Last year, Kansas-based William Newton Hospital, which serves a community of 40,000 people and has revenues of over $40 million, made the switch to PerfectDisk to improve its virtualization performance. The hospital looked to PerfectDisk's virtualization defrag solutions, which include tools for vSphere performance and Hyper-V performance improvements. William Newton Hospital maintains physical and virtual servers for database functions such as electronic medical record keeping, financial, inventory, lab and radiology information, and Point of Care charting. Medical Verification is also used at patient bedside via wireless Chart Carts and PDAs, along with a radiology image storage and retrieval system.
The big appeal, according to IT director Randy Mayo was PerfectDisk's unique Virtual Awareness capability, which eliminated "the severe system slowdown on our servers that we were experiencing with Diskeeper." As Randy points out, "PerfectDisk automatically determines guest and host activity to eliminate resource contention and minimize the impact on our shared storage. The result is faster systems, improved productivity and better service to our patients.”
But William Newton didn't stop there, as they continued to look to Raxco Software for performance and productivity improvements. This investigation led them to PerfectSpeed, Raxco's tool for boosting performance as well as cleaning up performance-debilitating clutter. While its typical use is for the home consumer, William Newton found so many useful tools for slow PC fixes and slow PC performance in PerfectSpeed that they've put it on over a hundred employees' computers. For these users, Mayo gets not only the benefit of the best defrag software, but also a powerful duplicate file removal program and one of the best registry cleaners, all helping speed up PC performance and ensuring these computers run at peak performance and efficiency.
From virtualization performance to an easy slow PC fix -- William Newton Hospital has found its fix.
Sometimes it's fun to take a step back from all the file system, slow PC tips, and Hyper-V performance counters talk and see how the best defrag software tool plays out in the real world. On its own, a server defrag may seem a little drab. But if you see how it's helping a baseball team, well...that can make it a little more interesting.
The Greater Des Moines Baseball Company is the umbrella company for the Iowa Cubs minor league baseball team of the Pacific Coast League. Recently, the Cubs selected PerfectDisk 11 Server to boost its servers’ performance through disk defragmentation. The Cubs, with several hundred employees serving an annual attendance of over 500,000, use its servers for ticketing, merchandise sales, food and beverage sales, video boards and score boards, video production, financial and back office functions, and database management. The team's servers have several physical and virtual servers on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 to run the business. Prior to selecting PerfectDisk over a competitive product, the Cubs used the Windows built-in disk defrag utility, but it was not up to the task. “Microsoft’s built-in defragmenter did not really accomplish much in terms of improved performance for our server, plus it was very slow,” said Larry Schunk, Chief Technology Officer at Greater Des Moines Baseball. “With PerfectDisk, our servers are running faster than ever, which means all our employees are more productive; in addition, its automation and powerful reporting tools provide a great value.”
You can see the complete press release of the Cubs server defrag selection here.
Play ball. Win. Give your servers a good server defrag with the best defrag software.
The Cubs are in first place. Coincidence? That's crazy talk.
When trying to figure out how to make your PC run faster, many people turn to look for the best defrag tool and best PC optimizer. Look at reviews, head to the user forums, ask their colleagues and friends to see what the options are. Free or paid for. Automatic or manual. Lots of options or few. Enterprise defrag or for personal use only. It's all well and good, and what drives us here at Raxco to deliver the market's best defrag software year after year.
But we also like to differentiate ourselves in a different way, through our technical support and customer service. So while we truly believe PerfectDisk is the best defrag software available, we also think our service and support are superior as well. That attitude is epitomized by Wendy Clontz, who heads up our customer service department and whom we are proud to have with us.
