Following the release of Diskeeper 4.0, we heard raves from the public.
Now, the raves from the press are rolling in. Two of the most recent - from
Windows magazine and PC Magazine (both February `99 issues now on
newsstands) - find Diskeeper to be the best of its kind.
Serdar Yegulalp, product reviewer for Windows Magazine, says early in his
review, "Changes to this version, including swap-file defragging, are
confined to the program's innards. The result is an excellent utility
that's downright indispensable." Following a walk-through of Diskeeper's
features, Yegulalp concludes his review with "Diskeeper earned its stripes
as the best NT defragger; version 4.0 replaces the previous version on our
WinList." The WinList is Windows magazine's recommended list of
best-of-breed software.
Steve Rigney, reviewer for PC magazine, found Diskeeper's new features,
along with Diskeeper's regular features, to be useful and easy. Agreeing
with a vast majority of system administrators, Mr. Rigney writes, "The
ability to schedule disk defrag is the most useful feature for network
administrators. We were able to set up Diskeeper to defrag all of the
Windows NT-based PCs on our test network at certain times and on specific
days." He also appreciates Diskeeper's other most famous feature,
background defragmentation: "The defragmentation runs in the background, so
the end user never knows anything is happening." After an in-depth review
of a number of other features, he concludes the review with, "While there
are other Windows NT defrag products out there..., Diskeeper was the first
and is currently the only one to provide network scheduling and the ability
to defrag page files and directories." Mr. Rigney also noted,
"Interestingly, Windows 2000 will include a scaled-down version of
Diskeeper."
Diskeeper's latest feature, released with Diskeeper 4.0, is paging file
defragmentation. The Paging File in Windows NT serves as virtual memory
space on the disk, and is used to swap pages to and from memory to
supplement the use of physical RAM. However, because access to disk-based "memory"
is measured in milliseconds and physical RAM in nanoseconds, the paging file is
100,000 times slower than RAM and can become the most important performance bottleneck
on a Windows NT system. In addition, a paging file that is fragmented into multiple
fragments - due to being dynamically extended and reduced in size - can greatly
increase the amount of disk I/Os needed and significantly slow down the opening
and closing of applications. Defragmenting the paging file into a single location
not only speeds up paging performance, but provides more consolidated free space
for Diskeeper to defragment the whole system.
This new feature enhances Diskeeper's position as the leading provider of
Windows NT defragmentation technology. Diskeeper already has
"defragmentation exclusives", such as Directory File Consolidation, unique
and simple network controls, and its hallmark "Set It and Forget It"
functionality.
Buy Diskeeper 4.0 for all your Windows NT systems today! Contact your local reseller,
or order direct.
