R-Drive Image - Everything You Need To Know About R-Drive Image
If your looking for a review of the R-Drive image, then you will want to read this article. Specifically I will give you the features and benefits of this software, as well as an analysis of the pros and cons. Use the information you find in this article to determine if R-Drive image is the right type of software for your backup needs.
R-Drive image is software manufactured by R-tools Technology Inc. Currently version 3.0 is the latest on the market, and it comes with a price tag of $44.95. Is it worth the price? Let's look at the features.
R-Drive will protect your backup images, and create incremental backups of your drives, to ensure that you don't lose any of your files to disasters such as system crashes and virus attacks. It will also replace an existing drive with a new one, if that is your desire. You can use a password to protect your backups and scheduling.
R-Drive also allows you to connect to a virtual disk drive, and create a startup disk write on that drive. However, there are very few customizable options beyond this. With this in mind, let's look at the ease-of-use that the R-Drive offers. The R-Drive has a control panel that is simple, and easy to navigate. However, it's still confusing on how you go about creating an exact image backup of your data. First you have to select the partition of Drive you want to create a backup for, then you must locate your image destination, to save you disk image. Finally, you need to enter the name of the file you want to save it as. These are not necessary steps, considering most other backup software can perform these things automatically for you, and very quickly too. In addition, some users have complained that R-Drive has trouble locating certain drives, such as DVD drives and CD-R drives. This can be problematic if you're planning on writing to these drives, to save your disk image. The whole backup and restoration process takes a bit longer on a R-drive than other types of backup software. It is clearly slower than some of the other backup software I've tested for my computer. In conclusion, while the R-Drive Image is adequate software, and can get the job done, there seems to be a lot better options on the market, specifically at that price point. Take this into consideration, and go out and search for a few other backup software, before making a commitment to purchase one of these backup software programs.
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