Dan Baldry is a 20--year IT professional in Sydney, Australia, managing a team of people who sell maintenance and professional services for one of the world's largest networking companies. Dan wrote to me directly recently about what he described as our "excellent service," which he argues is hard to find these days. Here are some of Dan's words:
"I purchased Perfect Disk a few years ago mainly on the basis of an article I came across in a local PC magazine that I thought gave a good impartial review and sold me on the merits of the product. With a computing background, to me disk defragmentation is what I would describe as a routine housekeeping item that I would consider baseline for a healthy PC. In a perfect world this would be delivered as a native part of the operating system. You might argue that it is, but I'm suspicious of the standard utility and a bit wary of the available freeware (though I know they are reasonably good). With my hard disk capacity getting bigger, I was on the hunt for a good utility that would just do the job and I could be confident in (no doubts), so that was why I decided to stump up the dollars and go for Perfect Disk. In short, I wanted to be sure my system was at optimum health and running with maximum performance all the time. You might ask why? Well, I use my PC for a mix of work and play and it became a bit of a mission to drive the best performance without resorting to a massive/expensive upgrade as time went on. A few dollars on PD seemed like a good option. Eventually I did upgrade but I still use PD as part of the same housekeeping approach.
However, over the past couple of years, with reinstalls, losing keys, lost downloads etc... and needing to call on support more than once came to realise that the Raxco company offered me an extension of the confidence that I had in the product, and that was the confidence that if I had an issue I would get a reasonably quick, no nonsense, response. Even though it was probably only a few interactions over something like 24 months, I realised it was the same people assisting me throughout, which made me feel the company must have something going for it to be able to retain people like that. The consistent message I hear back is that while customers choose our physical products to drive their business based on value and the vision of our company, it's the Services we offer that keeps them coming back. Not only that, but our partners value our Services above all for the profitable revenue it drives - and customers are willing to pay as they have confidence that they are getting a total package. I think it's how we treat our customers after the sale that creates real business, and I think that's something Raxco has understood from the get go."
So there you have it, directly from a professional in the IT field. It's not enough for us to deliver the best defrag software or to simply fix a slow PC startup. We need to go the extra mile.Service -- before and after the sale -- for life.
It seems you can't visit a technology web site or pick up a trade publication today without seeing - oh - 1 to 10 articles on the ubiquitous cloud. Pity the poor, forgotten client PC. It seems nobody cares about it any more. Do they? Should they?
Daniel W. Rasmus, author of Listening to the Future (Wiley, 2008), is a strategist who helps clients put their futures in context. He uses scenarios to analyze trends in society, technology, economics, the environment, and politics in order to discover implications used to develop and refine products, services, and experiences. Prior to starting his own consulting practice, he was the Director of Business Insights at Microsoft, where he helped the company envision how people will work in the future. Rasmus coordinated the Microsoft Office Information Worker Board of the Future, an advisory panel composed of college-aged students who share ideas on how to better serve the “Millennial Generation” as they join the workforce. He also managed the Center for Information Work, an immersive experience that helped Microsoft's customers experience the future of work first hand.
Before joining Microsoft, Rasmus was an analyst with the Giga Information Group, and later Forrester Research. His achievements include inventing conceptual frameworks for next-generation collaboration, adaptive workspaces, and intelligent content services. He also served as Giga's Chief Knowledge Officer, managing internal learning within research, sales, and marketing.
Writing on the Internet Evolution website yesterday, Rasmus wrote the article It's Time to Think About Clients, Not Clouds. He asks the question -- "as computers gain more processing power, has the move to the cloud forced us to abandon higher goals for the client?" Rasmus points out that most of a computer's power is used when you sit before it, and writes:
Think about that. When you turn your computer on in the morning, it is no different than it was the night before. Even if you leave the computer on, the most you can hope for is a completed backup, a few patches, a new RSS feed or two, a complete local index, perhaps a hard drive defrag.
Well, there you have it. Yes, computers do a lot of nothing when their owners or users are not driving them. They sit there, waiting for the next user command so they can go off and do whatever it is the user wants. To defrag a computer or defrag hard disk may not be the most important PC issues for many people (although we think it should be!), we're proud that we are one of the few applications that can give the client PC a boost when you're not sitting in front of it. Whether you want to fix a slow PC startup or obtain overall faster PC performance, applications like PerfectDisk and PerfectSpeed address the issues when your PC is idle and not consuming any CPU. Auto defrag when your computer is otherwise idle, through StealthPatrol. It works, even when you're resting.
