Rium Reflect Series Of Partitions

In almost every case, the performance bottleneck is the write speed of the backupclone destination since the source read speed is usually faster than the destinations write speed.

I have (2) HDDs: (1) 250GB SSD (OS) (1) WD Black 7200 RPM 1TB HDD (all apps and files).

Thank you much in advance for a prompt and detailed response.

Alan.

Why do you need REFLECT installed anywhere until youre finished partitioning your HDD I dont see a use for it before then.

If youre going to use it as you build your System, install it on the System partition (SSD), use it as needed, when finished, uninstall it from the System partition and re-install it on your HDD instead.

Any images produced while using it during the build will be available, if needed, after your build is finished and REFLECT is where it belongs.

You can accomplish that with the diskpart utility thats built into Windows and even available within Windows installation media environments.

Just press ShiftF10 at any point within Windows Setup to access Command Prompt and then just entering diskpart.

Or since it sounds like youve already got Windows 10 installed and are optimizing it, you can use diskpart there or even the Disk Management graphical interface tool within Windows to partition your disk.

But in terms of Reflect bootable media, Reflect includes the ability to create Rescue Media, which is bootable media that can be used to perform backup and restore tasks, but you need Reflect installed somewhere to create Rescue Media.

Ideally Rescue Media is created on the same PC you expect to use it with, but that isnt a hard requirement, so if you have another PC you could potentially create Rescue Media on that PC that would work on the one youre building.

The only other option is Reflect Portable, but that requires a rather expensive Technicians License since its intended for a completely different use case.

I am dedicating the SSD (C:) to the OS.

Win 10 is already installed.

As far as Disk Management graphical interface tool within Windows to partition a disk.

Froggie wrote: If youre going to use it as you build your System, install it on the System partition (SSD), use it as needed, when finished, uninstall it from the System partition and re-install it on your HDD instead.

Is it feasible to install Reflect to the SSD to partition the HDD.

If you were trying to restore an image onto this disk or clone some other disk onto it, then yes Reflect would allow you to specify things like the sequence and sizing of the restoredcloned instances of the partitions on the destination, and it would create them as necessary during that image restoreclone operation -- but Reflect will not help you just create new empty partitions (or modify existing partitions) on a disk that is not the target of such an operation.

Rium Reflect Series Of Partitions

As for trust, creating a series of partitions on a currently empty disk is a trivial process, so I dont see why youre having trust issues with the Disk Management application.

It has existed for years and is routinely used by IT professionals on everything from consumer PCs up to critical enterprise servers.

And after all, its easy enough to tell whether or not youve got the partition layout you want, and if you dont, then you can just erase the disk and do it again since theres no data on it anyway.

Lastly, the drive where Reflect is installed wont have any impact on its performance.

Macrium Reflect Portable