Entered CNET Catalog: 01/03/2007
SKU: 3072
Manufacturer: Acronis
Manufacturer description
You've come to rely on your servers for providing mission-critical applications for your customers, employees, and partners to conduct business. Because these resources need to be available 24 X 7 you need reliable management tools that provide better data protection, minimize server downtime and allow you to perform needed maintenance ensuring maximum server performance. Acronis Disk Director Server 10.0 provides you with powerful partition and hard disk management utilities to ensure your servers are running efficiently. The product builds upon the award-winning technologies from Acronis to manage partitions and reformat hard disk drives. Acronis has a long history of supporting all Microsoft operating systems and now continues that tradition with full Microsoft Vista Support for Acronis Disk Director Server 10.0!User opinions
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User Rating: 
4/10
Recovery can't find SATA Drives
Pros: Good, simple interface
Cons: Won't find SATA drives in modern HP & Dell systems
Review:
struggling with Disk Director and True Image on new computers (especially any with SATA drives), when booting from the Recovery Disk, I've found a solution to this problem.
Note: The problem does NOT occur when you're using these products under Windows. But, when you have to recover a corrupted system, you HAVE to use the "Recovery Media," and that virtually always fails with new HP and Dell systems released over the past year.
The solution is simple: BUY PARAGON's SOLUTION. I just tested (and then bought) products from http://www.paragon-software.com/ and, lo-and-behold, THEY WORK!
Acronis has been my favorite company for these products for three years, and I've spent more than $10,000 on Acronis products for me and for my clients. For the past year, Acronis has been failing to upgrade or repair their products, always insisting that their customers have to do all their debugging for them with complex, time-consuming procedures. And, recently, Acronis sent out marketing questionnaires about new products they plan to offer. But, I won't buy more Acronis product until this company SUPPORTS AND PROVIDES UPDATES TO LONG-OBSOLETE PRODUCTS.
--cao
Note: The problem does NOT occur when you're using these products under Windows. But, when you have to recover a corrupted system, you HAVE to use the "Recovery Media," and that virtually always fails with new HP and Dell systems released over the past year.
The solution is simple: BUY PARAGON's SOLUTION. I just tested (and then bought) products from http://www.paragon-software.com/ and, lo-and-behold, THEY WORK!
Acronis has been my favorite company for these products for three years, and I've spent more than $10,000 on Acronis products for me and for my clients. For the past year, Acronis has been failing to upgrade or repair their products, always insisting that their customers have to do all their debugging for them with complex, time-consuming procedures. And, recently, Acronis sent out marketing questionnaires about new products they plan to offer. But, I won't buy more Acronis product until this company SUPPORTS AND PROVIDES UPDATES TO LONG-OBSOLETE PRODUCTS.
--cao
User Rating: 
9/10
partition magic
Pros: alot of partitioning options
Cons: it cost money
Review:
great utility that lets you resize delete create partitions on your harddrive. works for internal or external drive. a nice feature i like is it lets you steal space from partitions around the selected partition. come with bootdisk so you can use this utility even if your os is corrupted.
User Rating: 
8/10
Good but not a complete utility
Pros: Simple, small, works off the boot CD, and restores deleted partitions
Cons: Does not have all the functions that the name suggests
Review:
If I remember, this utility cannot resize or format partitions. Partition magic is the utility of choice for all such functions. Acronis recovered one (containing family videos) of the two partitions that were deleted by mistake. This alone made it worth its price.
In contrast, Patition magic (version 8) reported no recoverable partitions.
In contrast, Patition magic (version 8) reported no recoverable partitions.
Updated
This product is not listed at Cnet yet, so I am adding my comment here. I give it a perfect 10 as I did for Version 8. Version 10 is only required for SATA drives. It cannot read images created with Version 8. So do not throw away the Version 8 disk. I use this program only from the boot CD. I have never encountered any problems this way.
This product is not listed at Cnet yet, so I am adding my comment here. I give it a perfect 10 as I did for Version 8. Version 10 is only required for SATA drives. It cannot read images created with Version 8. So do not throw away the Version 8 disk. I use this program only from the boot CD. I have never encountered any problems this way.
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