Paragon: Hard Disk Manager 11 Professional ($100)

Paragon Software Group announces the Hard Disk Manager 11 Professional – an all-in-one software solution that unites all hard disk lifecycle maintenance and management tools to meet the needs of users of all levels seeking to safeguard data and take control of their hard disk drives.

The software performs all types of system migrations, drive partitioning, disk imaging and file system optimization, data sanitization and boot management, and is also open to Boot Camp users.

"Home office and day-to-day PC users are just as concerned about managing data and preventing loss as the high-volume business users," said Konstantin Komarov, CEO of Paragon Software Group. "Consumers trust Paragon Software to bring the most effective storage lifecycle management technologies to the market to help keep track of their ever-increasing amounts of data and protect the digital information they value. For that reason, we’ve developed the most comprehensive solution for data management of hard disk drives, with operations that range from basic to sophisticated, to effectively ensure the safety of everyone’s important data assets."

Features:

• Empowered data safety and disaster recovery tools for both physical and virtual Windows environments.
• All type of migration operations for physical and virtual environments: Full spectrum of virtual and physical migration operations: P2V, P2V Restore, V2P, V2V, P2P and Migrate OS to SSD to move any Windows OS since XP from a regular hard disk to a fast SSD (Solid State Drive) even of a smaller capacity. In addition, Paragon Connect VD technology, which works with virtual disks as if they were physical, is now included.New Automatic partition alignment for computer performance optimization.
• Full set of Partition Management operations.
• Updated wiping technologies can efficiently dispose data on any HDD, SSD, flash-drives and laptops.
• Support of latest technologies – AFD (Advanced Format Drive) ready.
• USB 3.0 ready.
• Conversion of basic MBR to basic GPT disks; support of modern virtual machines.
• WinPE 3.0 based bootable environment.

The software is available for $99.95.