All Things PerfectDisk – and Defrag - Windows 7 defrag -- real world, real guy

Here’s a little something on defragmenting with Windows 7 from a single user perspective. Greg Smith, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is a full-time software engineer, and also is a part time audio engineer. He wrote the following to me:

“I mainly use my PC for software development and productivity, but occasionally I use it for live recordings of small concerts around the area.

"The computer is a self-built Intel Q9400 system with 4 GB RAM. There are two hard drives installed – a Western Digital 320 GB drive as my system drive, and a Western Digital 640 GB drive for storage. The system drive is partitioned for dual-booting. The outermost partition (200 GB) is my software development partition, which is running Windows 7. The innermost partition (100 GB) is my recording partition, which is running a stripped-down version of Vista x64. The 640 GB storage drive is partitioned as one large partition.

"Since I use my Windows 7 installation 99% of the time, that’s the Windows installation on which PerfectDisk is installed. It is configured for StealthPatrol on the Windows 7 partition and the Storage partition (I have the Vista partition set to manual). All my programs are installed on the 200 GB Windows 7 partition, but my data is entirely on the 640 GB storage partition. PerfectDisk keeps my program files and data perfectly optimized. I don’t even have to think about defragmenting my drives anymore – I just always have outstanding disk performance. This is especially important when recording, as the large audio files (sometimes several GB per track) can quickly become extremely fragmented. I simply kick off a SmartPlacement defrag on the storage partition before AND after a recording session, and everything is perfectly optimized.”

Greg also had a little to say about PerfectDisk support:

“Your support is simply amazing. If you have a problem, you are contacted within 24 hours, and often times within a few hours of your submission. The support staff are an absolute pleasure to work with - friendly, knowledgeable, competent, and above all — HELPFUL. Raxco has provided some of the best product support experiences I’ve ever had.”