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Name: Active SMART
Version: 2.93
License: Shareware
Language: English
Official Website: http://www.ariolic.com/
Download: Official Program Page | Offficial HTTP Download (6MB)
Updated: 2012/5/9 by Webmaster
Description: ActiveSMART is a hard drive health diagnostic and failure prediction software for hard drives. It uses S.M.A.R.T. technology to alert about impending data loss situations. What's inside?
- Hard drive diagnostic using SMART
- Disk space analyzer
- Disk health, performance & temperature monitor
- Detailed S.M.A.R.T. reports
- Hard drive overheating monitor
- Multiple alerting options and more!
Name: Acronis Disk Director Home
Version: 11
License: Freeware
Language: English, Multinational
Official Website: http://www.acronis.com/
Download: Official Program Page | Official HTTP Download (181MB) - English version
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: Acronis Disk Director Home brings together the most valuable disk management functions and partition recovery tools in a single powerful package.
- Partition Management - A comprehensive array of expert-level features gives users the control they need to maximize disk use. You can merge, split, resize, copy, and move partitions without losing data. It also lets you quickly reorganize a hard drive's structure.
- Acronis Recovery Expert - Acronis Recovery Expert is a highly reliable data partition and disk recovery tool that prepares you to tackle and repair the results of a personal error, hardware or software failure, virus attack or hacker's intrusive destruction, fast.
- Acronis OS Selector - Acronis OS Selector allows you to install multiple operating systems on one computer. You can boot an operating system from any partition on any hard disk or have several multiboot systems on the same partition. It's easy to use and fast.
- A more detailed list of features is found here.
Name: AS SSD Benchmark
Version: 1.6.4237.30508
License: Freeware
Language: English
Official Website: http://alex-is.de/
Download: Official Program Page | Offficial HTTP Download (258KB)
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: With AS SSD Benchmark you can determine your SSD drive's performance by conducting several specific tests.
Test the sequential or random read/write performance without using the cache. AS SSD Benchmark reads/writes a 1 GByte file as well as randomly chosen 4K blocks. Additionally, it performs the tests using 1 or 64 threads and it determines the SSD's access time.
Two extra benchmark tests examine the drive's behaviour when (1) copying a few big files, a lot of small files and a mixture of file sizes by using cached copy functions of your OS as well as (2) reading/writing data depending on the data's compressibility.
Name: Auslogics Disk Defrag (Free/Pro)
Version: 3.4.3.5 (Free) / 4.0.1.50 (Pro)
License: Shareware (w/ free version, personal use ONLY)
Language: English, Multinational
Official Website: http://www.auslogics.com/
Download: Free: Official Program Page | Cnet HTTP Download (4.9MB)
Pro: Official Program Page | MajorGeeks HTTP Download (3.4MB)
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: Auslogics Disk Defrag is the best free disk defrag software that will improve your PC's performance by defragmenting and re-arranging files on your disk. Some of the features include:
- Defragment & Optimize - Disk Defrag doesn't only defragment files - it can also optimize your hard drives' file system to gain even higher performance.
- Free Space Consolidation - Simple defragmentation of data files leaves fragmented free space.
- System Files Smart Placement - Minimizes the time needed to access system files and improves overall computer performance.
- Keeping the MFT Reserved Zone Clear - Moves regular data files from the MFT Reserved Zone, allowing NTFS to allocate contiguous space for the MFT records.
- Single File or Folder Defragmentation and Auto-Defragmentation
- Customizing Disk Defrag - Use many handy settings to customize your Disk Defrag the way you want.
- The Free version is only for personal use. The Professional version is for business users and have far more features. Compare Free and Pro versions - here.
Name: CrystalDiskInfo
Version: 5.0.4
License: Freeware
Language: English
Official Website: http://crystalmark.info/
Download: Official Program Page | Offficial HTTP Download (3.0MB)
Updated: 2012/09/05 by Alex
Description: CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD/SSD utility software which supports S.M.A.R.T. and a part of USB-HDD. It has the following main features:
- Supports a part of external USB disks
- Monitoring health status and temperature
- Alert Mail
- Graph of S.M.A.R.T. information
- Control AAM/APM settings
- Learn more here.
Name: Defraggler
Version: 2.10.413
License: Freeware (only for personal use) / Shareware
Language: English, Multinational
Official Website: ww.piriform.com/
Download: Official Program Page | FileHipoo HTTP Download (3.35MB) [personal]
Updated: 2012/5/27 by Webmaster
Description: Defraggler, developed by Piriform Ltd (same as CCleaner), is a fast disk defragmentation tool to defrag your entire hard drive, or individual files - unique in the industry. This compact and portable Windows application supports NTFS and FAT32 file systems. It has the following main features:
- Specify one or more files, folders, or the whole drive to defragment.
- Safe and Secure
- Compact and portable
- Interactive drive map - Blocks that are empty, not fragmented, or needing defragmentation.
- Quick Defrag - Give your hard drive a quick touch-up with Quick Defrag.
- Defragment free space - Organizes empty disk space to further prevent fragmentation.
