Yes, security patches will still be provided until 1st January 2024. Will future security vulnerabilities be fixed? Macrium Reflect Free v8.0 is the last version to receive feature, compatibility or bug fix updates. Macrium Reflect Free Product - End Of Life (EOL) Security patches, however, will be provided until January 1st, 2024. Version 8, which is the latest free version, is the last to receive new features and bug fixes, among other changes. The firm has published a notice on its product support page notifying visitors about the discontinuation. RST provides no real benefits when running one disk and it's prone to issues with more difficult recovery if the OS messes up.Macrium Software, which makes the popular Windows backup and cloning utility Macrium Reflect, has announced that it will be discontinuing its Macrium Reflect Free edition soon. One note: If the new unit uses Intel Rapid Store (RST or RAID ON for Dell) and it's ON then change it to AHCI instead, do this before installing an OS and MR and creating the NVME compatible recovery media. I never thought about it but I guess you can just use the 30 day trial version of MR to do the deed too, without risking messing up your licenses. If something goes wrong physically or I do something stupid at least I have a very recent backup to recover from. I deactivated MR and put the license back on the original then did the clone - actually I always work from a backup rather than clone drives, less chance to muck something up. and licensed it and created the MR recovery ISO. Then installed MR on a quick Windows 10 install I did on the NEW unit. Because I needed the MR Recovery to also have the Redeploy option (paid product only), I ended up removing the license from the M.2 unit. I was stuck like this when I replaced a machine on which I had MR installed on. The recover media that sees the NVME SHOULD see the SATA M.2 just fine as it's a common interface. Try the recovery media FIRST to make sure it sees the NVME, if it does not then you'll have to setup a quick Windows installation on the new PC and install MR on it and create the recovery media that CAN see the NVME.

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