![]() ![]() ![]() How many servers do you manage and how much load are they under? If you have more than a few servers (or just a few under a lot of stress) and they don’t have a window from 5 PM through 9 AM to do backups, defrag, and everything else, you may very well consider Diskeeper Server’s functionality well worth the price of admission. At $349.95 (and $50 extra if you need the HyperFast functionality for SSDs), it is much pricier than using Windows’ built in defrag or perhaps a desktop grade defragger. The fact is, while a desktop can defrag once a day or week in the evening, at best that is when the server is backing up, and at worst, the server never catches a break for a long running, resource intensive defragging session.ĭiskeeper Server is still an expensive product. Likewise, the features that Diskeeper does have, like their i-FAAST system (optimizes the defragging to match drive usage), IntelliWrite (changes how Windows writes files to disk, in order to keep fragmentation from occurring), and InvisiTasking (reduces resource usage for automatic defragging), all felt like a bit too much in a “typical business desktop,” but I see them as major features in a 24/7 server environment. System administrators need the control or else they waste far too much of their time. When I looked at Diskeeper Professional, I doubted the usefulness of the central management and monitoring. Diskeeper Server is the first product that we have taken a look at so far that really addresses this end of the market, and its only competition is PerfectDisk Server. But what is does mean is that they lack the features that system administrators really need in server products, like central management and monitoring. Does that mean that they will not work on a server? Not at all. However, each one that we have looked at so far has not been designed with servers in mind. The market for disk defragmentation products is pretty full, and we’ve reviewed an awful lot of them here at TechRepublic. Complexity: If you are serious about getting the most out of Diskeeper, you need to take some time to learn about all of the various features and decide which ones you need to use on which volumes.Optional SSD Technology: If your servers use solid state disks, you can add the HyperFast technology for a $50 up charge, which makes Diskeeper work better with SSDs and reduces read/write cycles.The InvisiTasking system reduces resource contention, and IntelliWrite changes how data is written to disk, to prevent fragmentation up front. Beyond Basic Defrag: Diskeeper Server can defrag critical system files during boot that would ordinarily be skipped, and can monitor drive usage to tweak defragmentation algorithms.The ability to defragment multiple disks at a time, which is not useful for the typical desktop, is very important for a server. ![]()
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