Diskeeper 2007

Author: floppybootstomp
Published on: 19-04-2007
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Opinions and Observations

Thoughts on Diskeeper 2007

When you get right down to it, Diskeeper is a software program for defragmenting your hard drive. And that's it. I do feel that this software does a good job but the interface has, in my opinion, way too many controls and options. Sure, it looks nice, but do we really need all that information and options? I could almost accuse it of being bloatware but as Diskeeper doesn't appear to affect system performance I guess all those bells and whistles are harmless.

Running Invisitasking - and in my case with the Pro Premier edition, running I-Faast - didn't hit system performance either. Diskeeper Invisitasking will, as I mentioned earlier, give way for other programs when you're using them. I found that this was a quite delicate feature. How was that? Well, I just couldn't get Invisitasking to run and I wondered why not.

Crunching (Distributed Computing)

The answer lay with the Crunching program I'm running, crunching proteins to attempt to find an AIDS cure using WCG and BOINC software. Once I disabled BOINC, Diskeeper's Invisitasking kicked in.

With BOINC running:

With BOINC switched off:

So, all you crunchers out there, you probably won't be able to take advantage of this feature. To see how well the auto feature worked I did switch my crunching program off for 48 hours. After this time my C drive was partially defragmented from its previous condition, but not fully. I'd guess that full auto defrag would take about a week.

Conclusion

Final thoughts and conclusion

Overall, I like Diskeeper and think it's an excellent piece of Software. It knocks spots off of Windows' own defrag tool (I'm currently using Win XP Pro with SP2) and it's very satisfying to see nice clean hard drives after running it. For the price, Home Edition Diskeeper 2007 is good value for money, it hasn't really changed its price much in seven years but the product has improved. And if you like the look of the extra features by all means go for the Pro Premier edition.

If you're crunching it really doesn't matter that you won't be able to crunch and use the Invisitasking feature at the same time, the manual defrag does a fine job. And personally I'd rather manually defrag anyway.

I personally feel that defragmentation does help keep your system running as new and Diskeeper performs the task admirably. You can download Diskeeper 2007 from their site here  and as I mentioned earlier, the basic home edition is £23.74