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Is it a pain for you to constantly switch out your CDs or DVDs? Do you need the information from your CDs/DVDs, but would prefer to have a safe archive rather than the original copy? Does it annoy you, every time you work with a notebook PC, how high the power consumption is for the CD/DVD drives? Would you be just plain happier if you could get better performance out of the CD/DVD drives in your computer?
SimDisc can install up to 63 (virtual) drives on your PC, which should generally be enough to keep all of the CD/DVD data you might want close at hand. Furthermore, SimDisc can itself create exact copies, or images, of your CDs and DVDs and store them on the hard drive, which means you can safely store away the originals with no muss, no fuss. After that, a single click puts the CD/DVD (image) of your choice in the virtual drive!
Of course, SimDisc works just as well over a network! It doesn't matter whether the CD/DVD image is on your machine or any other on the network, if you can access it then SimDisc can put it in the (virtual) drive of your PC all the same.
SimDisc is not only fast, but also a power saver. The performance of a computer's hard drive is simply better than that of a physical CD or DVD drive, and at the same time the physical power demanded by that of a hard drive is significantly less than its optical counterpart.

Key features of SimDisc:

• SimDisc can install up to 63 virtual drives in Windows NT/2000/XP (in Windows 9x/ME the maximum number of drives hinges on the number of available drive letters still left on the machine after any real, physical drives have been installed, which on the most standard computer configurations is 23)

• Full Featured Network Support: All of the virtual drives can be allowed free-range use across the local network, in both directions. A fitting example of SimDisc network capabilities is to create a CD-ROM server, a task that is perfectly possible with very little effort.

• SimDisc supports nearly every Disc format, of course including Video and Audio CDs.

• SimDisc extends the battery life of your notebooks, because optical drives require a lot of energy, while hard drives require very little in comparison. Simply convert your most needed CD/DVD into images on the hard disk to add hours of life to your notebook; carry a second battery instead of an optical drive and your notebook will soar to previously undreamt of heights, all without the use of pesky electrical outlets!

• Create safe backups of your most important CD and DVD originals, and then store them away in a safe location, all the while working instead with the virtual discs.

• Never play "Disc Jockey" again! The constant swapping of CDs is now a thing of the past! With SimDisc it takes but a click of the mouse!

• Virtual Drives are faster than real optical drives - That means no more loading (and thereby waiting) time or jerky video playback.

System Requirements: 

• 256 MB RAM

• Pentium compatible CPU

• Mouse

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