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Paragon Hard Disk Manager

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What is Paragon Hard Disk Manager?

Paragon Software headquartered in Irvine offers Paragon Hard Disk Manager, a storage management solution for physical and virtual drives, and disaster recovery framework solution for businesses of all sizes.

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Dependable data backups made easy

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Dr Andy TehView profile
Founder, Owner, and Principal in Professional Services at Teh & Associates (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Although Paragon Hard Disk Manager offers several different functionalities, we use the software primarily for creating backups of our data.

Paragon Hard Disk Manager enables easy and reliable automated regular incremental backups to drives in our Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. The ease-of-use and reliability of this software facilitates execution of our backup strategy.

Pros

  • High reliability. With Paragon Hard Disk Manager, we are confident regular backup jobs are executed as configured.
  • Ease of use. The graphical user interface is logical and polished.
  • Detailed and informative user manual.

Cons

  • Paragon Hard Disk Manager meets all our requirements for a straightforward and dependable backup software package. I cannot think of any significant areas for improvement at this time.
  • One small source of annoyance was the use of some abbreviations used in the user manual (unfamiliar to us) when we first read it, e.g., WAIK, ADK, WinPE. However, we resolved this issue with a simple Google search.
  • One way of dealing with the above abbreviations is to include hyperlinks in the user manual so that persons unfamiliar with these abbreviations may be taken to a glossary.

Most Important Features

  • Intuitive user interface that is streamlined yet effective
  • Reliable data backups to our network attached storage (NAS) device
  • Clear and informative user manual

Return on Investment

  • Paragon Hard Disk Manager makes creating regular incremental backups straightforward. The ease of configuring the software to automatically perform backup jobs increases the likelihood that we will follow through with our backup strategy, thus protecting our data.
  • Any loss of important data would potentially be catastrophic to our business. Paragon Hard Disk Manager minimizes this risk.
  • The software's ease of use also means we can focus more on our core business activities (and spend less time and effort on data backups).

Alternatives Considered

Google Backup and Sync (discontinued)

Other Software Used

Evernote, Google Workspace, WordPress, Notepad++, FileZilla, Ditto

Simple and low cost data storage platform with powerful security layer

Courtney PlaizierView profile
Software Engineer in Information Technology at Varonis (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This storage platform helps us to store data on desktops without any interruptions. It has installed a partition manager that customizes the storage units into the user required sizes. The included backup plan and recovery options have enhanced reliable stability in data security giving our team members more time of focusing on other projects without fear. It can easily send email notifications to the user when unauthorized users access information.

Pros

  • Partitioning storage disks into manageable storage spaces.
  • Data backup and recovery options.

Cons

  • It can be upgraded to offer cloud storage services.
  • The performance of the current features is stable.

Most Important Features

  • The ability to compress files.
  • password protection feature.

Return on Investment

  • It has contributed to positive Return on Investment.
  • It has catered for all our organization storage needs.

Alternatives Considered

Google Cloud Storage

Other Software Used

Google Cloud Storage, Automation Centre Tracker Suite

Paragan will save your behind on failing drives!

Incentivized
James BuchholzView profile
Service Manager in Information Technology at ImageNet Consulting (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • When you have a hard drive that is physically failing with CHKDSK errors, it will often somehow still clone it and make it work on the new system.
  • It can take a computer's operating system installation and make it work on dissimilar hardware.

Cons

  • If it's installed to a CD it takes forever to boot to it. Better off a USB stick.
  • It takes a very long time to clone a failing drive (understandably) and you have no idea how long it will take. Estimated times are not accurate.

Return on Investment

  • It has had a positive impact on our business objectives because it has gotten us out of some difficult situations where drives would not clone otherwise. It saves a reload of a computer, therefore a lot of time saved.

Alternatives Considered

Acronis True Image

Excellent program for manipulating partitions

Incentivized
Tom SchmidtView profile
IT Manager in Information Technology at Almco Steel Products (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Clone partitions or entire drives.
  • Change drive from standard to dynamic or dynamic to standard.

Cons

  • Sometimes it does not estimate time to completion properly.

Return on Investment

  • Cut time to transition from standard to SSD by over 60%.
  • Cut time to clone from one system to another.

Alternatives Considered

Acronis True Image

Quick and Simple Hard Drive Management

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We work on a lot of different systems - laptops and desktop - with different types of operating systems and physical hard drive types. Paragon Hard Disk Manager made the process of clearing data and setting new partitions on these systems a dream! A great deal of time was saved through using this software.

Pros

  • Disk wiping - quick and effective solution for simple wipe processes
  • Partitioning - the software allowed us to work more closely with the partitions in a GUI environment
  • Data Migrations - Paragon Hard Disk Manager made this process of data migration very easy and convenient

Cons

  • Hard to complain about Paragon Hard Disk Manager. The system works easily with a simple to use interface.

Most Important Features

  • Disk wiping
  • Partition Management
  • Data Migration

Return on Investment

  • Paragon Hard Disk Manager has provided savings to us through time saved during processes relating to data migration and wiping
  • The wiping function allows us to respond to requests to ensure drives are sanitized.
  • Migration of data used to be a laborious task, but Paragon Hard Disk Manager has helped save us time by speeding up the process

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 Business Premium, CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint Protection, Webroot Endpoint Protection, SkyKick, BitTitan MigrationWiz, Greentree ERP, Adobe Acrobat DC, Adobe Creative Cloud Express, OneDrive