- Scheduled defragmentation
- Multinational support
This program is free for personal use only. For business users, it is required to purchase a commercial license.
Name: Diskeeper (Home/Pro/Server Editions)
Version: 12
License: Shareware
Language: English, Multinational
Official Website: http://www.condusiv.com/
Download: Official Program Page (all versions) | Offficial HTTP Download [Home] (50.1MB)
Official HTTP Download [Pro] | Official HTTP Download [Server]
Updated: 2012/6/7 by Webmaster
Description: Diskeeper is a file system fragmentation program for Microsoft Windows. This proactive technology keeps systems running like new whether you are a large enterprise, small business, government agency or a home user.
Key Benefits and Highlights:
- Keep your servers, storage & applications running like new
- Make sure Microsoft applications work at top speed
- Increase PC, workstation and server performance
- Help reclaim free space for improved storage utilization
- Easy to buy, install and use minimizing impact on IT staff
- Centrally manage using administrator
- Microsoft certified for the latest Windows environment.
The software has a lots of features, please refer to the program page of each for more information. It also comes with several versions (for both Home and Business users).
Name: EaseUS Partition Master (Home/Business Editions)Version: 9.1.1
License: Shareware (w/ free Home version - free for personal use)
Language: English, Multinational
Official Website: http://www.partition-tool.com/
Download: Official Program Page (all versions) | Cnet HTTP Download [Home] (11.5MB)
Official HTTP Download [Pro] | Official HTTP Download [Server]
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: EaseUS Partition Master is an all-in-one partition solution and the easiest and most convenient hard disk partition manager toolkit including Partition Manager, Disk & Partition Copy Wizard and Partition Recovery Wizard for all systems running under Windows environment.
Highlights and Benefits:
- Support Windows 8 32 & 64 bit.
- Upgrade system disk to a bigger one with one-click.
- Resize system volume on dynamic disk.
- Safely merge adjacent partitions into one without data loss.
- Repair RAID-5 volume by reconstructing the data of the failed member on another disk.
- Support command line, special for running a batch file to manage partitions.
- Automatically or manually Create, Delete, Resize/Move, Merge, Split, Wipe or Format partitions.
- Copy Wizard to copy partition or migrate entire hard disk to another without Windows reinstallation.
- Partition Recovery Wizard to recover deleted or lost partitions.
- The Free Home version (for Personal Use Only) is considered as a really good Partition Magic alternative. There are also commercial package for aimed for business users (click for more info, like features list etc.)
- EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition | EaseUS Partition Master Professional Edition
- EaseUS Partition Master Server Edition | EaseUS Partition Master Unlimited Edition
- EaseUS Partition Master Technician Edition
Name: HDDlife Pro
Version: 4.0.184
License: Shareware
Languge: English, Multinational
Official Website: http://hddlife.com/
Download: Official Program Page | Offficial HTTP Download [Pro] (6.5MB)
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: HDDLlife Pro is a hard drive monitor that gives users warning disk failure. HDDLife reads S.M.A.R.T. data from all of your hard drives and allows you to see clearly the health and resources of your disks.
Main Features list:
- Control the health of your hard drives with the S.M.A.R.T. technology and warn you about potential problems the moment they start developing
- Monitor all your hard drives in the background - all the time!
- Support external USB disks.
- Display the drive's health, temperature, resources and free space.
- Display hard disk activities in the system tray.
- A complete list of features is found here.
Name: HD Speed
Version: 1.7.4.96
License: Freeware
Language: English
Official Website: http://www.steelbytes.com/
Download: Official Program Page | Offficial HTTP Download [Eng] (83KB)
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: HD_Speed is a simple utility for measuring both sustained and burst data transfer rates of your hard disks, cd/dvd-roms, flash cards/sticks, floppys, etc. Realtime graphical display.
Name: HD Tune (Free/Pro)
Version:.2.55 (Free) / 5.00 (Pro)
License: Shareware (w/ free version)
Language: English
Official Website: http://www.hdtune.com/
Download: Official Program Page (all versions) | Official HTTP Download [Free] (628KB)
Official HTTP Download [Pro] (1.51MB)
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: HD Tune is a freeware hard disk utility for Microsoft Windows with many functions such as measure the drives performance, scan for errors, check the health status (S.M.A.R.T.) and securely erase all data. There is a commercial version HD Tune Pro, which supports performing secure erasure, running comprehensive error scans (including a review of a disk's SMART health status), displaying read, write, and spin-up times and recording benchmark performance metrics.
Name: IObit SmartDefrag
Version: 2.4.0.1158
License: Freeware
Language: English, Multinational
Official Website: http://www.iobit.com/
Download: Official Program Page | Cnet HTTP Download (4.6MB)
Updated: 2012/5/13 by Webmaster
Description: IObit Smart Defrag is a free tool that provides extremely fast and efficient defragmentation to your hard drives intelligently for faster file loading and high disk performance. With "install it and forget it" feature, Smart Defrag works automatically and quietly in the background on your PC, keeping your hard disk running at its top speed. This powerful, award-winning free defragmenter is 100% safe and clean with no adware, spyware, or viruses.