Check out thought leader Daniel Rasmus' article on the Internet Evolution site; and remember who's thinking smarter when it comes to your computers.
One of the great IT challenges in my opinion is helping SMBs (small- and medium-size businesses) maximize their use of technology to achieve their business goals. The reason it is such a big challenge is that there is often minimal expertise in-house, and even less time to devote to thinking about ways in which technology can help. If a business is devoting the majority of its resources to figuring out how to find that next customer, maintain its existing customers, or just keep afloat in these challenging times, there's usually not much time, if any, to spend thinking about how to take advantage of new technology, or planning strategically. Sure, when something goes bad and a problem arises, technology moves to the forefront of the business concerns. But once the fire is put out, it's back to the day-to-day.
But there are SMBs that have figured out that there is true benefit to taking advantage of technology to make their businesses better or smarter. There's a proactive way that not only can stop (or minimize) problems from occurring, but make the business better. Through greater efficiency, more productive employees, better service, etc.
This is where a company called ProsLink comes in. ProsLink is an IT solutions firm headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana that has carved out a niche for itself focusing on helping SMBs run their businesses better. Officially, it "specializes in building and supporting IT network infrastructures for small and medium businesses." What's that mean? Well, it can be anything from helping businesses do a better job of handling their email to helping a company deploy an anti-virus solution so the company can cross that off the list of things to worry about. Things as relatively simple as figuring out the best PCs for a company's workers, to as complex as implementing server virtualization to reduce costs, or vSphere and virtualization performance tuning. The list of services ProsLink provides is long. But the benefits are focused.
ProsLink has even been singled out by Cisco for its work. ProsLink's SmartCare Service works in conjunction with Cisco Services to proactively verify that a network is secure, reliable, and functioning optimally to help improve employee productivity and customer responsiveness to get the most from technology investments. The people at ProsLink know their stuff, and this is all real stuff that helps a business run better.
In looking at server and desktop performance, one area where ProsLink has researched heavily is disk defragmentation. It's looked at all the options and possible solutions out there. It's done its homework, and we're happy that it has found PerfectDisk to meet all its needs and those of its clients, from virtualization performance and vSphere performance to auto defrag, from server defrag to faster PC performance.
As Craig Hickman of ProsLink told me recently, his company "utilizes PerfectDisk solutions for clients who are looking to receive peak performance from their servers and desktops. PerfectDisk is a great solution for those looking to keep older and newer hardware optimized on a continuous basis."
A business that gets it. For SMBs that get it.
Hybrid drives use the fundamentals of a hard drive, but add additional capability with RAM or an SSD for increased performance. Wikipedia gives the following definition:
A hybrid drive, hybrid hard drive (HHD), or hybrid hard disk drive (H-HDD) is a type of large-buffer computer hard disk drive. It is different from standard hard drives in that it integrates a cache using non-volatile memory or even a small solid-state drive (SSD). Although the cache typically uses non-volatile flash memory, some drives use battery-backed volatile RAM (a hybrid RAM disk). The flash memory buffer can speed up repeated reads to the same location; a RAM buffer speeds both reads and writes, but must be written to backup storage when power is lost.
Benefits of hybrid drives can include decreased power consumption and heat generation, the ability to boot quicker via faster boot times and faster PC startup, decreased noise, improved reliability, and improved performance.
But there are drawbacks too. Such as lower performance for non-cached data and small disk writes. They are more expensive than regular hard drives and don't last as long. There may actually be more noise and power usage in some cases. And importantly, recover-ability of data can be problematic.
Well, once you've look at all the considerations and do your research, if you do end up with a hybrid, what about defragmentation - do you need a defrag program for your hybrid drive? The short answer is -- yes.
As for the why, it's due to the fact that at the core of a hybrid drive is a good ol' fashion hard disk drive. So just think - if you need to a defrag utility to defrag hard drive, defrag metadata and defrag, you'll need to defrag a hybrid drive -- because a good portion of it is a hard drive. The reading and writing - and therefore the modifying, adding and deleting that causes fragmentation -- ultimately occurs on the hard drive itself. And that had drive is where the NTFS file system resides, along with all its peculiarities and problems.
