PerfectDisk 2008 Professional


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PerfectDisk 2008 Professional and PerfectDisk 2008 Server Editions

A brand new user interface to enhance usability and improve the user experience, including ribbons, new wizards, new graphs and more.

Enhancements to the popular Single Defrag option, including a new Selected Files Defrag capability to defragment selected files rather than the entire drive.

New unattended background defragmentation (StealthPatrol) used when scheduling is not convenient. PerfectDisk provides the most flexible and comprehensive defragmentation options available today.

New free space management capabilities including a Space Explorer graphical drive view and, with the Professional edition, a duplicate file remover.

New Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) compatibility mode provides enhanced defragmentation of VSS environments.

Reduced memory footprint for improved performance.

Support for the exFAT file system for improved flash drive support.

Vista SP1 (Professional edition) and Windows Server 2008 (Server edition) ready.

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Source: Inhouse & Raxco

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Lets see if this is only a "visual" improvement or if Raxco improve the S.L.O.W. speed of their application. :shiftyninja:

It's very fast to launch and the defragmentation time seemed at least as fast as the previous version.

No application speed problems here, running Vista SP1 Refresh on a P4 3.0GHz Single Core.

My only complaint is that the Ribbon bar is not configurable and not sizable, it's just too big and the '2008' Orb is a gimmick.

which is better, this or diskkeeper? Im in the market for a new defrag program seeing as O&O 10 is a pile of $%!* under vista 32bit :(

I have both licensed. But I prefer Diskkeeper, I thought I would change to PerfectDisk but I don't really like the look of the application.

which is better, this or diskkeeper? Im in the market for a new defrag program seeing as O&O 10 is a pile of $%!* under vista 32bit :(

Well it is an opinion....

As far as I can tell diskeeper is the kind of program you set and forget and it is running constantly when you turn on your pc. Perfectdisk is the program if you click "defragment", you want it to defrag the ENTIRE drive. Diskeeper never defrags the whole drive (well it didn't used to) when you clicked defragment, it is just kind of constantly running and just keeps everything defraged over time rather than with one single scan like perfectdisk.

which is better, this or diskkeeper? Im in the market for a new defrag program seeing as O&O 10 is a pile of $%!* under vista 32bit :(

I can't say for a fact which is better but PerfectDisk is what I bought a few years ago. I've been very happy with it. Diskeeper by the way is basically what ships with XP, albeit an?older?and very stripped down version.

Thnx for the last few replies, apologies to to the OP, didnt want to hijack the thread :) Just that this looks pretty good compared to O&O and wanted people opinions :)

oops ... OP replied to my question :)

It's very fast to launch and the defragmentation time seemed at least as fast as the previous version.

No application speed problems here, running Vista SP1 Refresh on a P4 3.0GHz Single Core.

My only complaint is that the Ribbon bar is not configurable and not sizable, it's just too big and the '2008' Orb is a gimmick.

I've tried PD some time ago (when i've posted a recent version here on the BPN), it was SLOW as hell, slow analyzing, slow defragmenting.

And why should i buy this when i have Diskeeper licensed and it is much faster? Diskeeper is the best i've tested so far (defraggler, ultra defrag, jkdefrag, windows defrag, wincontig...).

It doesn't really seem slow at all to me. Though I don't really sit there and watch it the whole time, usually run it overnight or when I'm away. What's the rush? Of course if you own a Diskeeper license obviously it wouldn't make sense to buy this. If you don't own either yet though, give them both a try and see which you like. As I said I picked PerfectDisk but that's just my opinion.

The Diskeeper engine is not actually in XP. A version of Diskeeper was licensed by MS a long time ago (NT4 era?) but it has no bearing on the current product.

The only real comparison I've seen available that isn't marketing driven is over here http://donnedwards.openaccess.co.za/2007/0...ootout-all.html Note, of course it doesn't include PD2008 because it wasn't out.

I love his seperate bits on Diskeeper 2008 later -

http://donnedwards.openaccess.co.za/2007/1...mpressions.html

http://donnedwards.openaccess.co.za/2007/1...reliminary.html

http://donnedwards.openaccess.co.za/2007/1...ro-premier.html

Of course, he also has this to say:

The PerfectDisk blog talks about the new version of PerfectDisk "coming very soon", and today I received an email thanking me for my participation in the beta program. I can't say anything more about it because I signed a non-disclosure agreement. I will be writing a review for publication soon.

Anyway, here's the part of the comparison article about Diskeeper 2007 -

http://donnedwards.openaccess.co.za/2007/0...eeper-2007.html

Glowing reviews to be sure ;) I'm expecting much from PD2008.

I have no intentions of switching either. I have Dk 2008 pro on my new Vista Home Premium laptop and I couldn't be more satisfied. To cut a long story short, I prefer DK's low resource usage approach to defragging; IMHO some of the stuff PD does is overkill without much benefit in real life. But to each his own. :yes:

As for that blog, yeah, I've seen it before and some of his criticisms are valid, but I am unsure about his neutrality and bias (examine some of the specific details, and you'll know what I mean). IIRC, a few months ago, he even had perfectdisk discount codes on that blog

As for that blog, yeah, I've seen it before and some of his criticisms are valid, but I am unsure about his neutrality and bias (examine some of the specific details, and you'll know what I mean). IIRC, a few months ago, he even had perfectdisk discount codes on that blog

Seriously...wouldn't you promote a product you respect? I would.

And besides, he claims that a free product is better than PD, so he's not exactly biased in PDs direction overall. He simply says that PD8 was the best COMMERCIAL defragger.

PD2008 of course is not represented, but I'll be interested to see what he has to say about it.

as a registered user, i've just got the upgrade key and download. it is much faster than version 8, but *why o why* have they used the ribbon interface?

i thought the whole idea of the ribbon interface was a way to put loads and loads of options into context sensitive tabs (al a ms office), perfectdisk only has a couple of buttons, it makes the interface quite clunky. sure, it *looks* better than the previous version (which looked like it was running under the classic win 98 theme), but the ribbon interface is just not appropriate for a defrag tool - all those options could be stuck in menus saving a shed load of screen space.

but like i said earlier, overall though speed improvements.

Boy who can tell? I already downloaded porn but I'm sure there's plenty more.

Since this thread is about PD2008, PD2008 is a valid assumption, though...

Hi Craig,

The much anticipated "official" release date of the new PerfectDisk 2008 family of products is only days away. Because you are covered by our upgrade protection policy, you are entitled to the free upgrade to PerfectDisk 2008 Professional and we wanted to get it into your hands a little early. Everything that you need, including your permanent license key, is provided at the bottom of this email.

I love Raxco.

Excellent. 64 bit native version (as I suspected, given that Rx Suite had a 64 bit native build) less confusing layout (don't have settings in three different places) it works fine with Windowblinds (where PD8 had an obscure setting to mesh better) and the PD version of 'set and forget'...

I love it, but hey, I knew that before I even ran it.

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