It's not something to which I attach any high priority as I usually let my backups run unattended. You can adjust the compression, of course, but there must be some other factor involved in your case.Īs for transfer rate performance, you may be right about Reflect being less speedy than ATI in some circumstances. I see less than 2GB image size difference for a total 70GB+ source. I can confirm that Reflect's backup images are generally a bit bigger than Acronis TI with default compression settings, although a 5GB difference for a backup involving only a 16GB total source is far beyond anything I've ever seen. Can anyone offer any explanation or is it something I am doing wrong? I also found that boot time from the Acorns USB is faster compared to Macrium. Where did the Macrium image find the extra GBs from and why so slow? I also noticed that the Macrium image size was about 5GB bigger than the Acorns image. The backup image took 35 minutes create which is very slow compared to Acronis which took 7 minutes! Same hardware ,same backup device etc. My hard drive (OS and some applications, data) amounted to about 16GB total. I then booted from it to create an image to an external USB drive. I installed it and created a WPE USB boot. I thought I would explore other avenues so came across Macrium and liked what I read and bought the Macrium V5 Pro. It has been fine and reliable but I read some negative reviews of their latest 2015 version. I have been a user of Acorns True Image 2013.