Is 2011 worth the upgrade price
I'm looking for some feeback from customers who have upgraded from ATI 2010 to 2011. I'm really happy with the way ATI 2010 work and it does everything I want as I only do full image backups about once a month. So...... I'm looking for a compelling reason to upgrade or I'm just going to stick with 2010 this time around. Any feedback would be appreciated.
The interface on 2010 is hard to beat. It is laid out logically and has a clean home screen. The tasks are on a separate screen with the calendar built in.
2011 has a big portion of the home screen taken up with your backups listed in large rectangular boxes for each backup job. I just dont get it. The layout of 2010 is far superior so went back to 2010.
On another issue I am going to install SSD drives. Noted in post that 2010 does not work with SSD drives is that correct?
I have a Crucial 256GB SSD and Acronis True Image 2010 backs up my SSD with no problems. In case you're wondering, I have had to restore because there was a firmware update that in the process of updating wipes the drive. I did the firmware upgrade and restored from my image with no problem. I'm running Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium.
Back on 9/1/2010 I posted a message asking forum members that had already upgraded to ATI 2011 if it was worth the upgrade as I was happy with the way ATI 2010 was working on my system. WYRM said to wait and NS disliked the layout. Well, It's been 3 month and I would appreciate some additional input. Part of my issue is the fact that I only tend to do full, complete backups and my external hard drive is typically offline except when I'm doing a backup so all of the hype associated with the 2011 changes are meaninless unless there's something that makes my ability to backup my hard drive the way I want to back it up better, faster or with more reliability. Any and all input will be appreciated.
If you do not have SSDs or do not use RAID (that means if you do not need alignment) then stick to 2010. I have endless problems with 2011. The latest build I cannot use at all since it scans all my HDs for backup files whenever I start it. I have many TB of data and the CPU and the HDs are endless busy. And the scan is programmed in a such poor way that is hard to believe... But honestly I do not want this scan - I want to be able to tell the software where my backups are and finished. No need that it looks on a total of 8 TB disk space every time I start it.
In addition to this other things don't work and the whole GUI is just a bad joke. Alone in the backup list every entry covers about two centimeters of the GUI on my monitor. With the latest version you can collapse them. But you have to do this for every single entry :-))))))))))) Only beginners can design such a bad interface. And so it goes on with this GUI. So better wait for 2012 or 2013. But as it turned out for me 2011 is a downgrade of (not to) 2010. So not sure what will be with 2012 or 2013 ;-)
This is interesting. I would have assumed that even though the new interface is designed to perform continious, on the fly backups of the system, I was "assuming" that one could still configure the system to only do the type of backup (i.e. full system) and still schedule the backup (i.e. on demand only) whenever you want to kick off the backup. Can I get some additional input on this?
As a follow-up to my last post.....
I don't have a SSD and I'm not using RAID on my system. I just have a sinlge 1 TB drive as the HD in my PC and my backup drive is a 500 GB drive connected to my system via a USB cable. As previously noted only do periodic, full and complete backups of my HD in my PC to the external USB drive as I don't experience that much change on my system and what files are frequently changed are being backed up by Mozy Home using their free backup space that they offer to anyone and everyone. The only real need I have is to cover a complete disaster where something happens and I need to d a full restore of data and the OS to my existing drive or a replacement drive. I guess I have gone back and restored a file or two from an image taken back when my OS was XP but that was only done twice. In other words, I only need a certain subset of the backup functinality of the product but I also don't want to be left behind if there's something in ATI 2011 that is not in 2010 that is something that could benefit my ability to backup my system in the manner that I currently use the product.
I did not write that it does on the fly backups. I wrote that it scans for backup files on all my HDs whenever it starts - I guess to put them into the Backup List. You still can select and have to select what you want to backup and start it when you want.
But the best thing would be to download the trial and test it. It is just a download and a restore of the old state if you are not happy with it.