Macrium Reflect Workstation Reviews

Pros

Really good imaging and backup products
easy to use

Cons

stop the free version, need to buy license

Pros

Seems very reliable. Have been using it for a couple of years now.

Cons

New license policy. This makes you not own you software any longer.

Pros

It was easy to setup and set up an image backup

Cons

I couldn’t get restore to work. When I requested assistance they responded that there was no support for the free trial and directed me to their knowledge base. I couldn’t find a resolution to my problem there.

Pros

That we can buy a perpetual license, was the prime reason. The units we work with are after shipment off-line, so a annual subscription is not possible. In the past we used Acronis, as they went to a subscription version, we selected your product. (so please keep this feature, otherwise we need to look for something different )

Cons

None, it works fine. I never had an issue with your product.

Pros

It includes a bare metal restore image feature.

Cons

The UI design, but I understand the minimal approach for better performance.

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Reasons for Switching to Macrium Reflect Workstation

Pros

I have rarely had a problem retrieving stuff from backups. I do a full backup of my Windows C drive once a week onto an external drive, and differential backups daily. I keep three full backups. The main backups are 300Gb and more. Now and again, when something goes wrong and I need to retrieve a file from the backup, it's a simple process that takes very little time.

Cons

I don't have anything bad to say about Macrium Reflect. It just works! That's really all there is to say about it.

Pros

Works very well indeed, and previous support has been prompt and good. I've restored backups, both when disks have been replaced, and to recover fat-fingered accidents, and usually it is pain-free (once I couldn't restore a backup on a network drive to a virgin PC, but that got resolve).
I used to recommend Reflect to friends and clients (especially clients!) as an essential tool that should be on the PC from the start.

Cons

It can fail to complete a backup if a disk has read errors. That's kind of understandable because you don't want to have what you think is a backup but is just random noise on some disk sectors, but it is useful to be able to complete the backup anyway and know some of it might be flaky - better to have some data than none at all, and typically in this case you might be trying to save a drive that is failing. However, I think this has been resolved in more recent versions (haven't had to try it since - drives either work or not nowadays and rarely warn of impending disaster).

Pros

Ability to backup complete system image (which allows me to restore those pesky registry settings with no hassle)

Cons

I have to compute how many full, differential and incremental backups I can maintain on my external drive based on their average size. Before I started doing that, I would get errors upon failing to backup and not understand from the error message that it wasn't just deleting the oldest image to make room.

Pros

absurdly expensive, cheaper to simply replace the entire workstation than purchase yearly subscriptions

Cons

the price is absurd, imagine paying hundreds of dollars a year to back up EACH workstation, all of which are becoming less valuable each year
within three years, ive paid more for backups than the machine itself

Pros

The ease of installation, setup, operation (manual and scheduled backups), and backup/restoration. Since operating backup software is not something most people do every day, the straightforwardness of the Reflect software makes life easier!

Cons

The two least-favorite aspects of the software include the backup time (though Reflect X improves the speed of the backup process) and authorizing licenses on machines without network connectivity.

Pros

I can make an image/clone of the computer.

Cons

Nothing, wish the price was lower and could purchase multiple license keys at a discount.

Pros

Fast Backups, Easy Restore Process, Ability to change the size of restoration Drives

Cons

Loading drivers for different hardware. Lack of cloud backups.

Pros

Ease of use. Very straight forward interface.

Cons

I can't think of much. It does exactly what I need for cloning hard drives and I have no complaints.

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Reasons for Switching to Macrium Reflect Workstation

Pros

The most important thing is that you can make backups on computers that are not connected to the external Internet (offline). This is very helpful in organizations.

Cons

That it is not possible to reset licenses in Site Manager and transfer them to another computer

Pros

Works fine every night and Friday day. No glitches

Cons

Was supposed to be twice as fast. It isn't. Still takes 5 hours to back up my computer in full mode.

Pros

Besides the software working great, the support (both company and community) are terrific and the year of updates is very reasonably priced. The "fix boot issues" and "redeploy" (to new hardware) are amazing.

Cons

Maybe a little bit more of a learning curve, but mostly due to extra features (vs. the competition).

Pros

Fast imaging with ease of use. It provides options for creating bootable rescue media (USB or DVD) that can be used to restore your system in case it becomes unbootable.

Cons

At the end of 2023, support for the free version of Macrium Reflect will end. It's a shame because it was one of the best solutions for home users!

Pros

Security, knowing I can retrieve information if needed.

Cons

There seems to be a lot of updates. I understand they are necessary.

Pros

that it always works when other fail to complete the task

Cons

so far i have not find anything that i dislike

Pros

The application is free for personal use! Offers imaging and backups for disks with ease. There is also the ability to clone your disk

Cons

One issue i've encountered is when cloning the drive letter does not reflect that of the host system. Not sure if its unique to this application, or a flaw in the cloning process

Pros

Macrium Reflect has proven to be an extremely cost effective means for creating and managing computer system images. The ability to quickly download a stored image to a system or to a blank hard drive or solid state drive has reduced the turn around time for reimaging computers to no more than the amount of time it takes to swap out the hard drive. We do keep spare, fully imaged drives on the shelf for each of the models of computer that we have in the enterprise. Once an image has been created and stored on our image server, we can image a 500GB SSD in less than 3 minutes. Traditional hard disk drives can be imaged in about 12 minutes.

The application is extremely easy to use and the interface is intuitive enough for novice users.

Cons

I would like for the business and workstation versions to be able to image multiple drives simultaneously. This feature appears to be available only with the Deployment Kit, which has a price of $3250 per license.

Pros

Its FREE. Great imaging software. Can copy disk to disk or create an image to be restored or mounted later.

Cons

Have yet to run into any issues with macrium and it is free so cannot complain

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Reasons for Choosing Macrium Reflect Workstation

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Reasons for Switching to Macrium Reflect Workstation

Pros

I've been using MR for years now and I've never had any issues with it. For me personally the free version of the software suits my needs. I only use it for cloning of HDD and SSD's.

Cons

The user interface is a little lacking in my opinion compared with say EaseUs Partition Master which is much easier to navigate. It's just something you have to become familiar with through use.

Pros

Apparently, IT professionals and computer geeks get a LOT of use out of this app. But as a home PC user, I have found that if you aren't a Windows EXPERT, it's easier to just reinstall Windows and reinstall your software, and just back up your files on an external drive of some kind. I have never actually been able to successfully restore a bootable backup of my PC. The days and days of researching the technical details I don't know anything about just to ask a support question simply aren't worth it.

Cons

It is NOT "user" friendly. The tech support is really for IT pros. If you're not an EXPERT (and I know quite a bit) on Windows, BIOS, etc, then this is probably not the app for you.

Pros

The most useful feature of this software is without question its cloning / backup ability. I've used it over 4 times to clone HDD's to SSD's- to keep from having to transfer everything manually and reinstall Windows. I've also used it to keep backups, which it has a genius way of doing. You choose the folders you want to back up, and the program will compress all of them into a single file which can be moved as you want. When you want to extract your files from the backup, you open the file and Macrium will mount it as removable storage, allowing you to move individual items as if it were a flash drive.

Cons

Sometimes, the software will not correctly clone the boot partitions correctly, leading to a failure of Windows to boot after cloning a hard drive to an SSD. It is easy to fix, but still annoying.