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Article #76Re: Defrag for NTFS? Recommended tool?
From: Paul Williams
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00
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We found DiskKeeper to be quite efficient except that it will not run on one of our servers with very large databases. DiskKeeper have not been able to resolve this. Norton SpeedDisk has had no problems at all. On Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:32:38 +1000, "Matt" <spamsuxmrees@accsoft.com.au> wrote: >Diskeeper is also very good for all versions of NT. > >You can download a copy from: > >http://www.diskeeper.com > >We used Nortons and quickly changed to DK as the results were much better >and faster than Nortons > >Regards, > >Matt > > >Stan wrote in message <6v90rj$70c$1@winter.news.erols.com>... >>HI >>Another very good defrag utility is PERFECTDISK NT, you could download a >>trial version from WWW.RAXCO.COM. >> >> >>Chris Phillipo wrote in message <35F19851.ED07067@cbnet.ns.ca>... >>>Ed H. wrote: >>>> >>>> How could defragging make the situation worse? >>>> >>>> "William W. Plummer" <wplummer@V-sign.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >I don't like the Norton product, although I don't have a better >>>> >recommendation. I found that repeatedly running defrag doesn't >improve >>>> >things. In fact, sometimes it makes the situation worse. Try >>t! --Bill >>> >>>If you run defrag while other things are going on, the increased I/O >>>does indeed cause more fragmantation than when you started. >>> >>>-- >>>__________________________________ >>>Remove "delme" from email address to reply. >> >> >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 115135,a0d6565a0865548 X-Google-Attributes: gid115135,public X-Google-Thread: fb9cd,a0d6565a0865548 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb9cd,public X-Google-Thread: fb96d,a0d6565a0865548 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb96d,public X-Google-Thread: 104ed6,a0d6565a0865548 X-Google-Attributes: gid104ed6,public X-Google-Thread: fa335,a0d6565a0865548 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa335,public From: paulwi@cheltenham.gov.uk (Paul Williams) Subject: Re: Defrag for NTFS? Recommended tool? Date: 1998/10/06 Message-ID: <361af56b.9727847@news-reader.bt.net> X-Deja-AN: 398222889 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <MPG.fea19ae1e524bf49896ea@news.frii.com> <MPG.fea1c1832bed84e98969a@news1.newscene.com> <35d35c2e.212563850@news.magmacom.com> <35d91c0c.34686859@207.68.144.14> <35d7617f.397010657@news.magmacom.com> <6r63ud$mjj$1@birch.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <6rb0e1$1ul4@sandy.max-net.com> <35D932F2.73C73401@netcom.ca> <6si3is$ruj$1@supernews.com> <35ef2273.40120920@msnews.microsoft.com> <35F19851.ED07067@cbnet.ns.ca> <6v90rj$70c$1@winter.news.erols.com> <6vbrtq$e57$1@toto.tig.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Cheltenham Borough Council MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 11:49:13 BST Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt,cis.winnt.general,at.tuwien.os.winnt