Question about cloning drives: old ghost method vs new acronis way

I used to clone drives with Norton Ghost back in the day. Boot from a floppy or CD, take an image, restore it. Worked fine most of the time but took forever and would error out if the source had bad sectors. These days I just plug a drive into my SATA to USB adapter and run Acronis. It handles bad blocks better and finishes in like 20 minutes. But I have a buddy who swears Ghost is still more reliable for older hardware. Anyone else see a difference in failure rates between the old school way and the new tools?

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emery_taylor2d ago

That "old ways are always better" thing pops up everywhere, not just with tech.

sanchez.mary2d ago

Emery_taylor hit the nail on the head but I think the real blind spot is how we romanticize the past without remembering the daily hassle. My grandma swears by her cast iron skillet but she also spent an hour scrubbing it after every use, meanwhile my nonstick pan takes 30 seconds to clean. People forget the tradeoffs, like how old phones had amazing battery life but you couldn't even check a map or listen to music on them without carrying a separate gadget. It's easy to cherry pick the good parts while ignoring the constant maintenance and lack of convenience that came with them.