Best imaging software?

FOG is actually one of the best I have used.  It is very easy to setup and maintain and does so much more than most use it for.  One of the big kicks for me is that it is capable of imaging multiple OS's and is not limited to doing Windows only.  Clonezilla is pretty easy to setup and use as well but FOG has more capabilities.

Acronis is good, but I have mixed feelings about it.  I absolutely LOVE True Image, which is designed and intended for single-PC use.  Snap Deploy, Acronis' multi-PC product, is good when it works properly.  Unfortunately, I have to fight it quite a bit when pushing an image to more than about 10 PCs at a time.  If I'm pushing to any more than 10 at a time, there are all kinds of things that cause it to fail.  It has a service that runs on the server that seems to be fickle, it crashes a lot on big pushes. 
Symantec Ghost used to be a good product, but they've stopped developing it and it doesn't work with UEFI.

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