macrium reflect clone disk to smaller ssd

I've had a support case open with Macrium about his for months now, with no progress. It's definitely a Macrium software issue as I have verified elesewhere that all my adapters work at their full speeds.Īlso I have trialled other cloning software on the same hardware and got the much faster speeds I would expect.

I suspect there is a inherant inefficiency in the way Macrium is doing clones.īackups are fast, but restores and clones are slow. Yet I always get these really slow rates. I'd expect to get around 80-100MB/s.Īll my adapters and the SSD are high performance so should not be bottlenecks. Surely the clone should run as fast as the slowest device in the system, which should be the hard drive. Often around 20MB/s which means I'm waiting for hours on customer's premises for clones that should take only a quarter of that time. Whichever way I do it I am seeing VERY slow transfer rates. Sometimes I install the new SSD into the customer's computer and connect the old hard drive via USB3/SATA3 adapter and boot from the Macrium boot USB drive to run the clone. Sometimes I connect both the source and destination drives to my own laptop via USB3/SATA3 adapters and do the clone using the Macrium Reflect v8 installed on my laptop. I do the clone for my customers in various ways:.

I run an IT support business so I regularly do disk cloning, these days usually from HDD to SSD.

Macrium reflect clone disk to smaller ssd