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PerfectDisk 12 defrag reviewed

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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 →

SSD optimization, not SSD defrag…

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There’s still, of course, a long, long way to go for solid state drives (SSDs) to even begin to approach hard disk drives in terms of units sold. Still, as prices come down and capabilities improve, we’ll continue to see more and more adoption of SSDs.

This explains some of the strong interest we have seen in our SSD optimization technology introduced with PerfectDisk 12. People want SSDs for speed. Continue reading →

PerfectDisk 12 out of the gates

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It’s been a crazy, hectic — in a good way — week here at Raxco, as the launch of PerfectDisk 12 got underway Wednesday morning. While we prepared for an onslaught of activity, what we experienced and continue to experience exceeded even our optimistic expectations. Visitors to our website and downloads of PerfectDisk have been up over 15% over last year’s PerfectDisk 11 launch over the first 2 days. Continue reading →

Doctor G on PerfectDisk 12

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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 →

AbsolutelyWindows has its eyes on Raxco and PerfectDisk

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A few months ago, we were honored to have the entire suite of PerfectDisk products receive AbsolutelyWindows’ utility of the year award for its PC, server and virtualization performance-enhancing capabilities. Run by Microsoft and Windows thought leader and Editor-In-Chief John Obeto, AbsolutelyWindows, together with SmallBizWindows, provides product, technical and company information for the small- and medium-sized business as they relate to Windows technology. Obeto, never one to shy away from an opinion, calls everything as he sees it — he doesn’t beat around the bush, as the saying goes. Continue reading →

Shrink drives — perfectly

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A long-time IT professional, Mike Foster discovered that Perfect Disk solved a huge problem. Mike had 100GB of data stored on a 512GB hard drive. He wanted to swap out the hard drive for a much faster 256GB SSD drive. The problem was that he couldn’t “shrink” the data on the 512GB drive to 256GB drive because Windows keeps hidden system files at the opposite end of the drive. As Mike told us: Continue reading →

SSD optimization software

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SSD defrag or SSD optimization?

With Solid State Drives, file fragmentation essentially is NOT an issue – meaning that you don’t typically see any measurable performance issues if a file is fragmented versus if it is contiguous. However, due to the nature of SSDs and how data is written to the drive, free space fragmentation can degrade write performance, and consolidation of free space improves SSD write performance.  Continue reading →