
I am an Acronis TI 2014 user, along with Drive Snapshot and formerly, the free ATI WD Edition. Looks like Acronis and SP would be my imager of choice for Windows system in a while. Granted, I only use the boot CD and image from outside of Windows. I know it was fast before, but did not realize it's so much faster than other imagers.ĭespite ppl reported bugs in the 2015 version, I have been using Acronis for more than 10 years and never had any problems. The speed of Acronis is just too impressive. The most significant difference is the time used: Acronis only needed 1.7 min, SP 3.2min, and IFL 5.1min. The resulting images are almost the same size: Acronis image: 11.6GB, IFL image 11.7GB and SP image 12.4 GB. The only options I changed were the compression level: for Acronis and SP, used high compression for IFL, used enhanced size - A. In all three programs, default parameters are used. The test was to image the whole SSD OS drive, and saved the images to the HDD drive.


Have a 2nd HDD in the same computer as a storage drive. File system is NTFS, Windows 8.1 Enterprise X64 on a 128GB SSD. Tested the backup speed for three imagers (all boot cd, and cold image): Acronis TI 2015, IFL v2.93 and Shadow Protect v5.2.4.
