Ga-Ep35-Ds3l Xpress recovery 2 help (vs. acronis and ghost)

I have a gigabyte ga-ep35-ds3l motherboard, and it comes with an express recovery feature that can backup an image of the drive and restore it in the future (just like system recovery on the oem pcs such as hp and toshiba). The program's name is Xpress Recovery 2 http://drivers.softpedia.com/g...ery2-101070817.shtml. I have a few questions about it:

1. Will it compress the data like acronis or ghost (meaning backing up 20gb of data would fit into an 8gb space).

2. How is it compared to acronis?

3. Is it worth the trouble, or is drive image xml better?

Thanks for your support.