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<blockquote data-quote="bazang" data-source="post: 1103049" data-attributes="member: 114717">I am 100% for all software being paid. That is not the issue. Macrium (and others using the same model - Acronis comes to mind) is a poor value. It is quite expensive relative to what the purchaser gets, plus Macrium has refused to provide anything other than (1) and (4) seat license packages.This &quot;poor value&quot; changes if the consumer has more than a need to use a software like Macrium to avoid the annoyance or work to clean install the OS and rebuild the system. Most users here are doing exactly that - using a backup solution because they are lazy - and do not have any true critical need for disaster recovery.If the consumer is a home user with a side hustle that cannot tolerate a system being down for longer than a couple of hours, then the cost of a backup solution such as Macrium could be justified. Backing-up a 2 TB porn or anime collection is not cost-justified whenever there are equally, if not more, effective methods at much lower cost.If a user is working on their PhD research and thesis, then the need to create backsups using different methods is critical. The loss of the work-product would be a devastating event that could potentially unravel a graduate student&#039;s entire doctorate program. Such use-cases meet the justification threshold to pay for a software like Macrium.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bazang, post: 1103049, member: 114717"] I am 100% for all software being paid. That is not the issue. Macrium (and others using the same model - Acronis comes to mind) is a poor value. It is quite expensive relative to what the purchaser gets, plus Macrium has refused to provide anything other than (1) and (4) seat license packages. This "poor value" changes if the consumer has more than a need to use a software like Macrium to avoid the annoyance or work to clean install the OS and rebuild the system. Most users here are doing exactly that - using a backup solution because they are lazy - and do not have any true critical need for disaster recovery. If the consumer is a home user with a side hustle that cannot tolerate a system being down for longer than a couple of hours, then the cost of a backup solution such as Macrium could be justified. Backing-up a 2 TB porn or anime collection is not cost-justified whenever there are equally, if not more, effective methods at much lower cost. If a user is working on their PhD research and thesis, then the need to create backsups using different methods is critical. The loss of the work-product would be a devastating event that could potentially unravel a graduate student's entire doctorate program. Such use-cases meet the justification threshold to pay for a software like Macrium. [/QUOTE]

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