I'm a long time CCC user on the Mac platform. I'm pretty happy with it as an application to clone my HDD on a fortnightly basis as a backup measure. Recently the price went from $0 to $39.95. That's a not insignificant price hike. Certainly not gouging but a hike none-the-less. I'm willing to pay that money even tho' it's twice what I just paid for a full OS (OSX Mountain Lion) just recently.
So before I take the plunge I'd like to sound out some of the competition, namely SuperDuper!. This is $27.95. Clearly this wins out on price.
SuperDuper! also advertises the fact that it employs Smart Update. As I understand it, this simply means that only what has changed since the last update will be changed in the backup, thus saving a lot of time. SuperDuper! minus this capability is free. The problem is that CCC seems to employ a similar approach too. Yet a 400 GB run will always take around 4 hrs on my HDD set-up using CCC.
Will SuperDuper! be significantly faster? Anyone on here have experience with both? Any other approaches I should look at?
(The data on my HDD are of the 'I really can't lose it' variety.)