Imaging Performance Testing: MR8, ETBH, HBSP

[admin]

@garioch7,

Thanks to Phil for testing, glad to see everything's working fine. Have a nice day!

Best regards,

[garioch7]

Another three weeks have passed, so here are the results of my latest three-week testing cycle of MR8 vs ETBH vs HBSP.

I also want to acknowledge, with sincere gratitude, the excellent suggestion by @Bespoken that these regular posts of my testing cycles should have a "Summary Table."  I will be including those tables in all future posts.  If anyone else has suggestions to improve these posts, please PM me.


Imaging/Check Image Times

Computer:

2019 Dell XPS 8930 SE Desktop Computer
i7 CPU, 32 GB RAM
DELL GeForce RTX 2060 GPU (6 GB Memory)
Three Internal Drives:
Drive 0 [HDD]: ST2000DM008-2FR102 (ZFL0WX49) [1863 GB] D:
Drive 1 [HDD]: WDC WD4005FZBX-00K5WB0 (V30884SF) [3726 GB] G: (Target Image Drive)
Drive 2 [SSD]: SSDPEMKF010T8 NVMe INTEL 1024GB (5CD2_E428_9150_7048.) [953 GB] (Source Image Drive)
No BitLocker Encryption on any Drives



Common Defaults to all three programs:

High Priority
Full Disk/Partition Images (all six used partitions, one partition (7) is empty)
Source Drive: Internal Intel 1 TB SSD (Disk 2)
Target Drive: Internal WD Black 4 TB HDD (Disk 1)
Default Compression (Recommended)
OS: Windows 11 Pro 25H2 (26200.8894), unless otherwise stated.
Recommended Program Defaults, unless otherwise noted.


Listed in chronological order of testing (earliest date to the latest date).


2026-07-24 (Times rounded off to the nearest minute)
Macrium Reflect 8 [MR8] (8.1.8853)
Default Filters

Disk 2 (6 partitions) Size: 250.9 GB
MR8 Image Size: 185.7 GB

Image Backup - Disk 2: 14:03 - 14:17 (14 minutes)
Image Verify - Disk 2: 14:17 - 14:31 (14 minutes)
Total Imaging Time: 28 minutes



2026-07-31 (Times rounded off to the nearest minute)
2026 Easeus Todo Backup Home [ETBH] (18.0.0 [Build 20251203])
Default Filters

Disk 2 (6 partitions) Size: 254.3 GB
ETBH Image Size: 200.0 GB

Image Backup - Disk 2: 13:55 - 14:11 (16 minutes)
Check Image - Disk 2: 14:12 - 14:36 (24 minutes)
Total Imaging Time: 40 minutes



2026-08-07 (Times rounded off to the nearest minute)
Hasleo Backup Suite Professional [HBSP] 5.9.2.1
Default Filters, Smart Backup enabled, Highest Priority.

Disk 2 (6 partitions) Size: 255.7 GB
HBSP Image Size: 174.7 GB GB

Image Backup - Disk 2: 13:48 - 14:01 (13 minutes)
Check Complete Image - Disk 2: 14:02 - 14:15 (13 minutes)
Total Imaging Time: 26 minutes

Have a great weekend.

Regards,
Phil

[admin]

Thanks again, @garioch7. It would be even better if more users could provide additional test data.

Have a nice weekwnd!

[garioch7]

@admin,

It would be even better if more users could provide additional test data.

I totally agree with you.  I would love to see more testing results being posted here regularly.  They would not have to be comparisons with other products.  Even reports of HBS performance on multiple platforms would add much more clarity as to how HBS performs on many different systems, thereby providing valuable feedback to the Hasleo Team.

Have a great day.

Regards,
Phil

[Bespoken]

Well you asked, so here are my informal test results.

Test System backups (HBS V5.9.2.1 & MR8 v8.0.7175) were performed from a laptop running Win 11 25H2 26200.8894. The target was an external SSD plugged into a UBS3 port. The backups were run with the highest priority, maximum compression, and 4 partitions selected. Two backup were performed with HBS, one with filters enabled to exclude "Windows page, hibernations and swap files", and "Windows VSS snapshot files", and the second with filters disabled. I have no idea if MR8 automatically excludes these Windows files. Setting up a filter in MR8 is not as easy/simple compared to HBS, so I did not bother.

The initial Source Size was identical for all the test. The used space on the C: drive was 88.7 GB

These were the individual steps performed:

- full backup to ext USB with MR8
- check integrity with MR8
- full backup to ext USB with HBS filters enabled
- check integrity with HBS
- full backup to ext USB with HBS filters disabled
- check integrity with HBS
- disk cleanup
- restore HBS
- verify boot and OS working normally
- disk cleanup
- restore MR8
- verify boot and OS working normally

The disk cleanup made only minor changes to the system, so the restore was fast as expected.



ps. A Full backup over wifi (not part of the test) to a network storage drive using HBS took 26 minutes.

[admin]

@Bespoken,

Thank you very much for taking the time to conduct these informal tests and share your detailed results. We truly appreciate the community's efforts to provide real-world performance data, and your feedback is very valuable to us.

I noticed that your tests were performed using Macrium Reflect v8.0.7175, whereas the latest version of Macrium Reflect v8 should be v8.1.8853. If you or other users could run similar tests using the most current version of Reflect, it might make the comparison more fair and meaningful.

Thank you again for your contribution to this thread.

Best regards,

[Bespoken]

I noticed that your tests were performed using Macrium Reflect v8.0.7175, whereas the latest version of Macrium Reflect v8 should be v8.1.8853. If you or other users could run similar tests using the most current version of Reflect, it might make the comparison more fair and meaningful.

Similar tests redone with MR v8.1.8853 and HBS V5.9.2.1. Both using default setting but with high compression. The source was now 88.0 GB. Here are the revised stats: