Reviews of DiskState

1. 
   Zoroaster

   Reviewing 3.01 (Nov 17, 2005)

   Far too expensive.
   For $44.95 less, Drive Manager (http://www.alexnolan.net/software/driveman.htm) suits me better.
2. 
   httpd.confused

   Reviewing 3.00 (Oct 27, 2005)

   Raxco is not a company that likes to take chances. While their software is generally very reliable and straightforward, innovation is not their strong point by any stretch of the word. (I think my review of PerfectDisk 7 proves my point pretty well.)
3. 
   CyberHobo

   Reviewing 3.00 (Oct 27, 2005)

   Per http:confused, DITTO!
   
   Still over priced. I suggested the ability to resize the main GUI and at least add a secure file delete function. Raxco responded with, "We have many things in store for DiskState." This was two years ago. Well, the only thing that changed was a different GUI background color (which is an improvement). Common, do something with this utility, it still has potential.
4. 
   httpd.confused

   Reviewing 2.86 (Sep 30, 2004)

   A decent application which, as others have pointed out, is blatantly overpriced. I consider it overpriced by about 300%, meaning it should cost around $20. (Wait--what's this? They've reduced the price to $45? Well, it's still ridiculous.)
   
   Fortunately for me, though, I bought DiskState for $10 years ago, and continue to get free updates to this day. =)
   
   DiskState does many things, but most of them it doesn't do very well.
   
   For example, the drive listing it shows doesn't refresh dynamically. So, for example, if you have drives that appear or disappear dynamically (such as if you use file-hosted volumes), DiskState needs to be restarted to show the changes. For an application of this price to have such a limitation is utterly ridiculous.
   
   The main window also isn't resizable, which is a giant software pet peeve of mine. The fixed size is so senseless that even moderately-long volume names don't fit--and if they don't fit, they're not just cut off, they're omitted entirely.
   
   The Add/Remove function is DiskState is another good example; it's there, it's fast and it works OK, but it's not especially useful.
   
   The one thing that I feel DiskState does best is duplicate file finding. Even if you use the MD5 method to find dupes, DiskState works very quickly, and provides powerful (but often confusing) options to remove unwanted files. But even this function of DiskState doesn't provide many options, and falls behind dedicated dupe-finding utilities.
5. 
   arman68

   Reviewing 2.85 (Nov 19, 2003)

   Again a case of an overinflated price. It's a shame as I find it is the best program in its category. FYI the last version that had no limitation and nag screen was 1.14c. The recent version seem to have more and more useless bloat added to them - probably an attempt to justofy their price.

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