You can’t even schedule defrags to run unattended. There’s nothing here to compare with the options provided by, say, Auslogics Disk Defrag Professional 4. This is all fine, but a little basic by modern standards. And there are tools to defragment and compact your MFT. The Defrag tool offers a few basic options to optimise your file layout (you can decide where to place your folders, and sort files by size or modification time). Choose a drive, click Analyze, and a cluster map shows you its condition. The first of these, Total Defrag 12, is a separate application which looks and works much as you’d expect. It also has tools you’ll use on a regular basis, in particular the Defrag and Backup modules. Hard Disk Manager isn’t just about setting up your drive, of course. We’re far more concerned that a tool should have plenty of features, be configurable, reliable, easy to use, and support a wide range of hardware, and here Hard Disk Manager 12 Suite delivers great results across the board. Whether a partition resize operation takes 10 minutes or 12 isn’t something that ranks high on our list of priorities, though. In our tests speeds weren’t noticeably different to other tools, and in some situations they might actually take longer with Hard Disk Manager (when working with the system partition the program always requested a reboot, for instance). Paragon also claim their new partitioning engine is “the fastest currently available”, and that’s something we weren’t able to verify. Not something you’ll use often, but if you decide you’d like to, say, keep your data on a separate partition to your system and applications then the new wizard could save you a great deal of hassle. There are similar wizards to merge similar partitions together, or intelligently distribute free space amongst several volumes.Īnd a new addition in Hard Disk Manager 12 is the Split Partition Wizard, which can help you take a single partition, split it into two, and relocate any files and folders you choose to the new partition. But here, launch the Express Resize wizard and all you have to do is drag one slider to decide how the space should be distributed, and Hard Disk Manager 12 Suite does the rest. If you need to redistribute space from one partition to another, say, you might normally expect to have to manually shrink one partition before expanding another. The real value here, though, comes in Hard Disk Manager 12 Suite’s wizards, handy tools that help to simplify and speed up common tasks.
In which case clicking the Advanced Interface option will both give you access to many new features (hide/ unhide, convert file systems, change partition type, make a partition active/ inactive) as well as giving you more options elsewhere. The program does have many more partitioning functions, though, and if you’re sufficiently interested in these to buy Hard Disk Manager in the first place, then you’re probably not going to be content to make do with Express Mode’s limited selection. Choosing any of these will launch a well-designed wizard to walk you through the necessary steps. If you need to work with partitions, say, the first menu provides options to create, format, delete, resize and merge them. Hard Disk Manager 12 Suite opens with its Express interface, a straightforward front-end menu that makes it easy to access the program’s core functions. But how do these modules perform individually? We took a closer look.
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