PerfectDisk Vs. Diskeeper

[Perris Calderon]

Should slap Perris for spamming then

with a wet fish?

 

[Perris Calderon]

I prefer diskeeper for 9x systems although it takes up a lot more space than PD and it is very proprietory.(Jus try uninstalling all of it.)

I prefer PD for xp though.Much smaller footprint and is much friendlier and I think more proficient.

/agrees 100%

 

[ming]

with a wet fish?

That'd be nice.

 

[Perris Calderon]

ep...you should email greg hayes to let him know our new address...he only stops by once every couple of months, and he's gonna think we're gone

 

[RagnaroK]

Never thought perris was the spammer type... *shrugs* ahwell...
Anyway, I like PD over DK.

 

[onimkron]

DK does the job for me, although I've never used Perfect Disk.

 

[dreamliner77]

I use both. I do alot of audio editing which eats up massive amounts of diskspace. I use diskkeeper to to quickly throw back together the horribly fragmented files.

I use perfect disk for a more thorough defrag and to consolidate free space. I have found that perfect disk works better if you tweak what it belives is frequently accessed/never accessed, etc.

 

[Friend of Bill]

I am happy with PerfectDisk on my XP systems. Never any problem and PC Pitstop scores prove it an effective defragger. DiskState is also part of my disk maintenance arsenal.

 

[NetRyder]

I've used both, but prefer PerfectDisk 6 since it does a better and more thorough job (at least on my disk).

 

[chaos945]

I use DIRMS - Do it right Microsoft.

Which is also built into my Maintenance Routines.

 

[Perris Calderon]

chaos, that program claims it defrags files real time...this sounds pretty darned interesting to me

cold you tell me the resource overhead of that?...including cpu cycles and memory

thanx in advance

 

[chaos945]

That is Buzzsaw, I don't use it now but I used to. I defrag on a schedule using my Maintenance Routines (DIRMS built in) everyday, so I figure having Buzzsaw running in the background is just overkill.

For me Buzzsaw was about 3-4mb in the background running IDLE priority, it only uses cycles when the CPU is idle. Both DIRMS and Buzzsaw are very good defragmenters IMO.

 

[NetRyder]

I think I'm going to give Buzzsaw a shot...looks interesting.

 

[Perris Calderon]

I think I'm going to give Buzzsaw a shot...looks interesting.

looks like it's using 6mb's memory

 

[NetRyder]

5040K RAM, 7392K VM on my box.

 

[Perris Calderon]

buzz saw is pretty much worthless

I had my box sitting idle for about 3 hours and buzzsaw defragged all of 150 of the files it monitored, 1000 left to go

not at all worth the realtime memory consumption, though to be fair, I didn't notice any change in performance while it runs

 

[chaos945]

If you have your drives completely defragmented using the algorithms Buzzsaw/DIRMS use I'll bet you'd see better results.

Just a thought, would be interesting to see if you notice a difference.

 

[Henyman]

hhhhhmmm it could work in long term perris, it just needs to catch up. more of a preventor i think.

 

[chaos945]

More FYI than anything this page file/Registry hive defragmenter is useful as well.

Another great tool from SysInternals.

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[Perris Calderon]

hhhhhmmm it could work in long term perris, it just needs to catch up. more of a preventor i think.

not really henyman, this program only defrags files that are downloaded while it's on.

so it would hardly ever catch up with itself.