Comments on: Disappointed about diskeeper

By: Folland

Folland — Tue, 04 May 2010 23:09:29 +0000

Fantastic post, can I link to this from my blog?

thanks…

By: alkampfer

alkampfer — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:44:34 +0000

I’ve rebuild the drive, but the system won’t boot, then recover the system and everything was ok.

Now I use a single 10k disk for my principal system, and a RAID0 with two 10k disk for secondary disk. I use Windows7 and it defrag both volumes at scheduled time, never had a problem in a couple of week.

I installed Diskeeper in my laptop, since I own a valid license and it goes very well.

Alk.

By: stephen

stephen — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:41:32 +0000

alkampfer, i had a similar experience. And until i started reading some posts on RAID failures from using Diskeeper, i was thinking that it was just a coincidence.

did you replace the degraded hd? or did you just rebuild your RAID and go on?

By: Ruchi

Ruchi — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:21:22 +0000

Diskeeper Corporation has created a vital component previously missing from virtualized environment productivity. V-locity with InvisiTasking® installs on both the Windows Server® 2008 OS that is running the virtual host and all Windows® virtual machines (guests). Each component optimizes its respective Windows OS and performs defragmentation of files and consolidation of free space. This minimizes unnecessary I/O passed from the OS to the disk subsystem and aligns data on the drives for optimal access.

With the proprietary InvisiTasking, V-locity will automatically and invisibly defragment files and consolidate free space on every Windows system it is installed, eliminating unnecessary and excess I/O to restore system performance and reliability for the entire platform. At the same time, V-locity provides a tool to analyze and compact wasted virtual disk space.

For additional information, contact V-locity@diskeeper.com.

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By: alkampfer

alkampfer — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:29:20 +0000

The bad thing is that the disk was ok before running diskeeper, after rebuilding the array everything went ok again.

alk.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:57:25 +0000

It is more likely that the failing disk in your RAID array caused your system slowness.

By: alkampfer

alkampfer — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:39:08 +0000

You are right, I used perfect disk in the past and it was really great, I think I’ll move again to Perfect Disk in the near future.

alk.

By: Joe Abusamra

Joe Abusamra — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:41:53 +0000

An alternative you might want to look at is PerfectDisk, which provides scheduling (as well as continuous defrag), which many find useful in virtual environment to avoid resource contention. PerfectDisk also completely consolidates free space.

And there is even a PerfectDisk for VMware, which handles both the guests and host, and also automates the VMware Shrink utility to recapture space.

Joe Abusamra
http://www.perfectdisk,com
www,perfectdiskblog.com