What a peculiar review.
No attention whatsoever paid to resource usage.
Obviously if you jack up ram and cpu usage,. plus have several services running in the background - the backup will be faster.
Why use "default" settings if conducting a speed test. Normal/default means different things to different software designers.
I set each to it's highest possible speed - then checked the resource usage.
My own tests reached the opposite conclusion.
I set each app. to normal/medium compression, and the highest priority ( speed) .
Paragon does not have a high priority setting - so obviously was not fast at 13 mins , with average cpu use 11-12%.
Macrium was extremely fast at 6mins 30 and average cpu 22-23%.
Acronis was fairly fast at 7 mins 30 mins - but cpu usage was around 39%.
Clear winner is Macrium - twice the speed of Paragon at about twice the cpu use.
Paragon can't be sped up, sadly, but cpu usage relative to speed is good - no trouble working over the top of it during backup.
Acronis does allow speed adjustment, but is not as fast as Macrium , yet by far the most resource intense.
There was some difference in the backup image size , which should be be taken into account, but not much - with again Macrium doing very well.
Your system may be different - and of course , the features each provides may appeal to different people.