A lot of activity may occur in a RAM drive (or now, SSD), but when this happens, periodically the data is moved to the hard drive. This periodic flushing of the data occurs within the controller and is determined by the drive manufacturer. But once it ends up on the hard drive, it's prone to fragmentation just like a non-hybrid drive.
Hybrid drive defrag? Yes, and use your best defrag software, as always.
Related Posts:
SSD overview and do I need an SSD defrag -- Part 1
SSD overview and do I need an SSD defrag -- Part 2
Information Week had a recent cover story entitled Are Your Apps Smart Enough? This got me thinking, like most things do, of defrag programs and the "smarts" that are required to make the best defrag software. After all, any decent defrag utility, even freeware, is going to do a bare minimum (hopefully), to at least attempt to put fragmented files into a single piece and get you faster PC performance.
But how do you know if your defrag program is smart enough to be the best defrag software? Here are 12 to get you started:
- The developers of your defrag utility meet regularly with Microsoft development teams, including file system experts, for a true understanding of file system behaviors, strategies and plans.
- The defrag utility employs disk and file optimization strategies for the best possible drive optimization, rather than simply defragments files, so it is a true PC performance optimizer, beyond just a simple defrag utility.
- It performs robust free space consolidation to significantly prevent fragmentation, reduce the rate of future fragmentation and improve write performance.
- It's smart enough to just defrag a file -- a single file or a few selected files -- rather than the entire drive, if that's all that is fragmented and that's all you need done at a particular time.
- It doesn't force you into a single way to defrag - it provides flexible scheduling options that are accommodating to your activity and requirements, whether you need or want automatic background defragmentation during idle time, screen saver defrag, or daily or weekly schedules.
- It optimizes boot files to improve boot time by 20% or more.
- It provides a free, Microsoft-certified duplicate file remover and file recycler to further assist disk cleanup and optimization efforts.
- It's simple enough for the novice user but with free, optional advanced features for power users.
- It's smart enough to be the choice for tens of thousands of World of Warcraft users around the world to improve World of Warcraft performance and used by millions of gamers around the world to improve the performance of other PC games.
- It's intelligent enough to contain patent-pending technology that ensures no resource contention in virtual environments and can boost virtualization performance with specific solutions for vSphere and Hyper-V.
- It's passed the internal tests, pilot programs and RFPs of many of the world's largest companies and government agencies, and is deployed in and helping those enterprises today.
- It is certified by Microsoft for Windows 7.
The Microsoft at Work website was put together by the folks in Redmond to help people ”streamline” their work life” so you can spend a little more time on your life…"we hope the information gathered here will help you get—and stay—ahead at the office.” In a collaboration article entitled 5 ways to speed up your PC, Microsoft recommends disk defragmentation as a key component to keeping your PCs running fast. The article states “disk fragmentation slows the overall performance of your system. When files are fragmented, the computer must search the hard disk when the file is opened to piece it back together. The response time can be significantly longer.”
And Microsoft continues, noting in particular some instances when performing defragmentation is particularly important. These times include:
- adding a large number of files
- free disk space totals 15% or less
- you install new programs or a new version of Windows,
There are always doubters, but coming from the maker of the operating system that it tells us all is so wonderful, the need for defragmentation is clear. Microsoft has designed a file system that fragments. It tells you so and tells you it should be fixed through defragmentation. It's an easy slow PC fix. Now, what you don’t need is one that isn’t automatic, that can’t run with low levels of free space, and has just a fraction of required functionality. Microsoft creates the problem, go to someone else to fix it. I don’t take my kid back to his sick friend to get better….we go to a doctor.
There’s a smarter cure for faster PC performance.
IndyGeek.net was formed last fall "to serve the latest in technology news to both geeks and non-techies alike by using a mix of social media, blogging and in-person networking." According to the site, "we place emphasis on the end user and small businesses looking to gain an edge in the ever-competitive mid-west market."
