11-30-2025, 12:27 PM
(11-30-2025, 03:49 AM)garioch7 Wrote: The obvious answer is that MR8 has slightly better recommended image file compression than the current version of HBSP. Paramount Software has been "in the game" a lot longer, and has considerably more resources than Hasleo. I think the current HBSP statistics make it a serious contender in the imaging software market. MRX apparently has even better compression than MR8.
Dear Phil,
Hasleo Backup Suite 5 and Macrium Reflect X both use the ZStd compression algorithm, which can provide a certain improvement in compression ratio. It is unclear whether the latest version of Macrium Reflect 8 also uses the ZStd compression algorithm, but it is almost certain that this is not caused by the compression algorithm.
As mentioned by @al3x, Macrium Reflect 8 might be filtering out snapshot files or other files by default. Alternatively, among the six partitions being backed up, there may be non-Windows partitions that Hasleo Backup Suite does not support, such as EXT4 partitions. Please also verify that your pagefile.sys is indeed only 4GB in size.
Have a nice weekend!
Best regards,