Solved Macrium V8 - Black Friday deal 50% off - eat your heart out Acronis!

As informed by @Bree (New Macrium Reflect Updates [2] - Windows 10 Help Forums), the annual Black Friday deal is here - a 4 licence pack for the normal cost of a single licence (or half price if only buying 1).

So £50 for 4 licences ($67) for at least (estimated) 3 years until next major upgrade.

Reflect Home - Cost per annum per licence (over 3 years) = $5.60.

Acronis - cost per annum = $45 i.e. 8 times more expensive!

cereberus said:

As informed by @Bree (New Macrium Reflect Updates [2] - Windows 10 Help Forums), the annual Black Friday deal is here - a 4 licence pack for the normal cost of a single licence (or half price if only buying 1).

So £50 for 4 licences ($67) for at least (estimated) 3 years until next major upgrade.

Reflect Home - Cost per annum per licence (over 3 years) = $5.60.

Acronis - cost per annum = $45 i.e. 8 times more expensive!

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And (IMO) at least 8 times worse than Aconis too !!! so double win here !!!

Cheers
jiimbo

jimbo45 said:

And (IMO) at least 8 times worse than Aconis too !!! so double win here !!!

Cheers
jiimbo

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8 times better you mean.

Seriously?

I really don't understand your Acronis vs Macrium bashing.

BOTH are very good except now Acronis is too lost in space forgetting that their first objective is backup not cyber protect.

There is no price competition anymore. From now on Acronis only sells subscriptions for the newly re named TI-Cyber Protect Home Office.

Now, just to let you know, more than 80% of SSD makers offer a free edition of TI with their hardware so for a lot of users it's basically free.

You can even use Acronis 2017 to back Windows 11. The issues with Acronis versions isn't with Windows, but mostly with hardware as is the case with Macrium. But if you have a Win PE recovery drive you can recover almost any backup.

So, again, both are great backup software.

My 2 cents.

cereberus said:

8 times better you mean.

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Hi there
Yes --Big typo there !!!!! -- too much booze today after watching latest James Bond Movie !! (I enjoyed it BTW).

Cheers
jimbo

Scarfed up their 4 for price of 1 deal. Sweet.

It's still available.

The Offer ends 1st December 2022. No need to panic. lol

Zardoc said:

Seriously?

I really don't understand your Acronis vs Macrium bashing.

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Acronis is bloatware with features not needed for backup software....... Macrium does not, is does what it is designed to do, nothing more , nothing less and at a far better price .... even when not on sale

My personal experience with Acronis:

Ran into a real world situation where the Acronis software could not restore data. Backup was NOT corrupted. I was on the phone with them for about 8 hours total over several days. I had to finally figure out the solution myself.

At the time I had a license to TI and to the corporate software. That very day I cancelled all licenses (even though I had maintenance for almost another year) and completely closed my Acronis account.

When I know their products better their own techs, that's where I draw the line. Backup software is CRITICAL and both it and the support have to be stone cold reliable.

Granted, that is my experience only, so take it for what it is worth.

Badger said:

The Offer ends 1st December 2022. No need to panic. lol

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You just replied to a year old thread!

cereberus said:

You just replied to a year old thread!

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Better late then never. lol The info is still correct.

Anyone know whether this offer is for a perpetual license (e.g. upgrades to new subsequent versions) or maybe just upgrades for the current sale version (v.8) ?

idgat said:

Anyone know whether this offer is for a perpetual license (e.g. upgrades to new subsequent versions) or maybe just upgrades for the current sale version (v.8) ?

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The license is a perpetual licence for v8 and all subsequent updates for v8.

If/when a v9 is released you would have to buy a new license to upgrade. Typically an upgrade license is offered at a 50% discount. You can of course continue to use v8 which will be supported with updates for a year after v9 is released. Older versions will still work, but a change in Windows may stop them working. Macrium may issue an update in that case, they have done in the past but it is not guaranteed. I still have one Win10 machine that has Reflect v7 which still works to this day. The last update for v7 added Windows 11 support.

Bree said:

The license is a perpetual licence for v8 and all subsequent updates for v8.

If/when a v9 is released you would have to buy a new license to upgrade. Typically an upgrade license is offered at a 50% discount. You can of course continue to use v8 which will be supported with updates for a year after v9 is released. Older versions will still work, but a change in Windows may stop them working. Macrium may issue an update in that case, they have done in the past but it is not guaranteed. I still have one Win10 machine that has Reflect v7 which still works to this day. The last update for v7 added Windows 11 support.

Macrium Product Support Policy

Macrium is pleased to offer three stages of product support. Stage 1: Current Support Stage 2: Extended Support Stage 3: Self-Service Support

www.macrium.com

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Tks. I'm starting to feel guilty about the number of devices I'm now freeloading with Macrium, a 4 device subscription will ease those pangs of conscience.

Dark Knight said:

Acronis is bloatware with features not needed for backup software....... Macrium does not, is does what it is designed to do, nothing more , nothing less and at a far better price .... even when not on sale

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False. It has the same options as Macrium.
Please get your information right. I had been using Acronis for 13 years. I changed to Macrium simply because Macrium has a perpetual license.
Acronis only now has an annual license.

Zardoc said:

False. It has the same options as Macrium.
Please get your information right. I had been using Acronis for 13 years. I changed to Macrium simply because Macrium has a perpetual license.
Acronis only now has an annual license.

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Mods - close this thread please - these responses are to a year old post.