Macrium Reflect is a powerful disk imaging and backup tool for Windows, developed by Paramount Software (Macrium Software) from United Kingdom in 2006. It generates disk images and file backup archives by utilizing Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service, which ensures data accuracy at a specific point in time.

iTunes has clearly become an overdeveloped piece of junk software. Because it integrates so many unpractical functions, and the consequences are obvious: has extremely slow startup speed, takes up a lot of hard disk space, and consumes a lot of system resources. If you've fed up with official software like iTunes, too, then try Syncios, a third-party solution that lets you easily manage all kinds of data from a variety of iOS devices on your PC.

HDClone is a professional hard disk copying/backuping/rescuing tool from Germany. It can thoroughly copy/clone any data (that is, each byte) on a hard disk to another from the physical or logical layer. This means that, in addition to the backup task of data or hard disk, it can also help you finish the migration work of data or system, as well as the data rescue mission.

BackUp Maker is a very good data, file multi-threading (so it's very fast) backup software from Germany, which is neglected or overlooked but professional and user-friendly. More than anything, it's totally free for both private and educational purposes.

Iperius Backup is an automatic file, data backup freeware with flexible and powerful features, from Italy. It supports backup for multiple types of data (file/folder backup, drive imaging, database backup...), and various backup patterns (full backup, incremental backup... ) on all kinds of storage devices (USB hard drive, RDX drive, NAS, LTO/DAT tape drive, networked computer, cloud storage and FTP server).