Diskeeper 2007

Author: floppybootstomp
Published on: 19-04-2007
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Performance

Performance Continued...

Here we see a screen shot showing my two hard disks, 'Shiny Beast' the RAID 0 array and 'Clear Spot' a Samsung 250Gb SATA II drive.

A more detailed shot showing hard drives:

C Drive before defrag, the red sectors are fragmented files:

C Drive after defragmentation. The initial defrag took 11 minutes, further defrags performed on average every three days took around two minutes.

A more detailed screen shot of C Drive after defrag.

F Drive prior to defrag:

F Drive following defrag. Initial run was 15 minutes, thereafter around 3 minutes.

So Diskeeper 2007 would appear to do a good job in a quick time. I had been using Diskeeper V7.0 from around 2001 for years and this new version is so much quicker and with a much slicker interface.

The question still remains whether defragmentation actually improves disk performance though. My own experience is that it does. Having said that, I had to let my hard disk fragment for at least six months before I actually noticed any lack of performance. De-fragging did actually put a 'sparkle' back into my system. And if Microsoft didn't consider defragmentation to be a desired thing they wouldn't have included the function within Windows. And whilst I've mentioned Windows, it's worth noting that Diskeeper will defrag your drives in a fraction of the time Microsoft's built-in software takes to do it.