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I originally asked if a full image of a 2 tb sata3 drive 40% used on a newer system taking only 2 hours was unreasonable as my IT person at work felt that was not possible.  Brian had asked a few questions in addition to pointing out that certain files are not backed up by Ghost

Brian,  after looking closer at the system, it looks like the actual used portion of the drive not counting the restore points, pagefile, etc. is about 600 gigs.  The image files are about 530 gigs.  So, I guess the answer to my original question is:  I am imaging a smaller amount of data, with very little compression, although the compression setting is "standard", which should be 40%.  Still fairly impressive write speed for a mechanical drive, but I believe the above numbers are now accurate.