Key Benefits and Highlights:
- Extremely fast and efficient defragmentation
- Designed for top disk performance
- Always-on automatic defragment
- "Boot Time Defrag" Technology - Defrag files during the system boot process, while these files cannot be defragged or are not safe to move after the system is already boot-up.
Name: MHDD
Version: 4.6
License: Freeware
Language: English
Official Website: http://hddguru.com/
Download: Official Program Page (Floppy/ISO Images)
Updated: 2012/1 by Webmaster
Description: MHDD is the most popular freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics.
MHDD supports these interfaces: IDE, Serial ATA, SCSI. Also there is a possibility to access an USB storage, there are drivers for emulation (USB->SCSI).
This software can make precise diagnostic of the mechanical part of a drive, view SMART attributes, perform Low-level format, bad sector repair, different tests and tens of other functions.
Name: O&O Defrag (Pro/Server)*
Version: 15.5.323 (Pro) / 15.0.107 (Server)
License: Shareware
Language: English, Multinational
Official Website: http://www.oo-software.com/
Download: Pro: Official Program Page | Official HTTP Download [x86] (20.9MB)
Server: Official Program Page | Official HTTP Download [x86] (45MB)
Updated: 2012/5/27 by Webmaster
Description: O&O Defag is a professional defragmentation tool aimed to gain maximum performance for your computer.
Product Highlights:
- Performance increases of up to 100%
- Prevents new fragmentation efficiently in advance
- Extends the life of your hardware
- Increases the chances of recovering lost data
- Automatic defragmentation in the background
- Defragmentation of your PC at the push of a button
- A total of eight defragmentation methods!
- Power Management for Notebooks
- And more.... A complete list of features
Name: Partition Logic
Version: 0.71
License: Freeware
Language: English
Official Website: http://partitionlogic.org.uk/
Download: Official Program Page (CD-Rom/USB/Floppy Images)
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: Partition Logic is a free hard disk partitioning and data management tool. It can create, delete, erase, format, defragment, resize, copy, and move partitions and modify their attributes. It can copy entire hard disks from one to another. It boots from a CD or floppy disk and runs as a standalone system, independent of your regular operating system. It is intended to become a free alternative to such commercial programs as Partition Magic, Drive Image, and Norton Ghost...
Note that Partition logic has the following limitations:
- Does not work with some SATA hard disks
- No hardware support for non-USB SCSI hard disks
- No support for Sun or BSD disk labels.
- Cannot format partitions as NTFS or EXT3.
- Cannot resize FAT or EXT filesystems.
- No hardware support for serial mice
- No hardware support for PCMCIA
Name: PerfectDisk (Home/Business Editions)
Version: 12.5
License: Shareware
Language: English
Official Website: http://www.raxco.com/
Download: Home: Official Download Page (all versions)*
Business: Official Download Page (all versions)*
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: PerfectDisk provides the best, most complete disk defragmentation and optimization solution - with true hands-off automatic optimization techniques to continuously keep your computer running like new.
Key Benefits and Highlights:
- Fragmentation Prevention with OptiWrite - PerfectDisk's new OptiWrite technology prevents most fragmentation on your drive before it occurs, which prevents your system from slowing down.
- Intelligent Disk Optimization - SMARTPlacement is a patented optimization strategy that organizes files according to usage patterns and consolidates free space. This results in faster defrag passes, quicker boot times, slower refragmentation, reduced resource consumption and improved overall performance
- Auto-Optimization for complete unattended optimization - PerfectDisk's exclusive StealthPatrol tab is used to set automatic fragmentaion prevention and optimize your system when it isn't busy. Auto-optimization provides the flexibility to not run during certain periods of the day or when a user-defined application is running.
- Advanced Boot Time Defrag - PerfectDisk's advanced boot time defrag capability is able to defragment files that otherwise would remain fragmented such as the Windows pagefile.sys or the file system's MFT (Master File Table) and provides the best boot time defrag operation.
- Faster Start-Up - Experience faster system start-up times with our proprietary boot file optimization.
Home: Professional Edition | Premium Edition | Server Edition
Business: Professional Edition | Pro Network Edition | Server Edition | Exchange Edition |
Enterprise Console Edition
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Name: Vopt
Version: 9.21
License: Shareware
Language: English
Official Website: http://www.vopt.com/
Download: Official Program Page | Official HTTP Download (3.5MB)
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: Vopt lets you quickly defrag and pack your disk drives to maintain optimal performance and reliability. Vopt's speed makes daily defragging both practical and desirable. Vopt also provides tools to assist you in maintaining your system, reclaiming wasted disk space, and protecting your privacy.
This program is designed as a tool for:
- Defrag drive - Defragments the currently selected drive.
- Analyze drive - Determines and displays what each cluster of the drive is being used for
- Cleanup - Lets you view and delete cookies, internet history, temporary files, the USN Journal, etc. Cookies you don't want deleted ("Subscriptions") can be entered so that you don't lose access to your favorite web sites when using cleanup.