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Article #78Re: Defrag for NTFS? Recommended tool?
From: Paul Gibson
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00
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Matt wrote: > We used Nortons and quickly changed to DK as the results were much better > and faster than Nortons I have Norton and Diskeeper 2.0 on my server. When I first installed Norton (before I got DK) I noticed that it did defragment the files fairly well, but it fragmented the freespace *very* badly. The largest free space was usually less than 1 MB (on an 24GB RAID 5 array with around 6-8GB of free space), and so almost every new file was badly fragmented, so Norton had to work even harder (and longer) to defrag the next time (I have it run every night). I was quite disappointed, so bought Diskeeper, which I like a lot better. It defrags the files nicely, and consolidates the freespace somewhat; it's still fragmented, but not *nearly* as badly as Norton left it. Overall, DK runs a lot faster, probably because new files aren't as fragmented. I'm replacing that server soon, so I bought DK 3.0, but haven't played with it much yet.
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