Zentimo xStorage Manager 1.7.1.1224

Zentimo xStorage Manager 1.7.1.1224 | 7 MB

The Zentimo application was developed to be a powerful external drive manager. It saves time and extends user abilities on active work with flash-drives, portable drives, card readers and other gadgets. The program gives a highly customizable menu to manage external devices, displays what programs prevent stopping a device, speed ups your work with hotkeys, hides drives of empty card reader slots, allows to return a stopped devices back. Besides it lets you automaticaly run any programs on device connection\disconnection, speed test your drives, manage portable apps, has an enhanced drive letter management tool, integrates fully with TrueCrypt and much more.

Zentimo feature list:

Handy menu to control devices
This menu is aimed to do the most frequent tasks in a click and allows you to:
- See device drive size or empty space
- Rename a device
- Change a device image
- Hide a device from the menu
- Scan for hardware changes
- Stop all devices at once

Drive letter management
- Hiding drives of empty card reader slots
- Fixing a drive letter to a specific device
- Preventing assigning of specific drive letters to hot-plug devices
- You can change a drive letter or volume label quickly

Program autorun feature
- Assign programs to be launched on:
- After device connection
- Before device disconnection
- After device stopping
- After device removal
- Global or per-device settings
- Predefined templates to setup your antivirus, a file manager or something else

Portable application quick launcher
- Just a small menu where you can add programs\files\folders from your portable drive for quick launch

Real Safe Device Removal
- Display of processes preventing the device from being stopped...
... and the ability to kill these processes ...
... or just to unlock them from the device
- Hotkeys to stop a device or call the menu
- Stopping of all devices at once
- Ability to stop SATA drives
- Returning just stopped device back

Honest Drive Speed Test
Most other drive speed testers measure only the read\write speed of large files, displaying a theoretical drive speed. This is not related to real-life speed as we often write plenty of small files to external drives.
Our investigations shows that some flash drives have worse performance than other ones on writing of small files however their top performance at writing large files are the same.
Zentimo measures the file read\write speeds of 3 different file sizes: small files (32 KB), medium files (3 MB) and large files (100 MB) and displays all those measurements as well as an average. The average speed calculated by Zentimo reflects your drives real performance more accurately than characteristics from the vendor's specification.

Zentimo 1.7 released! Windows 8 support.

Two months ago Microsoft released a new version of Windows. It doesn’t matter if we love it or not, but we have to support it. Therefore now Zentimo has passed compatibility tests with Windows 8, furthermore we have added a nice Metro UI-style skin, you can see it in the begin of the post. On Windows 8 it’s set by default, however you can choose it in the settings on other versions of Windows.

Fixing a drive letter to several removable drives

Per many requests we have added an ability to fix a drive letter not only to a one drive but to the several drives on the condition that you connect them at different times. This feature might be used for backup purposes.

When you connect two or more drives with the same fixed drive letter Zentimo handles this case and displays a dialog that allows you to choose a temporary drive letter for the drives that weren’t fixed to a letter.

Fixed drive letter sign in the menu

A small but useful improvement for those who use fixing drive letters feature. Now when a drive is fixed to a letter a small lock sign is displayed in the row of the drive.

• Another improvements and bug fixes
• Folder mount points are now displayed in a full size (not truncated)
• Card reader drives are displayed even when the option “Display storage device
• volumes” is disabled
• Card reader drives are displayed even when the option “Display storage device volumes” is disabled
• Skin scheme file now has usual web format of the colors
• Fixed: Verbose logging was enabled by default
• Fixed: Autorun programs called before changing drive letters (e.g. for fixed drive letters). This caused double calling of the autorun programs.
• Fixed: and some other minor bugs.