"The only real benefit of a commercial product is they tend to be less obtrusive to the users when they kick off" - I don't agree with this at all.
I use Diskeeper because it defragments continuously using only idle server time. What free product will do this? Tom From: Alex French [mailto:alexcfre...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 3:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Defragmenting servers 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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
