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For years, a debate has raged concerning the impact of disk fragmentation on system performance.  On the one hand, utility vendors claimed performance boosts of anywhere from 15 to 25 percent, but had no supporting independent tests.  Detractors argued that fragmentation was a dead issue, applicable only to a bygone technological age.  Still others have argued that fragmentation was indeed a problem - but only on busy machines. 

To resolve this long-running debate, the National Software Testing Lab (NSTL) of Conshohocken, Pennsylvania conducted the first independent performance tests on defragmentation.  The result?  An emphatic thumbs up for defragmentation, with NT workstation performance increased by as much as 81 percent, and server recorded gains of up to 56 percent. 

The tests were conducted using Diskeeper, the most commonly used defragmenter for Windows NT. The benchmarks were performed on four computer systems running Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. Two systems were running Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and two were running Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server. Two of the most common real-world configurations were tested. These configurations were determined through a random survey of over 6000 system
managers (The survey was conducted by Broadcasters Network International, a market research company based in La Crescenta, California, specializing in high technology issues). 

As stated in the NSTL report, a Pentium II 266 workstation with 96 MB of memory and a 2 GB IDE hard drive running Outlook and Excel, "showed an increase in performance of 74.4 percent after defragmentation."   A more powerful machine scored higher on the same test; when NSTL ran a PII 400 MHz workstation with 228 MB RAM and a 4.2 GB hard drive, the improvement rose to
80.6 percent.

In the server category, two of the most popular configurations underwent benchmark performance testing.  A dual Pentium PRO 200 with 128 MB of memory and five, 4-GB SCSI hard drives, running RAID 5, Exchange Server and SQL Server 7.0, attained an increase of 19.6 percent on a defragmented drive. The findings were even more impressive on a Pentium PRO 200 with 64 MB of RAM, two 4-GB SCSI hard drives running Exchange and SQL 7.0.  Performance soared by 56.1% after defragmentation.

Now that the performance gain has been proven, get Diskeeper for ALL your Windows NT workstations and servers!   Contact your favorite reseller, or order direct.  Contact information is at the end of this issue.

Full benchmark results will shortly be available at http://www.execsoft.com/ or at http://www.nstl.com/.  If you would like a copy now, send an e-mail to one of the addresses shown in the "Cost-Justification" section below.

New!  Diskeeper Cost Justification Analysis

With real-world benchmark testing as a backbone, we have just released a new cost-justification analysis for Diskeeper, which provides real-world savings based on hard figures. 

One of the most important benefits of a network defragmenter is the increased speed and performance that it achieves and maintains for a system. With users not having to wait, man-hours are saved.  The net result is increased productivity and a demonstrable return-on-investment (ROI).   Our new analysis shows this ROI clearly and exactly.

Research indicates that a 25-30% increase in system performance (less than half the actual test results, which can be seen in the article above) equates to a savings of 5 - 8 minutes per user, per hour.  However, the analysis is designed to calculate savings using estimates of only seconds per hour - and there is almost no machine anywhere that won't make gains of at least seconds per hour. 

See for yourself how fast Diskeeper will pay for itself!   The new Diskeeper Cost-Justification Analysis will shortly be available on our Web site (http://www.executive.com), but you can get your own copy of the Analysis by sending an e-mail to one of the addresses below:

Eastern United States, Latin America, South America: Rick Grassi, Sales Manager
rgrassi@executive.com

Western United States, Asia, Pacific Rim: Jeremy Pomerantz, Sales Manager
jpomerantz@executive.com

Midwestern United States, Canada: Brenda Marshall, Sales Manager
bmarshall@executive.com

U.S. Government Sites: Holleigh Taufer, Sales Manager
htaufer@executive.com

Europe, Africa and the Middle East:
sales@execsoft.co.uk

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