I use Acronis 2015. I stopped upgrading when they introduced cloud backup. I use an eSata base. It's like a USB base but it has a sata connector to an external sata port on my PC. It's great for bare metal restore as you don't need to go through any network or need any driver to connect. You just put a blank drive in the machine, boot from the CD/bluray drive then run the recovery client and load the image. Also you can boot directly from the imaged drive if you want.
PS: Acronis has a
sale going on atm.