What's holding me back from using IFW is the way higher backup time:
Proc: i7-4810MQ (4 physical cores at 3Ghz throughout the process)
Disk: Total 300Gb NTFS partitions (out of 480Gb SSD - 200Mb/sec sustained) containing mostly apps and virtual machine images:
Dest: 1TB external 7200rpm USB3 disk at 90Mb/sec sustained throughput.
Acronis on High compression: 0:50 hrs approx (using 8 'cores').
IFW on Enhanced SizeB : 2:20 hrs approx.
Both produce 180Gb approx target file.
It takes a LOT longer if I try to backup everything on the laptop (linux ext4 partition + 1TB NTFS spinning disk containing games). Clonezilla is twice as fast approx on ext4 compared to IFW (with similar target sizes) at the moment.
I realise that in the past, multicore was not so much an issue since most machines were dual cores throttled by the backup target disk/network. These days personal systems have gigabit LAN and SSDs, so multi-threaded apps processing large amounts of data makes a huge difference for more recent set-ups.
So, my question is:
will there be a Version3 of IFW/IFL which uses all available processing power?
(If so, I would buy the whole shebang in a heartbeat
![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif)
Arst.