![]() We’ve been using it for seemingly forever, and it’s never let us down yet. If all you want to do is image your system or data, then Macrium Reflect Free 6 is a great way to do it. Folks here often recommend the free version of Macrium Reflect as an alternative to Windows own backup options. And much better than the six invoked by Acronis True Image. Macrium Reflect Free Version Being Retired. On the bright side, the free version of Reflect spawns only a single background process, down from the three that the pay versions create. Backup generally takes place during off hours or in the background, so we don’t lend performance a lot of weight in our evaluations. That’s about two minutes slower than any of the competition, though CPU usage was minimal. That might be nice, as Reflect Free 6 took just over nine minutes to perform our 115GB system backup. Macrium claims increased performance for the latest version 7, of which a free version is promised soon. There are several ways to interpret that, but my take is that effective immediately, the current free. After that date we will no longer provide any changes to the v8 Free code base. Security patches will still be provided until 1st January 2024. It provides full system backup, file and folder backup, disk. Macrium Reflect Free v8.0 is the last version to receive feature, compatibility or bug fix updates. ![]() ![]() PE allows driver injection (adding them at restore time), so you’re likely okay there anyway. Macrium Reflect Free is a powerful disk imaging and backup solution for home and business users. It also lets you choose the drivers you want to install. Reflect Free supports both MBR and GPT disks (it was late to the GPT game), and it has a great boot media creator, which lets you change flavors of Windows PE to best suit the operating system being backed up. Several flavors of the Windows PE boot environment are supported by Reflect Free 6 ![]()
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