Re: Does it rock?

From: Lars Black (lcb)
Date: 11/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:11:57 +0100

> I find this amount of difference between Diskeeper and PerfectDisk a
> little hard to believe.

Using PerfectDisk myself.. A few years ago (when NT4 was new ;-), the
company I worked for did some serious testing of defrag program for our
server. Diskeeper (no "lite" version at that time) never manager to defrag a
disk completely if it didn't have 30-50% free space and even then, it was
crappy..
PerfectDisk OTOH, defragged the disk almost completly in one run.
So the case story could refer to a VERY fragmented disk, that Diskeeper need
a lot of runs to defrag (if it ever succed with if) while PD goes a great
way in first run - that could explain the difference..

Cheers,
Lars

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