Hiren’s BootCD 9.3

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Partition Magic Pro 8.05

Best software to partition hard drive

Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0.554

Popular disk management functions in a single suite

Paragon Partition Manager 7.0.1274

Universal tool for partitions

Partition Commander 9.01

The safe way to partition your hard drive,with undo feature

Ranish Partition Manager 2.44

a boot manager and hard disk partitioner.

The Partition Resizer 1.3.4

move and resize your partitions in one step and more.

Smart Fdisk 2.05

a simple harddisk partition manager

SPecial Fdisk 2000.03t

SPFDISK a partition tool.

eXtended Fdisk 0.9.3

XFDISK allows easy partition creation and edition
Hiren’s BootCD 9.3

GDisk 1.1.1

Complete replacement for the DOS FDISK utility and more.

Super Fdisk 1.0

Create, delete, format partitions drives without destroying data.
Disk Clone Tools
ImageCenter 5.6 (Drive Image 2002)

Best software to clone hard drive

Norton Ghost 11.0.1

Similar to Drive Image (with usb/scsi support)

Acronis True Image 8.1.945
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AMD Phenom vs. Athlon Core Shootout

Is Phenom Really Faster Than Athlon?

AMD removed the core count suffix X2, X3 and X4 from the logo and changed its nomenclature instead: 9000 models have four cores, while the upcoming triple cores have a 7000 model number.

AMD has had a difficult year. Not only did the long anticipated Phenom processor arrive at considerably lower clock speeds than expected (2.3 GHz instead of 3 GHz), but the current stepping of the so-called Barcelona core is afflicted with a nasty bug. While there are workarounds for it, only an updated stepping will allow AMD to resume quad core processor deliveries in the server segment. The fact that the quad core doesn’t deliver sufficient performance to attack Intel at the high-end doesn’t help either. As a consequence of these problems, AMD has had to readjust its product strategy, and position the processor together with the new Spider platform in the mainstream. Despite all of the issues, though, Phenom isn’t as bad as it may appear, as our comparison between the Phenom and the Athlon 64 X2 shows.

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The hard disk

The hard disk’s role is to store data permanently. It uses a set of disks called platters which store data on tracks. The data is written on all platters (usually 3) on cylinders (3 tracks, one on each platter) at the same time. This greatly improves read/write times. The operation is accomplished by using 3 writing heads and 3 reading heads that constantly move on a ray of the disks to read/write the data. All disk surface is covered by these heads because of their spinning. The hard disk access speed and read/write performance is pretty much related to their speed. Typically a fast hard disk uses a motor that spins the platters at more than 7200 rotations per minute.

Also there are many technologies available like ATA100, ATA133 and the SATA which are the fastest available. (more…)

What is PATA - SATA - NCQ ?

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Next-generation Serial ATA products promise to double hard drive interface performance from 1.5 to 3 gigabits per second
(Gbits/sec) and possibly beyond,providing a ten-year performance roadmap for OEMs and channel system builders.But is SATA
3Gb/s technology necessary across both the host and drive interface to deliver maximum data throughput for today’s storage
environments?
For host interfaces,the 3-Gbits/sec speed is necessary to meet the increasing performance requirements for bandwidth-intensive
applications,such as IT and corporate data centers,health care service,manufacturing and financial real-time systems,and nearline
data storage,as the amount of data that companies need to store,manage and keep readily available continues to increase.Serial
ATA can help meet rising data throughput needs by doubling the speed of the data delivery path,enabling the transfer of more than
1.5 gigabits of data in aggregated arrays and other multi-drive configurations.From the host side,SATA 3Gb/s essentially provides a
larger pipe to move more data.
Benchmark tests today show that in multi-drive configurations,SATA 1.5Gb/s disc drives can reach data transfer speeds of greater
than 200 megabytes per second (Mbytes/sec) when their individual maximum data transfer rates are aggregated into a single pipe
to the PC or server host.Keep in mind the individual drives may be comparatively lower,but the array performance is limited only by
the number of drives in the array and by the speed of the underlying host interface rate.For the best performance,large numbers of
drives can be connected and their data aggregated into a larger host interface.
Multiple drives connect to a SATA 1.5Gb/s or SATA 3Gb/s Port Multiplier.The collective drive data rate with the SATA 3Gb/s Port
Multiplier equals 240 Mbytes/sec into the host controller.By contrast,the collective drive data rate in a single-drive environment
would be around 60 Mbytes/sec.