Anyone use or recommend WD Smartware for their backups?

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skylightron
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2011/09/24 17:25:04 (permalink)

Anyone use or recommend WD Smartware for their backups?

Looks like a few of the Western Digital hard drives come bundled with WD Smartware. Is this adequate for an entire system, DAW, intruments, and samples or would I be better off picking up Acronis True Image or Paragon Home? Also, anyone use WD Smartware and decided to upgrade to a more feature rich backup program? And if so, what features did you find missing in Smartware?
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    Anubis
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    Re:Anyone use or recommend WD Smartware for their backups? 2011/09/25 01:14:42 (permalink)
    No. I used Macrium Reflect. The free version. Acronis is good too.

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    Re:Anyone use or recommend WD Smartware for their backups? 2011/09/25 06:23:12 (permalink)
    The backup WD supplies, that will only work with their drives, is a special version of Acronis True Image.   I have, and use, the full paid version of Acronis.  Most of the techies that I know on the Dell forum also use Acronis, even with the free Macrium and Windows 7 backups - which do not do as much as Acronis.


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    Re:Anyone use or recommend WD Smartware for their backups? 2011/09/27 17:56:19 (permalink)
    Ok, it looks like the full version of Acronis Image has more features and Windows 7 integration. I hope I won't be paying for more features that I won't be using. Too bad it's also a 1 user licence - sure hope it doesn't expire.
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