Well, it turns out the mid-west market is a lot like the rest of the world when looking for faster PC speed, faster PC startup, and overall faster PC performance. In a PC tuneup article on the IndyGeek site last week, Senior Editor Alex Connor wrote about PC Spring Cleaning Done Right, for those looking for faster PC performance. To get faster PC performance, Connor writes that, in his article, "we will use a variety of free tools, and I will recommend a few paid tools where I feel they provide a good value."
Connor covers backup, anti-virus, and cleanup of various files, including temporary files (while not mentioned in the article, PerfectDisk 11 Pro also does cleanup of duplicate and temporary files). Then Alex gets into my favorite part of every story - the defragmentation program:
He writes -- "defragging will usually help performance. Here’s where I make a recommendation – go order PerfectDisk and install it. It will prevent your disk from becoming highly fragmented and it has an offline boot-time defragger that can defrag your system files to really give you a performance boost. I even get a pretty significant runtime boost on my laptop by keeping the disk highly defragmented with PerfectDisk. If you use PerfectDisk, run the defragment on your drive, then do an offline defragmentation of your system files – which will require a reboot..."
For faster PC speed and slow PC tips, IndyGeek has some answers that you can read here.
Happy Mother's Day Weekend! For those of you (and dads) with kids, or those adults who just like animals and games that are “good, clean fun,” you probably know all about Webkinz. For the uninitiated, you can go here to learn about these stuffed animals that take on a life of their own, a life that is controlled by the user — feeding your animal, buying it things, playing with it, etc. Watch a child play Webkinz on a computer, watch that child “lose” themselves in the moment.
Alas, like most fun things on a PC, Webkinz is more fun when it’s not bogged down by slow PC problems and slow PC performance. Real world — getting stuck in traffic stinks. Webkinz World — waiting to feed your hungry pet dog because your PC is crawling stinks. Who wants to be told by the Webkinz police that you are not taking care of your pet! Good grief.
Fortunately, some of the usual culprits are at play here, causing slow PC performance problems for the uninitiated. In researching these issues, we’ve found that most of the games within Webkinz World are big Flash games. These games consume lots of RAM and put a toll on your PC’s graphics. And often, the more time one spends playing on Webkinz, the worse performance gets. Cookies get created, cache gets filled. What happens is every time you go to the site, a boatload of temporary internet files get created from ads on the site. These get onto your PC, and you've got slow PC performance.
This is where PerfectDisk comes into play. Cleaning up your drive of unnecessary files, then defragmenting the files and consolidating the free space. All leading to faster PC performance and a less frustrating Webkinz experience. Files on the drive are put back together in contiguous pieces so they are accessed faster. With the disk cleaned of unnecessary files, you have robust free space consolidation. And your kid, or you, are off and running through the rooms and yards of Webkinz World. Heck, you even get a faster PC startup so you can get playing more quickly!
And most importantly of all, your Webkinz dog, cow, monkey or other pet is fed and taken care of more quickly.
This past week, eWeek's Nicholas Kolakowski wrote about 5 Windows 7 issues that every IT pro needs to know, which I found interesting because it touched on some real world scenarios that an organization must face when moving to Windows 7. The five issues Nicholas calls out are:
- Lack of upgrade path between Windows XP and Windows 7
- Libraries functionality
- Legacy applications backwards compatibility
- Occasional battery life issues for laptops running Windows 7
- Early drive incompatibility.
But the point is, as with any major upgrade, things may not be as simple and straightforward as they appear. And that's the case with the Windows 7 defrag - sounds decent on paper, but there's more to the story. Even ignoring even the quality, thoroughness and flexibility, a key thing for IT managers is management and control of the process. There is no management and control of the built-in Windows 7 defrag. So if you're looking to speed up PC performance across the enterprise and also manage and report on the process, you'll run into roadblocks with the built-in Windows 7 defrag. We've outlined the administrative issues and a lot more in a white paper previously released.
Windows 7 offer a lot. But particularly for IT pros, things are not necessarily as straightforward as they may seem.
You can see the entire eWeek set of slides here.
