PerfectDisk 12 defrag reviewed

Aleksey Fingerut is editor of the ”Domashny PK” magazine in Ukraine, and also contributes to a related blog based out of Russia. Aleksey has taken an initial look and test of PerfectDisk 12, and has published initial thoughts at the publication’s online site. The context of the review is PerfectDisk compared with Diskeeper(R).

One key point from Fingerut — if a defragmenter is not preventing fragmentation, it’s obsolete, which leaves just PerfectDisk and Diskeeper.

Here are the general points from the review, in case you don’t read Ukranian: Continue reading

White paper: Real-time fragmentation prevention

As I’ve written about previously, PerfectDisk has used its patented SMARTPlacement optimization strategy to prevent fragmentation for years. While organizing drives according to each individual user’s unique usage patterns, PerfectDisk also creates the largest chunk of contiguous free space possible. This free space consolidation, which has made Raxco the definitive leader in this technology, has the effect of greatly reducing the rate of fragmentation that occurs on a drive. Continue reading

White paper: Real-time fragmentation prevention

As I’ve written about previously, PerfectDisk has used its patented SMARTPlacement optimization strategy to prevent fragmentation for years. While organizing drives according to each individual user’s unique usage patterns, PerfectDisk also creates the largest chunk of contiguous free space possible. This free space consolidation, which has made Raxco the definitive leader in this technology, has the effect of greatly reducing the rate of fragmentation that occurs on a drive. Continue reading

Doctor G on PerfectDisk 12

Steven Gurgevich, PhD and Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, also goes by the nickname “Dr. G.” Dr. G also heads up the Behavioral Medicine center in Tuscon, Arizona. He’s by no means an IT professional. but owns, maintains and uses several computers for writing books, editing journals, performing research and managing precise data. In that sense, he’s typical of millions of other PerfectDisk users — a heavy computer user but not having in-depth technical knowledge when it comes to Windows or the NTFS file system. He just knows he needs a great performing computer, or in his case, many computers. Continue reading

Fragmentation prevention — the next generation

Years ago, Raxco Software obtained a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a disk optimization strategy we all know as SMARTPlacement. SMARTPlacement organizes the files on a drive according to a user’s unique usage patterns. The result is a drive that is not only defragmented, but is optimized for the user. Free space is consolidated into the largest chunks possible. A benefit of this is that when a new file is created, the chances are much greater that the file is created contiguously- that is, not fragmented. Continue reading