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Pros
Pro Clone laptop drive
Can clone a laptop Hard Disk to an SSD for instance, see SSD replacement for ASUS X53S.
Assuming you have another drive with sufficient free space to hold the entirety of your current drive:
Download and install Macrium Reflect
Run that, and create a Rescue CD or USB (you'll use this later). "Other Tasks"
In the Macrium client, create an Image to some other drive. External USB HDD, maybe. Select all partitions. This results in a file of xxxx.mrimage
When done, power OFF.
Swap the 2 drives
Boot up from the Rescue USB you created earlier.
Recover, and tell it where the Image is that you created in step 3, and which drive to apply it to...the new SSD
Go, and wait until it finishes.
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Con No differential or incremental backups in free version
I have cloned my entire 120GB SSD to another 120GB SSD, thinking that I will do this at least weekly and have an off-site backup I can just pop in the laptop if anything happens. But because the cloning is not differential I'm averse to doing this so often, because it takes up to 45 minutes and I'm afraid so many re-writes will ruin the backup SSD.
Out of Date Pros + Cons
Pro Scheduling works well if you do pay
I've set this up for many customers, and it's a good reliable alternative to Acronis which would throw odd errors at times
Pro Free unless you need scheduling
Can't beat it for making a quick disk image without paying anything