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True Images blows my raid set

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I just wanted to relay my experiences with Acronis True Image. I've been using it for years. Worked great when my PCs were simple but in the last 5 or 6 years its been a total piece of garbage (sorry to say)

Here's an example. I have a high end laptop and I've hardly used it because I could never get backup to work on it. Its been a total waste. I really couldnt use it if I cant back it up.

I have these drives on it
- SSD M.2 NVMe drive - OS drive C
- SSD M.2 PCIe drive - application drive D
- 2 5400rpm HDD raided together as raid 0
- external USB hard disk I use for backup file storage

When I run the standalone CD Acronis True Image 2015 or 2017 all it sees is the HDD raid set and the storage disk. It doesnt see the my OS disk or my application disk. I mean thats 99% of my system.

I just tried Acronis True Image 2021 and its see my C and D drives just fine. But it shows my raid set as being unsupported. And this is the shocking and disturbing part. It blows up my raid set! I dont know what it does to the raid set but it must write something to one of the drives because the raid set gets corrupted. I didnt even try to access it with the app. You know a backup utility is not supposed to do any harm (like the doctor moto) so here it is blowing up my disk configuration. To repair this I have to delete the raid set and rebuild it. Of course that loses all the data!

Like I said I've been using Acronis True Image for years but no longer. I've moved to EaseUS Todo backup now. I have none of these problems anymore. It sees all my drives fine.

BTW, I cant believe Acronis is changing its name and bundling antivirus together. Whoever in marketing thought of this should be fired. Its ridiculous. Another reason never to buy this product again!

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Mark, if you are using any form of RAID with Acronis then you need to create Windows PE type of rescue media and not try to use the Linux based media that was provided with all earlier versions such as 2015 - 2017.

The Linux media does not work with RAID and has limited support for some NVMe type SSD's, hence Acronis started to switch the focus for rescue media to using WinPE created from the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) which is the default now when choosing the 'Simple' method of creating rescue media.

I would suspect that Easeus ToDo is also using WinPE type bootable media hence why it sees your RAID drives correctly.

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