Description:
The Small Computer Serial Interface (SCSI) standard remains one of the fastest, most efficient interfaces for hard drives, CD-R drives, and other equipment that needs a lot of bandwidth to function properly. If you've invested in a SCSI device (like a CD burner) and it didn't come with EZ-SCSI Deluxe 5.0, you'll likely want to pony up a little extra cash to get this excellent SCSI management software. It lets users squeeze maximum performance from their SCSI hardware and supplies enough advanced tools to keep SCSI experts happy. The CD-RW drive we tested the software with originally ran with the "lite" version of EZ-SCSI, and after installing this Deluxe version we were faced with a host of useful options. SCSI Explorer was there to tell us all about our attached SCSI devices, from their capacity to information about the SCSI adapter we were using. Using the included SCSIBench utility, we were able to see how fast all our SCSI components worked together, which was great for seeing if some of the tweaks we tried made any difference in overall speed. Of course, this software wouldn't be Deluxe without some new features, and there are more than we have space to discuss. The WebCheck-Up feature made it easy to keep our SCSI device drivers current by automatically looking for updates. The Drive Preparer handled partitioning chores on our SCSI hard drive with aplomb. Adaptec even threw in a copy of Easy-CD Creator Lite so CD-R and CD-RW users can start burning CDs right away. Combine all these features with EZ-SCSI's more familiar system backup and disk formatting tools, and you end up with a utility suite no SCSI user should be without. --T. Byrl Baker
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