Related posts:
- From Motorola -- Windows 7 defrag -- real world, real family, real money saved
- IT warming up to Windows 7 -- remember to auto defrag XP and Windows 7
- Windows 7 performance -- defrag to get it
- Windows 7 -- defrag with confidence
- Windows 7 defrag -- no file or folder exclusion
- Windows 7 defrag in a corporate environment
- Windows 7 defrag -- real world, real guy
- Defrag for Windows 7 -- "Raxco Software has outdone itself again"
Kevin Maharaj, of Hayward, California, is a business consultant at Motorola. He has a 5-year old Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop, which is used by his entire family. With all that use over all those years, it became slower and slower. Kevin writes: "I tried everything I could, even defragged but nothing worked...it was just to slow."
Slow PC problems were getting the best of the Maharaj family. He needed to try something new to speed up PC performance. Time to look for the best defrag tool. Kevin "found out that PerfectDisk 11 was released so I tried it. PerfectDisk 11 has this enhanced SMARTPlacement feature. The thing is, that it defragged my laptop SO WELL...SO WELL!"
Not only did he improve PC performance and the laptop can now boot quicker, perhaps the best news is that Kevin can hold on to his laptop. "This is a 5-year old laptop and absolutely no need to upgrade."
Improve PC performance. Boot quicker. Defrag Windows 7 a better way. Protect your investment and save money.
Get smart.
Bob Nolan, Raxco Software president and CEO, recently appeared on the long-running radio show Let's Talk Computers. The topic was PerfectDisk 11 and how to make your PC run faster. Everything from slow PC startup to slow PC performance is a problem. As host Alan Ashendorf point out in his introduction, "we all want our computer systems to run as fast as possible. No one really likes having a slow computer. But each time we use our computer, our computer will run slower and slower until we do something about this."
In the interview, Bob gets into free space consolidation as well as PerfectDisk's Selected Files Defrag to defrag a file rather than an entire drive.
You can listen to the interview here and see the transcript here.
Listen to see how to make your PC run faster.
Dimensional Research recently surveyed 923 IT professionals about their Windows operating system adoption plans, and the indication is that the trend away from XP and towards Windows 7 is at least starting. Gregg Keizer, writing in Computerworld (April 5, 2010), states that "business are finally prying their hands from Windows XP and they warm to Windows 7. The feeling about how great XP has been is beginning to fade.
In Dimensional's new study, 40% of the respondents said that they're worried about the hassles of maintaining XP as it gets more and more outdated. That's up from 28% almost a year ago. And while 60% of the respondents said they're worried about the cost and overhead of migrating to Windows 7, that number is down from 72% last year. The study stated that "IT is still more worried about Windows 7 than XP, but the trend is favoring Windows 7."
As I and many others expected, it's just a matter of time. And in terms of defragmenting computer, PerfectDisk has it all covered. From auto defrag XP to a certified Windows 7 defrag, you can get the best disk defrag from PerfectDisk and speed up PC performance and boot quicker.
From the past to the present...and whatever is to come.
Jeff LaFleur, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, thought he had the perfect solution for his Windows Home Server environment. He almost did, except with slow PC performance and slow server performance, he knew there was one piece missing. So he needed a slow PC fix to right his entire WHS environment. His story:
"Two months ago I purchased my HP EX487 MSS; I was excited to have finally been able to afford my new toy (needed backup device is what I told the spouse so Shhhh). Soon after setting it all up, I began tinkering with everything I could find. See, I'm not the most computer literate person; I thought I understood what I was doing, but I didn't. After 3 server recoveries, my server was back up and running nicely. I had one issue left to deal with - slow performance. With each server recovery, the server got slower and slower. I decided I would try PerfectDisk 10 Windows Home Server, hoping I might be able to reclaim a small portion of my speed back. After installing PerfectDisk, I discovered my C: partition was 40% fragmented. Once PerfectDisk was finished, the server was 100% better. Gone was the slow loading console and slow response from the media streamer. I was delighted to say the least. To sweeten the deal, I was also given a license to install PerfectDisk on my Windows 7 laptop.
