New Case Studies Added to Paragon Software’s Library

Vacation time is always a great time to get desktops refreshed in the education environment. If you are planning deployments and refreshes this spring, be sure to check out Technical High School Saves Time with Paragon Software’s Deployment Manager (Deployment Manager - Technical High School) in our Case Study Library.

We’ve also added a new case study spotlighting Paragon’s Hard Disk Manager. Colorado’s Fire Police Pension Association depends on Paragon Deployment Manager image-based backup for reliability and ease of use to safeguard its critical financial records: The Fire Police Pension Association of Colorado Chooses Paragon Software Hard Disk Manager for Reliable, Quick Image-based Disaster Recovery Software (Hard Disk Manager – Financial – FPPA of CO).

Disk Imaging Offers the Best Backup Software Solution on the Market

By Tom Fedro

As president of Paragon Software Group, I believe that the best backup software is disk imaging. At www.paragon-downloads.com , you can test drive our disk imaging software to see if it meets your needs.

In addition to publishing the best backup software solution, at Paragon we go above and beyond with our technical services support — located here in the U.S.A. We run a tight ship with only the highest quality staff. Whether you are a value-added reseller (VAR), a systems integrator or an OEM looking to bundle disk imaging into your hardware, you will be hard pressed to find a more responsive team.

For example, recently we worked with one of NASA’s prime contractors to develop a custom-coded disk imaging software solution for the International Space Station. After evaluating our competitors in the market, they found that Paragon came closest to meeting their requirements. To finalize the deal, we went the extra mile by developing a restore script that automated the system restore process utilizing a USB-bootable flash drive with the click of a button.

One of our most popular disk imaging software products is Paragon Drive Backup Server. This easy-to-use software protects your data, minimizes downtime, and lowers data storage and management costs while ensuring business continuity through instant system recovery. Live server migration technology (P2V, V2P, V2V and P2P) makes conversions easy and allows you to get the most from your virtual environments.  It is a powerful and flexible solution to add to your disaster recovery strategy.

We offer multiple ways to backup a server with a complete line of disaster recovery, disk imaging products that help you secure and manage your data and optimize storage management for PCs, servers and networks. Streamlining disk image backup, virtualization, migration and deployment processes through central management and automation frees up IT personnel and boosts productivity and ROI on your IT investments.

Drive Copy 10 Giveaway

MakeUseOf.com is giving away 100 licenses of Drive Copy 10 Personal. Drive Copy is a great utility for upgrading hard drives, creating a single image of your computer for recovery if the PC crashes, and many others. If you would like to grab a free copy, head over to MakeUseOf.com and read the post.

Added Bonus:

They are giving away our personal version that will not work on servers.

If you would like a chance to win a copy of Drive Copy 10 Server, Go HERE.

A Major Problem With Solid State Drives (SSD)

The Misaligned partitions problem is even more important for SSD drives than for traditional hard disk drives. Many modern SSD drives have an internal memory page size 4096 bytes or larger accordingly to 4K size, which are some analogue for 4K sectors. Thus all previously mentioned problems are the same for SSD partitions alignment.

This issue of SSD misalignment was highlighted in a recent OCZ forum where it was stated:

Take note here, partition alignment with SSD is the most important factor you have to deal with when installing your new drive. Tuning the drive’s alignment can add 30 to 50% more performance so failing to apply the correct alignment could ruin the experience you have with the drive.

There is one crucial SSD issue besides file system speed decline (which is not so noticeable in comparison to traditional HDD). It is the SSD memory cells degradation after some amount of write operations. So if partitions on SSD are misaligned beside downgraded system speed you put your solid state drive in danger. After partitions alignment, PAT eliminates all redundant read/write operations and thus provides speed boost and grants the SSD a longer lifetime.

Is SSD alignment an issue for you? Find out here. Read the rest of Why Misaligned Partitions are a Problem for SSD.