Diskeeper 9 opinions needed (for testing)

I would think the major factor when dealing with a defragger is time. How much faster is it than XP? How could you reliably compare that? I suppose you could find a PC that hasn't been defragged in a while and Ghost the HDD to the same make/model HDD and do a comparison that way.

Also, the website states, "You can run yourself ragged manually defragmenting every workstation, desktop, laptop and server on a regular basis—or you can have the problem taken care of automatically with NEW Diskeeper 9!" Can you use it over a network?



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The XP Defrag from what I know (a stripped down Diskeeper version, prolly the 7th's engine), is simply crappy. Slow and inefficient versus Diskeeper's algorithms. The unfortunate thing is, ever since WinME and 2000, they've removed the one true power Win98 had that I loved: the arrange program files so they start faster defrag option. In Win98, I can tell you that feature cut down load times on many programs by as much as 50%. I could load AutoCAD in 6-8 seconds on a Pentium II 350MMX machine with relatively slow HDDs! (6.4GB 5400rpm back then if I remember right, otherwise I also had the 15GB 7200RPM as slave drive too) That feature alone was the reason I defragged. Sadly in WinXP, no matter what new features are added to defragmentation efficiency, it just doesn't speed up much in my experience. Not the same way Win98's defrag did. I dunno if they continued to use that feature since then (I doubt it since the defragged drive layout in Diskeeper doesn't show all programs in a contiguous line) but it sure would come in handy these days with large application sizes.

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You can compare to Norton's disk optimize/defrag

The loving are the daring!

Diskeeper is the best. It does have an option to rearrange files so that they load faster.
I use ver 8, and Undelete.
They work with any RAID drive, and across network drives.
Also are very fast.
I have been using them since NT 4

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I never found progys like them to be reliable. Data loss and corruption of files in most cases.

None bootable partitions etc. Or split partitions after ghosting.

As far as defrag times in XP the scan and defrag times are under 5 minutes for a 80 drive.

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What I'm really asking here is what types of test people would have me perform to compare it to the built-in XP defragmenter.

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Definitely startup and program boot times. I think those are basically some of the main reasons to defrag. Then you can also look at time to access files on the same fragmented drive using different defrag programs. I dunno how to recreate the same environment though for a true comparison. Maybe Deepfreeze the drive?

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BTW, I'm really fragging this drive with Solidworks, I have this model of a car with dozens of 3D surfaces, comprising hundreds of operations, I've been exiting in the middle of operations and leaving the trash all over the place. Every time I open the thing it takes longer and longer to find all the current, correct versions of the parts, etc.

Oh, and I need a faster processor, a P4 30GHz would still be too slow!

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BTW, the 30GB partition is on a 160GB SATA drive, no problems overclocking here.

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Crash, I was having problems with Exec Undelete 4 Pro...
I uninstalled and reinstalled but had to run version 3 first, since 4 was an upgrade, and would not work. Undelete kept saying that I had not rebooted since installed, even though I had...
Anyhoo, I even uninstalled and deleted all reg entries with udserve.exe in them, and still no success.

I call Execsoft tech, got a tech on SECOND RING!!!
Explained the problem and he was aware of problem, and emailed me version 4 full, no need for upgrade.

He told me to delete Recov Bin which I am doing now, then empty standard recycler bin and then install new full version 4.
I will let you know when it works if successfull, which I am sure will work fine, but it is taking an hour to delete the two bins...
Which he said is normal considering size of my drives and the numbers of small dat files...

The point is how quick tech support answered and how knowledgable he was. Something you do not get with some other s/w companies.
I am impressed again with Executive Diskeeper 8 and Undelete 4 Tech support team!
Just wanted to let you know...
BTW, where is your review on DK 9?

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