual licensing sooner rather than later to slow the financial bleeding and mitigate the long-term damage.

 

Regarding Reflect X.

"Let The Market Decide"

It should be interesting viewing.

 

n8, Un anger ... as @stapp has mentioned above, it's fixed in the latest release (and don't forget to reBUILD your Rescue Media).

 

Yep, I see it. I'll test this new build and report back.

 

On second thought, I don't care either way. I'm not going to use Reflect X anyway, so it doesn't matter to me if that error has been fixed for me or not. I'm not giving Macrium any more energy.

 

Well, it's real for me. There were times that I was hitting 32 gig a second copying, that's one internal SSD to another internal SSD. The old Macirum was fast but this is insane.
Acadia

 

Acadia, was that 32 Gbps or 32 GBps? Were you using NVMe SSDs?

 

To my knowledge, no SSD today achieves 32 GB/s. Even with PCIe 5.0, an x4 connection offers a theoretical max of 16 GB/s.

32 Gbps would be 4 GB/s. That’s within current NVMe SSD specs.

 

I've noticed in the past that the speed it shows are at times way in excess of what the hardware is capable of. I always assumed that they were displaying a number that is the size files would have been without compression or maybe if this is an incremental image maybe they are taking the total used space on the drive and including the size of files that aren't actually getting copied. For example say your drive had 100 GB and your incremental is 10. Maybe they take that 100 GB and it shows as 10 times the actual speed? Just a thought, I have never been sure but I know it is not the actual transfer rate.

 

Just did a fresh, complete backup. 53.18 GB in 35 sec. This time I could "only" hit 22 GB a sec.

 

Acadia, Macrium reports speed in Gbps, not GBps.

8 Gbps is 1 GBps.

 

Gotcha, thanks.
Acadia

 

Another thing that I have noticed with the new Macrium, despite being faster, my processor does not run nearly as hot.
Acadia

 

53.18/35 is 1.52 GBps. A good speed. Was this NVMe to NVMe SSDs?

 

C Drive = Samsung 980 Pro 500GB Gen4 M.2 SSD
D Drive = Sabrent 2TB Rocket 4 Plus Gen4 PCIe M.2 SSD
Processor = Intel Core i7 13700K 3.4GHz 16Core 30MB 125W

 

Thanks. Nice hardware.

 

That’s the default, but there’s an option to switch to GB/s