Had Apple not crippled Disk Utility to the point of making it useless in El Capitan/Sierra/High Sierra I'd stick with Disk Utility. What is there in HDM are file integrity checks (something like Disk First Aid and the now missing Fix Permissions routine). RAID support seems very thin, the incremental backups are not compatible with anything Apple (proprietary Paragon format!). HDM, is a strange bird and less immediately useful than you'd think despite it's greater capability than Apple's Disk Utility. Secure wiping - 10 military and governmental data wiping standards as well as support of the 'SSD Trim' function to safely erase all on-disk data or only remnants of deleted files on traditional rotating platter disks or solid state drives.Boot Camp management - Anything you may need to effectively manage your Boot Camp Windows: backup, restore, repartitioning as well as boot correction capabilities.Bootable recovery media - Create a bootable USB-flash stick or external storage to restore OS X system volumes or accomplish drive partitioning when OS X fails to start up or SIP doesn’t allow to perform the operations.Fast restore at a granular level allows to restore only needed files through the Finder by mounting backup image. Backup to VMDK opens up an easy migration to a virtual environment of VMware Fusion. Regular data protection - Sector-level data processing through the Paragon's Snapshot enables to do live imaging of the entire Mac including OS, applications with great perfomance.You need two or more competitive utilities to have a similar set of functions. Complete hard disk management - Covers all aspects of a Mac computer life cycle, beginning from drive partitioning and regular backup to system migration, disaster recovery and secure utilization of an outdated storage.Powerful backup and flexible recovery functions, everything you need for perfect partitioning, reliable data-wiping algorithms, and much more. Paragon Hard Disk Manager is the ideal system- and data-management solution for Mac.

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