Hi, We use Diskeeper (terrible product - forever crashing) to defrag our entire server estate. It's got a central management console but I believe Perfect disk is a better product.
It depends on the number of users accessing the data and how big your volumes are. You can get a very real performance degradation if you have 15 million fragmented files (especially if some are large). Also - boot time CHKDSKs can be improved if the volume is defragged. The only real benefit of a commercial product is they tend to be less obtrusive to the users when they kick off. File re-ordering can be useful on some systems but it depends if it's SAN storage with large cache or local storage with very little cache... Alex 2009/12/15 mqcarp <mqcarpen...@gmail.com> > Does anyone use tools like diskeeper to defrag their nondatabase > servers? Is it recommended? > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
