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Diskeeper: An Essential Video Performance Component |
from The Executive Software Team
One area of computing which particularly suffers from the effects of
fragmentation is video - editing, graphics, and other tasks. This is due in
part to the extremely large file sizes associated with video. If you've
ever tried to retrieve a large file from a disk that's never been
defragmented, you would notice how insufferably slow it can be.
Videography, the magazine for video professionals, recently did a review of Diskeeper, and it's no surprise that reviewer George Avgerakis found Diskeeper to be "an essential component for any video professional working in Windows NT." He then added, "My company couldn't work without it."
Mr. Avgerakis is obviously no stranger to fragmentation, judging by his excellent description in his article, especially as it relates to the video profession. After establishing an example of a 4 GB drive size, he writes,
"When your computer informs you that your disk has 4 GB of free space, that space may be available as one contiguous chunk, or as a collection of thousands of random chunks of various size. Let's assume you now want to store a 3 GB video file. Your computer looks over the drive, totals up the available space, and starts to fill all the separate empty holes on your drive with the 3 GB of data that comprise your video file." He then later concludes, "Writing to a fragmented disk is slow because your computer has to examine the size of the file you are saving, find chunks of empty space, store the chunk, write a message to the header file, and repeat the process all over again until the file is stored."
Interestingly, it was a popular video file used for over a year in Diskeeper demonstrations showing the effects of fragmentation and defragmentation. The video file having to be retrieved in fragments and shown on the monitor was continually stopping and starting - very jerky. The drive was then defragmented, and the video re-shown, and it ran the way it was supposed to - smoothly, with no hitches.
Many video professionals, along with hundreds of thousands of Windows NT users and administrators, have turned to Diskeeper. Diskeeper, of course, solves the performance hit caused by fragmentation by making these chunks of data contiguous so they can be accessed far more quickly. Not only does Diskeeper defragment, it does so in the background - just "Set It and Forget It"(r). And, with its unique network controls and boot-time directory and paging file defragmentation features, Diskeeper is the most complete fragmentation solution for Windows NT.
Whatever your application, put Diskeeper to work today on ALL your Windows NT systems! Contact your reseller, or order direct. Contact information is at the end of this issue.
You can find the complete Videography review of Diskeeper at:
http://www.videography.com/archive/stories/HOR.WINDOWS.199.shtml
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