Paragon Migrate OS to SSD

The Paragon Software Group company filled up in March, 2011 a product portfolio for Russian-speaking users with the Paragon Migrate OS to SSD utility which allows to transfer the Windows operating system to the latest SSD solid state drive and by that considerably to increase PC capacity. It is the product, the first in the market, which is considering features of loading of Windows and most facilitating process of migration of a system for users.

Use of SSD (solid state drive) of drives becomes one of world technology trends which captures more and more users in the different countries. According to the research IDC Outlook conducted in 2010, deliveries of solid-state disks (SSD) annually will grow for 14%. It is expected that by 2013 this type of drives will occupy 54% of the market of hard drives.

Such success of new drives is caused by the fact that SSD is the best of the solutions for high-performance transactions with data existing today in the market, in particular, for work of operating systems and support of work of the software. And the small sizes and low power consumption do SSD by the best disk storage modules for portable devices. Products of the line of SSD become cheaper and more available to users every year. Today for the western market it is already almost mass product.

Paragon Software Group recommends to use SSD solid state drives for the increase in speed of work of the operating system and applications requiring the frequent addressing data. Capacity of normal hard drives significantly lower and falls in connection with their physical deterioration over time. However this fate does not threaten solid state drives at which moving parts are replaced with special microchips a flash memory. This technology gives a considerable gain in access rate to data (reading/record) therefore if a system is installed on a SSD disk, it will work much quicker.

Because of the high cost of SSD disks disks of average and small volume are the most available to users. However volume is even usually enough small SSD disk for the operating system, whether it be Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7. The Paragon Migrate OS to SSD utility allows to make copying with reduction of the size of the system section, and also on the fly to exclude files from the copy for reduction of volume of the copied data.

Paragon Migrate OS to SSD provides fast and reliable migration of the operating system on a solid-state disk without reset, at the same time automatically aligning the target section for life extension of a SSD disk. The utility automatically determines the set copies of Windows, allows to select what of them the user wants to transfer to the solid state drive, and copies it on the specified disk.

Advantages of Migrate OS to SSD:

• the utility is created especially for migration of the operating system on disks of smaller volume;
• allows to exclude folders and files at migration of Windows that the amount of data which will be copied corresponded to SSD disk volume;
• supports any versions of Windows, from XP to 7;
• executes automatic alignment (partition alignment) of the target section;
• makes available to 100% of a free space of a new disk (should the marked area).

Paragon Migrate OS to SSD 4.0

Paragon Migrate OS to SSD 4.0 performs fast and safe migration of the Windows systems on devices of smaller volume without excess efforts from user side, if necessary automatically reducing the initial size of contents up to the volume of the drive on which data transfer is made. The tool provides automatic alignment of all sections in the course of migration if it is required. The latest version of product 4.0 completely supports work with Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 and has the new pleasant interface in Windows 8 style.

Among advantages of use of high-speed solid state drives (SSD) in comparison with normal hard drives users select high access rate to data, the speed of reading/record of files, resistance to blow in case of falling. Such devices are considered as ideal for storage of the operating system and separate applications. But migration of the software on other devices can cause a number of serious difficulties. In view of the high cost of SSD in the market, especially models with a high capacity, most of users give preference to drives with a smaller volume. There is a problem of movement of large volume of data from the existing hard drive on the solid state drive (SSD) of the smaller size. Migration 64 the bit Windows configured in the mode of loading of UEFI can cause certain difficulties also. The intuitive solution Migrate OS to SSD 4.0 of Paragon company as much as possible simplifies process of migration of Windows OS on a disk of smaller volume for one transaction: automatically reducing the volume of sections at the expense of not used space, the tool also gives to the user the chance to exclude from copying the selected files and folders at the insufficient capacity of a target disk. At migration automatic alignment of sections of the copied system is executed. And all this without additional reset of the computer! And with support of the latest UEFI/GPT configurations, this transaction guarantees lack of problems of loading of OS on the target device.

New features of Paragon Migrate OS to SSD 4.0:

• Full support of Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2.
• User-friendly interface in Windows 8 style.
• Migration of the 64-bit version of Windows on a GPT disk with the mode of loading of UEFI is possible both in Windows, and in the environment of WinPE recovery.

Key functions:

• Migration on disks of both bigger, and smaller volume.
• Support of any operating systems of Windows, starting with the version of XP and including Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2.
• Copying of sections without reset by means of Microsoft VSS.
• Automatic alignment of sections on a target disk.
• Automatic detection and copying of the office sections necessary for successful loading of Windows.
• Possibility of an exception of copying of the selected folders at the insufficient capacity of a target disk.
• Security accreditation of a system and data.

Paragon Migrate OS to SSD 4.0 is the cornerstone technology of the powerful solution for a comprehensive protection and control of hard drives of Paragon company - Hard Disk Manager 14 which is recently released on the Russian market the version of a product which includes set from more than 20 tools for reservation, recovery, migration, virtualization of data and also optimization and effective service of a disk.

Cost and availability: Paragon Migrate OS to SSD 4.0 is available at the special price of 273 rub (instead of 390 rub), in 2011 the cost of the Paragon Migrate OS to SSD utility was 490 rub.