"A week or so later, I received and email from Raxco notifying me there was a new version coming out, PerfectDisk 11, and once more I was pleasantly surprised when I learned it was a free update. PerfectDisk 11's interface is easy to use and easy for someone like myself to understand. I appreciate the time they spent tuning the interface to make it as user friendly as possible." A WHS defrag plus a Windows 7 defrag adds up to a perfect Windows Home Server experience.
And a perfect bundle, in Minneapolis and everywhere.
Happy St. Patrick's Day! A day for green bagels and green beer...and a green defrag. Yes, while you may have thought about a defrag solution when you were thinking about slow PC tips for your computer, there are also ways that you can improve PC performance and be a little greener, environmentally speaking, in the process.
Here are just a few ways PerfectDisk can help you do your part in keeping the planet, or your life, more environmentally and economically friendly:
- file placement strategies result in fewer resources consumed over time
- flexible scheduling options like idle background processing, screen saver and more result in fewer resources consumed
- longer life for PCs and laptops, because they maintain their performance, means fewer in the trash
- longer life for hard drives.
Looking for a real-world example? Steven V. Smith is the president of SoundsSmith Mastering, a media post-production service company specializing in traditional mastering, fine editing, creating duplication masters, and quality control. Steven writes:
"I have to say that my biggest appreciation is that I’ve noticed my hard drives (all of them, regardless of brand) seem to be so much more trouble-free, and work like new (quiet, fast) after several years of hard use. Before I started using PerfectDisk regularly, hard drive failure was not so uncommon for us here.
"I think the difference has been since PerfectDisk's StealthPatrol proved to be so completely non-performance-impinging, and I could leave it on all the time (for all our drives) and never worry about fragmentation or system performance issues from running an auto defrag. This is like having your cake and eating it too. I attribute it to PerfectDisk and StealthPatrol (with the default SmartPlacement, in our case)!
"I don’t build systems for other people these days, but if I did, not a one would go out without PD11 installed and set for Stealth Patrol."
Less hard drive failure leads to holding on to your hard drives longer. And being greener.
With or without the green beer.
www.perfectdisk.com
Related Posts:
- It's an 11 -- start your engines
- PerfectDisk 11 defrag -- What's New
- Windows 7 performance -- defrag to get it
- It goes to 11 -- in 11 days
- Mini-sneak peek: a few few PerfectDisk 11 videos on the PerfectDiskNews YouTUbe Channel
- Well, well -- aren't you picky -- defrag a file -- or 100
- VSS defrag -- more flexibility and control
- More than defrag -- to space and beyond
- Bipartisan support on the best defrag software -- from the defrag capital
- Enterprise defragmentation evolved -- Remote Free Space Management
- A smarter way to speed up PC performance
- Size matters; then again, it doesn't
- Exchange defrag software -- ready for Exchange 2010
- Look beneath the surface, clean your PC, shrink your drive
- Defrag analysis -- catch me if you can
- A smarter SMARTPlacement is a smarter defrag and disk space management
- PerfectDisk 11 -- Gearing up for Beta
- PerfectDisk 11 defrag -- on the horizon
Drew Como is the director of infrastructure at Kaos Studios, in the heart of Manhattan in New York City. Kaos is a division of videogame publisher THQ. Kaos Studios artists, developers and designers need the best possible system performance for their computers. Simply put, they need the best defrag software possible. Of course, the millions of people that play THQ's games also want maximum performance.
Drew has his thoughts on PerectDisk 11:“PerfectDisk 11 is a stellar product that far surpasses PerfectDisk 10 “The engine is many times faster, even on large drives with a high volume of files, and the new customization and reporting capabilities help ensure our computers run as fast as possible and we have the storage information we need.”
On a scale of 1 to 10, it's an 11. Coming tomorrow.
