Re: D2005 Professional - Initial Observations...

From: Paul Dolen (nospam_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 11/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:47:08 -0600

I actually posted that as a bit of "devil's advocate". I actually run
PerfectDisk myself. But, I don't really know what performance
difference it really makes--maybe it does, maybe not. I just don't
know.

But, PerfectDisk has a comparison to Diskeeper 9, what you are
running. And their test (which just might be biased...) after 3
passes with Diskeeper, the benchmark actually showed a tiny decrease
in performance! But with PerfectDisk, it showed about a 50% increase
in performance after just one pass. Though I don't doubt PerfectDisk
could be better, I find this amount of difference between Diskeeper
and PerfectDisk. But, here is the article if you like, as a PDF:

http://www.perfectdisk.com/products/perfectdisk2k/performancetesting/PD7_DK9_Defragmentation_Performance_Test.pdf
or
http://tinyurl.com/3mvmo

>sorry, but that's complete bull. The performance difference i see between a
>fragged disk and a defragged one (in my case by the evil Diskeeper 9.0) is
>day and night, especially (but not only) if your harddisks are more then 50%
>filled (although even the 10% full disk in my laptop fragments faster then i
>can watch it; and defragging it makes all the difference).
>

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