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SSD Hard Drive Cloning

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I have 2x PCIE SSD's and they are presently not in Raid 1. I use one for my main OS, and the other is currently unused. For purposes of backup I'd like to clone my drive of to this secondary drive, as well as to another external drive occasionally.
I may also want to use this on other PC's in my house to ensure I have backups.

Looking for some suggestions on which software to use. Willing to spend a bit if needed.
 
Cloning implies that you want a real-time availability backup which is what RAID-1 supports, but in this situation it might be more useful in some respects to instead just use that second SSD for image storage purposes, maybe. Since you also say you'd like to backup things to another external drive from time to time then imaging definitely sounds like it would be a more appropriate solution since when making an image you can typically save some space as long as the drive/partition you're wishing to image isn't loaded completely with non-compressible items like audio or video files (because they're already compressed as it is).

As for imaging software, there's tons of apps out there for it: Acronis True Image, Macrium Reflect, CloneZilla, Drive Image XML, and many many others, it's just a case of you perhaps testing some of them and see which one best suits your needs and purposes. If you set things up properly, you can do real-time imaging from the source to the target while your OS is actually running at most any point in time which can be pretty useful in recovery situations.

A 1:1 RAID-1 cloning might not be the best solution in case of some kind of malware or virus situation because the bad stuff would be duplicated in real-time to the second drive anyway - with imaging you have the option to roll back to the previous image which would be very useful in such a situation because the previous image might not suffer from the malware/virus/etc issues aka great for troubleshooting as well.
 
Symantec Ghost 12.x supports UEFI partition and runs under normal windows or windows PE.
 
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