Mac/Win software equivalents

[Rockadile]

I'm looking for the Windows equivalent of..

Scannerz or SoftRAID
Macs Fan Control


I can also edit this post to create an ongoing list if people chime in on other software.

Color meter
Just Color Picker for Digital Color Meter

Hard drive back up
For Carbon Copy Cloner:
Acronis True Image
Casper by fssdev
Clonezilla (text-based)
Veeam's Agent for Microsoft Windows

Oops!Backup for Time Machine

Hard drive speed test
CrystalDiskMark for Blackmagic Disk Speed Test

MP3 muxer / tagger
Xmedia Recode for Subler

 

[Queen6]

Windows can create it's own drive image, however it's not bootable; Settings - Updates & Security - Backup. Has never failed for me

Just Color Picker for Digital Color Meter
Xmedia Recode for Subler

Q-6

 

[Rockadile]

Windows can create it's own drive image, however it's not bootable; Settings - Updates & Security - Backup. Has never failed for me

Just Color Picker for Digital Color Meter
Xmedia Recode for Subler

Q-6

Would want a bootable one.
Willing to pay for quality, no frills software

The Ryzen / Skylake X craze has pulled me in to making another desktop. Pascal almost did.

 

[Mikael H]

Would want a bootable one.
Willing to pay for quality, no frills software

The Ryzen / Skylake X craze has pulled me in to making another desktop. Pascal almost did.

If you're mainly looking for backup software, I'd say go with Veeam's Agent for Microsoft Windows (used to be Endpoint Backup but the new version is considerably more competent even for business use). https://www.veeam.com/windows-endpoint-server-backup-free.html

 

[SDColorado]

For a Carbon Copy Cloner replacement, have a look at Acronis True Image, if you don't mind paying or Clonezilla for a free, no frills open source option.

 

[Rockadile]

Thank you, added those.

Meanwhile I found,
Image for Windows - https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-windows.htm
and
HDClone - https://www.miray.de/products/applications/hdclone.html

Anybody used either?

 

[ozaz]

For CCC equivalent take a look at Casper (by fssdev). When I was looking for a disk imaging program this is the one I was closest to getting. I've forgotten why I was considering it ahead of Acronis True Image. In the end I never got it because I decided not to bother maintaining a bootable backup.

I now just auto backup my data to a network drive, and for this I use Oops!Backup which has similarities to Time Machine.

 

[maflynn]

For CCC equivalen

Back in the day, there used to be a tool called Norton Ghost Image, it was probably one of the more popular cloning applications. I used it successfully myself. Like much of the Norton utilities, Once Symantec took it over, things went down hill. I think now its strictly an enterprise targeted application and costs 250 for 5 licenses (the minimum amount that you can purchase) and that's just for one year of support.

 

[lowendlinux]

FWIW Acronis works as well in my uses as Norton Ghost used to.