Related Posts:
- PerfectDisk 11 defrag -- What's New
- Windows 7 performance -- defrag to get it
- It goes to 11 -- in 11 days
- Mini-sneak peek: a few few PerfectDisk 11 videos on the PerfectDiskNews YouTUbe Channel
- Well, well -- aren't you picky -- defrag a file -- or 100
- VSS defrag -- more flexibility and control
- More than defrag -- to space and beyond
- Bipartisan support on the best defrag software -- from the defrag capital
- Enterprise defragmentation evolved -- Remote Free Space Management
- A smarter way to speed up PC performance
- Size matters; then again, it doesn't
- Exchange defrag software -- ready for Exchange 2010
- Look beneath the surface, clean your PC, shrink your drive
- Defrag analysis -- catch me if you can
- A smarter SMARTPlacement is a smarter defrag and disk space management
- PerfectDisk 11 -- Gearing up for Beta
- PerfectDisk 11 defrag -- on the horizon
For those of you following this space over the last several weeks, you've seen a glimpse of what's new in PerfectDisk 11. For an overview, here's a link to follow to what is new in the PerfectDisk 11 disk defrag program:
PerfectDisk 11 Whats New
On a scale of 1 to 10, it's an 11. Coming Tuesday.
Related Posts:
- Windows 7 performance -- defrag to get it
- It goes to 11 -- in 11 days
- Mini-sneak peek: a few few PerfectDisk 11 videos on the PerfectDiskNews YouTUbe Channel
- Well, well -- aren't you picky -- defrag a file -- or 100
- VSS defrag -- more flexibility and control
- More than defrag -- to space and beyond
- Bipartisan support on the best defrag software -- from the defrag capital
- Enterprise defragmentation evolved -- Remote Free Space Management
- A smarter way to speed up PC performance
- Size matters; then again, it doesn't
- Exchange defrag software -- ready for Exchange 2010
- Look beneath the surface, clean your PC, shrink your drive
- Defrag analysis -- catch me if you can
- A smarter SMARTPlacement is a smarter defrag and disk space management
- PerfectDisk 11 -- Gearing up for Beta
- PerfectDisk 11 defrag -- on the horizon
PerfectDisk provides more, and that mantra will carry on to PerfectDisk 11. Microsoft has given its seal of approval to PerfectDisk 11, and here is just a very small sampling from some of our thousands of PerfectDisk 11 beta testers that looked to boost their Windows 7 performance with PerfectDisk 11:
"I have been running the PerfectDisk 11 Beta on two different computers - one with Windows XP Pro and the other with Windows 7 Ultimate x64. Not one problem. This is going to be one awesome software when the final is released."
Shawn Antosz
"I am very impressed! Analyzing and defragmenting is noticeably faster than previous versions and I like the new layout. I've not noticed any issues. Installed on Win 7 x64. Looking forward to the final release! Good work."
Adrian Jefferies
"I've noted significant defragmentation improvement on the Windows 7 system. Very much appreciate the usability features. Thanks for a wonderful product."
Henry Gardiner
The Windows 7 defragmenter functions. Like a lot of things in life, you can choose functional, or choose to function...or you can excel.
There's a better way to defrag Windows 7 and boost Windows 7 performance.
On a scale of 1 to 10, it's an 11. Coming Tuesday.
Related posts (Windows 7 defrag):
- Windows 7 -- defrag with confidence
- Windows 7 defrag -- no file or folder exclusion
- Windows 7 defrag in a corporate environment
- Windows 7 defrag -- real world, real guy
- Defrag for Windows 7 -- "Raxco Software has outdone itself again"
- It goes to 11 -- in 11 days
- Mini-sneak peek: a few few PerfectDisk 11 videos on the PerfectDiskNews YouTUbe Channel
- Well, well -- aren't you picky -- defrag a file -- or 100
- VSS defrag -- more flexibility and control
- More than defrag -- to space and beyond
- Bipartisan support on the best defrag software -- from the defrag capital
- Enterprise defragmentation evolved -- Remote Free Space Management
- A smarter way to speed up PC performance
- Size matters; then again, it doesn't
- Exchange defrag software -- ready for Exchange 2010
- Look beneath the surface, clean your PC, shrink your drive
- Defrag analysis -- catch me if you can
- A smarter SMARTPlacement is a smarter defrag and disk space management
- PerfectDisk 11 -- Gearing up for Beta
- PerfectDisk 11 defrag -- on the horizon
Powered by Compendium Blogware