Yesterday, 07:06 PM
I thought you may be interested in the results of some testing I have performed using 3 different External USB drives.
I have done a full system backup of the same 4 partitions (100MB EFI system, 16MB MSR, 100GB Win11 C:\ and 800MB Recovery) using both Macrium V8 Free and Hasleo 5.4.2.5.
In each case I ran the backup without the verify option ticked, so I could check the actual backup time.
I then ran a manual full image verify to time how long that took in each case.
I created new tasks in each case so that the backup folder contained just the single backup image.
The USB drives I used were as follows:
External Crucial X8 2TB SSD
External Toshiba 2TB 2.5" HDD
External Seagate 4TB 2.5" HDD
Results:
Macrium V8 Backup Time Verify Time Size
Crucial X8 3m 09s 2m 35s 38GB
Toshiba 2TB 6m 57s 6m 53s 38GB
Seagate 4TB 6m 15s 5m 22s 38GB
Hasleo V5425 Backup Time Verify Time Size
Crucial X8 1m 04s 1m 53s 35GB
Toshiba 2TB 7m 08s 19m 47s 35GB
Seagate 4TB 5m 31s 12m 01s 35GB
Conclusions.
in both Macrium and Hasleo the backup and verify times using ext SSD are considerably shorter as expected.
The verify times are roughly similar to the backup times in all cases for Macrium
The times are acceptable for Macrium using ext HDD
Hasleo produces slightly smaller backup files due to the new compression method implemented since V5
The verify times are longer than the backup times in all case for Hasleo, in one case by nearly 3 times !!
The Hasleo verify times are acceptable using an external SSD, but the times using external HDD clearly need some work to deliver an acceptable time.
Let me know if you need me to clarify any of my results, or to run further tests.
I have done a full system backup of the same 4 partitions (100MB EFI system, 16MB MSR, 100GB Win11 C:\ and 800MB Recovery) using both Macrium V8 Free and Hasleo 5.4.2.5.
In each case I ran the backup without the verify option ticked, so I could check the actual backup time.
I then ran a manual full image verify to time how long that took in each case.
I created new tasks in each case so that the backup folder contained just the single backup image.
The USB drives I used were as follows:
External Crucial X8 2TB SSD
External Toshiba 2TB 2.5" HDD
External Seagate 4TB 2.5" HDD
Results:
Macrium V8 Backup Time Verify Time Size
Crucial X8 3m 09s 2m 35s 38GB
Toshiba 2TB 6m 57s 6m 53s 38GB
Seagate 4TB 6m 15s 5m 22s 38GB
Hasleo V5425 Backup Time Verify Time Size
Crucial X8 1m 04s 1m 53s 35GB
Toshiba 2TB 7m 08s 19m 47s 35GB
Seagate 4TB 5m 31s 12m 01s 35GB
Conclusions.
in both Macrium and Hasleo the backup and verify times using ext SSD are considerably shorter as expected.
The verify times are roughly similar to the backup times in all cases for Macrium
The times are acceptable for Macrium using ext HDD
Hasleo produces slightly smaller backup files due to the new compression method implemented since V5
The verify times are longer than the backup times in all case for Hasleo, in one case by nearly 3 times !!
The Hasleo verify times are acceptable using an external SSD, but the times using external HDD clearly need some work to deliver an acceptable time.
Let me know if you need me to clarify any of my results, or to run further tests.