In a time of increasing software bloat is there any talk of a small, efficient application that goes about its business without fanfare or distraction.
Drive Power Manager weighs at only 1.5 MB installed completely and has a single function: to provide component access to hard drives and optical storage devices, enables highly granular control of use, performance, standby and noise power settings. The interface is simplicity, with all the features available through a single window per unit. Drive Power Manager applies your changes immediately, with no restart is required.
Laptop users are trying to always extend battery life, and it is here that the Drive Power Manager makes his biggest impact, such as hard disks and optical drives can represent significant power drain. With the power of disk usage properly leashed, useful improvements in uptime a reality. Standard battery systems can address some of these issues, but often falls short in practice, compromising usability.
Because the drive Power Manager allows discrete settings for each device functions, is to find a sweet spot to meet individual usage patterns at all. Of particular note are welcome possibility of Cap peak RPM and silent optical drives, virulent problems with laptops, where a spinning DVD can make an entire system vibrates like a coin operated massage Chair.
Drive Power Manager also contain a number of enhancement options speed, but these have a more modest effect on system performance. Both real world usage scenarios and synthetic benchmarks show any objective advantage but subjective impression is another matter. With units of the standby and hibernation timeouts are reduced or eliminated, felt portable systems more responsive, avoiding annoying waiting time involved with the disks spin up or restore from hibernation modes. A compromise for this reduced battery life, but for users who spend much of their time plugged in at a desk, it is not a problem.
For all its tight coding and efficiency, there are some issues with the Drive Power Manager. Better hardware support would be welcome, because some older devices seem to register the correct but returns errors when changes to settings are tested. Check the target computer's compatibility with the fully functional, time-limited trial version to avoid potential problems in this area.
Addition of profile settings that automatically adjust to AC/battery consumption would extend benefits, instead of forcing the laptop users to perform manual adjustments each time they disconnect. Site support is also thin and could use a review. These are relatively minor issues, but given the overall utility of the package.
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