PerfectDisk 2008 Professional


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Really, no.

PerfectDisk has three modes

Defrag Only

Consolidate Free Space

SmartPlacement

Default is SmartPlacement mode. This mode will order by recently modified date, which means files that are often changed will be at the end of the disk. This means subsequent defrags are a lot quicker than the first one.

Not to mention, because it orders things different than your normal tool, of course the first run will take a while.

You also get to consider that (afaik) Diskeeper doesn't really care if your free space is consolidated or not. This does make things faster for the defragger, but when you add files to the drive or change files they're likely to get a lot more fragmented.

So no, it isn't slow at all, except on the first run.

All my individual partitions are 250 GB or lower although my total disk space spread across 3-4 physical disks is nearly 1 GB, so I don't run into Diskeeper Pro's volume size limitations. I would imagine that defragging a 1 TB+ partition is going to take quite a while! :D

Earlier PD versions also used to be much more resource-hungry compared to DK, from the comments on this thread, it appears that the new version is not much different. Well, anyways, everyone has their own preferences, and I may give PD9 a test-drive, but I am not planning on switching from DK for now. :)

All my individual partitions are 250 GB or lower although my total disk space spread across 3-4 physical disks is nearly 1 GB, so I don't run into Diskeeper Pro's volume size limitations. I would imagine that defragging a 1 TB+ partition is going to take quite a while! :D

Yeah, I just don't understand the limitation really. Apparently the enterprise version doesn't have it but who the hell should have to buy that version when Vista supports >2TB partitions and HD's are now being released in 1TB varients (making Home and premier useless without a repartiton). I realise it's probably to push enterprise sales, but they simply haven't followed the market and have had the size limitations for too long and now HD's have over taken them. I'd actually consider swapping despite the cost but not if the defrag app won't work for me. I'd rather pick my storage setup 1st and then get a defrag tool, not have the defrag tool dictate my HD setup.

I'm making a windows home server box in a month but and I'll definetly consider getting the Diskeeper version of that (no partition limits on home server edition either) if only due to the tighter integration with the servers control console than perfect disk. The 10 licenses of raxo + server one for $99 is also tempting but although I wont need more than 3 so I might pass it up.

Yeah when I was first in the market for a defragger I was looking at Diskeeper (as O&O 6 was much worse than I expected) but that artificial tier crap was the first thing that turned me off. Glad my friend pointed me to the alternative. :)

What they started to do with x64 support (only offering it on the higher tiers) would've made me furious. I think they corrected that though.

i would like to understand why people use this crap, yes, i've said crap.

This thing is SLOW as hell, takes ages only to analyze the drives and i wonder how long to defrag.

If someone want a advanced defrag tool, then there are NO better than Diskeeper.

I dont mind if it takes time to defrag. I generally let it run before I am going out or something like that.

I use it as I feel it does a better job at optimising than Diskeeper (definitely much better than O&O).

Wow, that's an original UI :rofl:

Lame..... and I bet if it were used by one of Microsoft's well known "enemies", Microsoft would hunt them down.

Apparently the Office 2007 "ribbon" interface can be licensed for use in other programs, providing they meet certain requirements.

Radish?

Wow, that's an original UI :rofl:

Lame..... and I bet if it were used by one of Microsoft's well known "enemies", Microsoft would hunt them down.

The ribbon interface is free to use, in fact MS would likely encourage it. Theres a few exceptions but, one of the main being that the product can't be a MS office competitor which is (one reason) why you haven't seen open office adopt it for Windows Builds.

When I was using XP I was using Diskeeper. It worked fine.

However it's too complicated to upgrade since you always need the previous version installed first.

Once I emailed Diskeeper regarding this kind of annoying upgrade they were nice and offered me the full setup as long as I call them giving the order numbers. Too much work and an extra international call cost. It's not reasonable.

In addition, the international site does not mention nothing regarding Vista upgrade and the needing of a full setup like the USA does.

In the Diskeeper USA web site I've found 2 prices for the same premier upgrade. Madness.

In resume I'm using Perfectdisk now and it seems to be working fine too tho O&O Defrag interface is far, far better and polished.

  • 3 weeks later...

Hah, that explains it

Defrag speed has been improved again. The development team has found new ways to better utilize memory and has also implemented a new algorithm for moving faster through fragmented and non-fragmented files.

Added new functionality to print statistics.

Added ability to resize GUI.

Improved ability to work with 800x600 screen resolutions.

Added ability to set a license key via Active Directory Group Policy.

Added the logging of a reason why a StealthPatrol schedule was suspended.

Added "Every X weeks" field to the Exchange weekly schedule.

Updated Help files.

We have run into a "gotcha" with Build 43/Service Pack 1 of PerfectDisk 2008 and have temporarily pulled it. You will not see this if you try to update now. A new build and service pack will be coming shortly.

I apologize for the inconvenience.

We have the new build in house and are planning to test today and through the weekend, and hope to post on Monday.

Thanks for your patience.

Joe

Obviously, all pulled from their blog.

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