Acronis Disk Director 10 Server is the powerful solution for partitioning your servers and managing their hard disks. It optimizes server hard disks to ensure trouble-free operation and minimizes the risk of data loss in the event of system crashes.
Pros: Acronis Disk Director 10 Server manages hard disks on servers and their partitions. You are able to keep the disks optimized and ensure trouble free operation. This application provides you with capabilities to split and merge partitions without losing/corrupting existing data. You can even create different file systems on existing partitions. The product gives you a partition manager, partition recovery and disk editor modules. In conjunction with a data back up and recovery product this provides you optimum operational capabilities in a 24x7 server operations. Partition manager can operate on dual modes. One that is fully automatic that lets beginners operate safely. Experienced users can manipulate detailed settings in the manual mode. FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Linux Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, and Linux SWAP partitions are supported. It makes conversion between partition types are possible. Special sector-by-sector support for copying and moving partitions of any other type helps with any other kind of partitions.. Logs help with troubleshooting. Preview feature lets you make sure intended partitioning is right before applying the same. Disks larger than 180 GB are supported.
The disk editor provides you with means to look closely at low level data. Solving problems like back up, copying, and/or recovery important data areas of a hard drive; search and/or extraction of information that was removed by accident or lost due to different soft- and hardware failures or virus attack are only possible with such low level edit support. It allows you to edit content of a hard disk and its partitions and supports IDE, SCSI, USB, IEEE 1394 hard disk drives. You are able to work from bootable media if a PC fails to boot and allows you to view hard disk partition contents in a hexadecimal mode. Partition recovery module lets you recover deleted partitions even if the OS has failed by working from bootable media.
Cons: Through understanding of partitions and file systems is required to handle manipulation of partitions on mission critical servers.
Overall: This is easily a 4 star product with its set of features and ease of use.
