EZ-SCSI Deluxe Edition 5.0

by Adaptec

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00002S7VG
• Item model number: 1684800
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 24, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,482 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #36 in Software > Utilities > Memory Management
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

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

Product Description

Adaptec EZ-SCSI Deluxe v.5.0 - 1 User 1684800 PC Utilities

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Customer Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars COASTER MAKER, February 11, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: EZ-SCSI Deluxe Edition 5.0 (CD-ROM)

When I searched the Amazon site for Adaptec software, I was reacting to the abysmal performance of the CD writer that comes with the ver 7.01 Windows Media Player. I thought, why is the company displaying such a large ad to upgrade to the Deluxe product. I still have no clue. I own two other CD burning products, which unfortunately do not convert from Microsoft's WMA file format. Adaptec's software is horribly buggy. My error rate on over 30 CDs was about 35%. That's correct: one of three CD writes failed. The first couple of writes, I thought, might be the result of other software interfering. So, I closed ever single program under Windows 98SE except Explorer and Systray, and still obtained this awful success rate. I can only conclude that Adaptec thinks that we are a bunch of fools who think that paying them [price] for an ungrade will magically make their software perform where it was not capable before. As for support, read the review below and believe it.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 2 Thumbs Up, February 24, 2001

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Nat (Near Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: EZ-SCSI Deluxe Edition 5.0 (CD-ROM)

This is definatley aimed for business production, not personal use. It made my cd writer go much faster, but only when I copied many CD's. It was useful though.