Well ,
who owns a Maxtor HD, which owns requirements for these utilities , can check out these :

AMSET

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Acoustic Management adjusts the speed of the head seeks, reducing the ambient sound level during normal operation. This does not affect sound levels for power on operations. Drive performance can be affected when Acoustic Management is enabled.

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MAXBoost

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>MaxBoost is a performance-boosting utility for your Maxtor ATA or SATA hard drive. By intelligently caching data in RAM before it is written to and read from the drive, MaxBoost can optimize the effective storage speed of your system.
MaxBoost's intelligent caching is performed by a filter driver for Windows 2000 or XP. You can control MaxBoost via a standalone application (MaxBoost Utility) and a system tray icon. The MaxBoost Utility allows you to select drives to use with MaxBoost, configure advanced settings, and monitor the performance of your drives. The system tray icon allows you to enable and disable the MaxBoost driver.
While the MaxBoost Utility does include basic performance monitoring, the best way to measure the performance improvement provided by MaxBoost is to run the Business and High-End Disk benchmarks in the WinBench 99 test suite. WinBench utilizes the access patterns of applications such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Premiere to provide an accurate, real-world measure of disk performance. WinBench 99 is available for download from http://www.etestinglabs.com/benchmarks/win...ch/winbench.asp.