Perfect Disk 7.0

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PerfectDisk® Version 7.0 delivers speed, thoroughness, and ease-of-use for all Windows® home, small business, and large enterprise users. The only disk defragmenter certified by Microsoft® for Windows 2000 and Windows Server® 2003, PerfectDisk is designed for today's largest disk drives. If you are serious about disk defragmentation, optimization, and free space consolidation, you'll find PerfectDisk meets your high demands and requirements.

What's New:

20% faster than v6
brand new user interface
support for mount points
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New capability to schedule defragmentation runs for specific drives within an Organizational Unit. This gives enterprises increased flexibility and control over how and when their resources are utilized.

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(3 replies) #1 NyaR on 13 Nov 2004 - 20:22

ive had perfectdisk 7 on my computer for like 2 weeks already

#1.1 dev/null on 13 Nov 2004 - 20:54

must have been a beta then, final was just released last week

#1.2 wulfshayde on 14 Nov 2004 - 21:01

Its really annoying how the first comment on any new software news is always someone saying how its old news.

#1.3 g33kb0y on 15 Nov 2004 - 19:35

*reaches in pocket, takes out a quarter and a dime, hands to NyaR*

(2 replies) #2 GShapiro on 13 Nov 2004 - 20:23

The best defragger, hands down. The only one that uses the layout.ini file in XP to place files.

#2.1 moeburn on 14 Nov 2004 - 14:36

Except for Norton Speeddisk...

#2.2 Jsu on 14 Nov 2004 - 18:16

Norton! Fool. Perfect Disk is way better just check out the features.

(4 replies) #3 ascullycom on 13 Nov 2004 - 20:35

I prefer Diskeeper the set it and forget it screensaver mode is perfect

#3.1 bangbang023 on 13 Nov 2004 - 21:48

yeah, that's what I use. Does perfect disk have something like this?

#3.2 jn1167 on 15 Nov 2004 - 15:51

I actually have both of those installed. I love Diskeepers Screensaver mode. Perfect Disk is the only one approved by Microsoft and I is really a nice preice of software. It works faster than Diskeeper and has a ton of really cool features but I gotta tell you, that Screensaver mode makes Diskeeper look just a little better.

I hope that they add that to Perfect Disk ASAP!!!!

#3.3 ev0| on 15 Nov 2004 - 21:41

I don't think they should add it to perfect disk. Too many additional processess running in background. Just set it to schedule to defrag your pc every night and wake up your computer from standby/suspend mode if it has to, voila ! perfectdisk

#3.4 Grope for Luna on 17 Nov 2004 - 08:52

Make a scheduled task that runs after a certain period of idle time and runs the command line defragger.

#4 slimy on 13 Nov 2004 - 20:55

man finally i got them to put this up

#5 caerma on 13 Nov 2004 - 20:58

Thanks for the info...

#6 JakeM741 on 13 Nov 2004 - 21:29

thanks for the heads up

(3 replies) #7 CheeseCow on 13 Nov 2004 - 22:03

It is funny how it is 20% faster, but they don't say how. I take it the data is still moving at the same speed; someone got any insight as to how they managed to speed it up that much?

#7.1 Dessimat0r on 13 Nov 2004 - 22:06

Perhaps it has better algorithms for data movement?

#7.2 CheeseCow on 13 Nov 2004 - 22:33

Sure, but they could explain it in a little more detail if you ask me. If it uses 20% less CPU I really couldn't care less, but if it has better logic which means less moving files back-and-forth then it is good.

I am wondering how optimized it is is possible to get a HD, if you could give the CPU an hour to figure it out, would it be possible to speed it up even more? Like the Windows 98 fragmenter which actually fragmented files to place them "as they were read" from disk...

#7.3 slimy on 13 Nov 2004 - 23:32

i doubt the majority of the ppl they are selling this 2 won't give a flying ****

only us geeks are kindof curious

#8 norky on 14 Nov 2004 - 00:37

i like it all except for the interface update.

#9 GShapiro on 14 Nov 2004 - 01:16

Press release

Read the Press release. It explains what the 20% is all about.

#10 Hurmoth on 14 Nov 2004 - 01:46

Bought it yesterday... so far I like it better then Diskeeper!

(3 replies) #11 Dirtie on 14 Nov 2004 - 02:46

Would you suggest using this on my Windows XP system rather than the Microsoft one?

#11.1 slimy on 14 Nov 2004 - 05:24

yup

#11.2 cork1958 on 14 Nov 2004 - 10:59

ANY defragger is better than the Windows one. This one, or version 6 even, is better than any of them also. That set it and forget it crap in Diskeeper is a waste. Hate things running in the background. Does Diskeeper work on Windows 9x sysems. If so, I bet it causes more hang ups and crashes than it's worth. Would on XP also, if XP wasn't so good at memory managemnet.

#11.3 bangbang023 on 14 Nov 2004 - 17:17

Set it and Forget it is awesome. I never have to manually defrag. Also, statements like "I bet" completely invalidate your argument. You have no evidence, instead, you are just making random claims.

(8 replies) #12 Caleb on 14 Nov 2004 - 16:00

And how exactly is it better than Diskeeper 9?

I was curious that from reading their PDF PerfectDisk seems like the ultimate defragging solution.

After spending 3-4 hours on testing it and diskeeper it comes out that their PDF file is a big blown out lie.

