I do music production using Cubase and FL Studio and video production using the Adobe Creative Cloud suite. I have lots of VSTs, add-ons, plugins, etc for all these tools and I also use this PC for my basic email and web-browsing, and various writing and journaling activities. The PC that all this runs on is a big desktop Lenovo Thinkstation. It only has a 1 TB SSD drive which it mostly uses to store the programs and their associated files and data (musical instrument VSTs often have 10's or >100 GB of data). The video and music files I create live on an NAS on my network and are independently backup-up so I only need to back up the PC. This PC is typically run 24/7 because I work at it 14 hours a day and at night it runs backups, deep-anti-malware scans, or housekeeping tasks for the other PC's and devices on my network.
Because of all the work I've done installing and configuring software for this PC and the importance of my projects I want easy, reliable, total system backup and recovery. If the PC or its SSD die I want to get a new PC or pop in a new SSD and pick up where I left off. I'm told Macrium can do this. I want to buy a fully-supported (not free) version but I'd like to know whether the Home version is adequate or whether I should spring for the Commercial one?
Thanks in advance.
PS - PC's and related hardware change all the time. This PC is 10 months old. If it was destroyed and I had to get a new one how exact a match does it have to be to the old one for the recovery to be fast and smooth? (E.g. I'm thinking some hardware drivers won't match)
Because of all the work I've done installing and configuring software for this PC and the importance of my projects I want easy, reliable, total system backup and recovery. If the PC or its SSD die I want to get a new PC or pop in a new SSD and pick up where I left off. I'm told Macrium can do this. I want to buy a fully-supported (not free) version but I'd like to know whether the Home version is adequate or whether I should spring for the Commercial one?
Thanks in advance.
PS - PC's and related hardware change all the time. This PC is 10 months old. If it was destroyed and I had to get a new one how exact a match does it have to be to the old one for the recovery to be fast and smooth? (E.g. I'm thinking some hardware drivers won't match)