I actually wrote them a big long letter telling me what I'd done.

Long story short, PerfectDisk takes more time to defrag, and it also raises the fragmentation level.

I was very disappointed. The interface is rubbish, it doesn't even give you easy access to the data.
The Offline Defrag crashed my windows bootup process once.

All in all, I had a horrible experience with this defragger.

Next time, don't believe in everything you read, especially when it's the same company making the benchmarks.

#12.1 xinok on 14 Nov 2004 - 16:36

I've tried it before, Diskeeper is faster, but I think Perfectdisk is a more effective defragmenter.
btw, not to flame you or anything, just correct you, its "defragment", not just "defrag". Lots and lots of people make this mistake.

#12.2 Radium on 14 Nov 2004 - 21:41

How do you see if the fragmentation have increased? Diskepper?
How do you compare the two solutions? Did you restore the data?
You have to test the software on equal conditions.

#12.3 slimy on 15 Nov 2004 - 01:14

if perfectdisk speeds up my pc and diskeeper doesn't then i'm good

#12.4 Mav Phoenix on 15 Nov 2004 - 08:38

Sounds awfully familiar to what people were saying about Diskeeper 8 and how it destroyed their systems. I have to think some percentage must be user error.

#12.5 Caleb on 15 Nov 2004 - 13:32

Look, it's not like I have a test system ready just for PerfectDisk, but I was anxious to test it.

I ran Diskeeper 9:
Diskeeper has completed a defragmentation run on this volume and there
remain 6 fragmented files and/or directories and 35 excess fragments.
(There were 952 excess fragments before the defragmentation run, and
now there are 96% fewer.)

I've also ran an Analyze in PerfectDisk and it confirmed those results.
After running PCMark 04 again I've gained 100 points in the HDD test.

Now I've decided to run PerfectDisk 7 to let it try to finish the
defragment (since by the feature list it only needs 5% of free space, and
my drive has 9%).

After running PerfectDisk the drive had 32 fragmented files and 330
excess fragments !!!

Then I decided to run PCMark 04 again, and now I got a -200 points
compared to the previous result ! (another performance decline).
The only thing improved with PerfectDisk was the largest free space area.

#12.6 ev0| on 15 Nov 2004 - 21:28

I don't doubt your results but I would venture to say that any *mark from futuremark is not really an accurate benchmark. Try using something else to confirm.

#12.7 Caleb on 16 Nov 2004 - 17:58

Look, a mark is a mark.
No matter what bechnamrk is being made.

Plus you can see for yourself that PerfectDisk INCREASED the fragmentation level!

#12.8 Mav Phoenix on 17 Nov 2004 - 00:03

^Since they're using different methods for reorganizing the data what the hell do you expect? Try running it for longer that a single use.

(1 reply) #13 YeCKeL on 14 Nov 2004 - 18:56

How dose it stack up to O&O Defrag?

#13.1 slimy on 15 Nov 2004 - 01:13

imo better

#14 CCtaylor on 14 Nov 2004 - 21:40

I must say this is very very good....CC

#15 Mav Phoenix on 15 Nov 2004 - 08:40

I like it a lot better then the rest. It's smart placement system rocks and it can do the defrag in one pass and get it all the way down. It was already fast for me with 6 and now with the 20% speed boost it's just getting better. 10/10

#16 Olden on 15 Nov 2004 - 15:33

makes my puter faster than any other defrag tool, cheers Perfect Disk!

#17 ev0| on 15 Nov 2004 - 21:33

I say the top two are diskeeper and perfect disk. I've used em all. Diskeeper 8 was very very good, and i'm sure 9 is also just as good if not better, although i haven't used it. But I really like Perfect Disk. It has a different system for defragmentation (layout.ini) that i subjectively feel speeds up apps better. It's also very clean and simple, as is diskeeper. I'd rate both an A, leaving which one to use up the the users preference. I'd trust and use both

#18 Ficman on 15 Nov 2004 - 21:40

Thanks for the Headsup...

#19 paulhaskew on 16 Nov 2004 - 01:05

I really like it... makes my computer boot up faster...

I give 4.5 stars to this product... skipping on the other .5 because I really dislike the new gui... the analyze section on a large harddrive is really hard to see at 1024*768...

#20 1o9 on 16 Nov 2004 - 03:33

I moved from Diskeeper 8 to PerfectDisk 6 quite a few months ago, and never really looked back.

PerfectDisk 7 seems to be even more efficent, faster and the new GUI will help the new users understand the software much easier. Though it's not much of an improvement graphically.

(1 reply) #21 jester1x on 16 Nov 2004 - 09:53

The built in defragmenter in Windows is actually based on diskeeper. You could call it the "lite" version. I prefer Diskeeper 9. Although, I use Perfect Disk 6 on my laptop.

The screensaver mode of Diskeeper is ingenious.

#21.1 mrbester on 17 Nov 2004 - 10:08

QUOTE

The built in defragmenter in Windows is actually based on diskeeper

Yep, from 2000 upwards (like the hideous cut-down version of Central Point they put in Win 95). Hence it's a little strange that Diskeeper (Execsoft were the first to do a defragment utility for Windows NT, neatly thumbing the nose at the implied notion that it didn't need one) isn't certified. Was there a falling out between Execsoft and Microsoft?

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