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Diskeeper Home Server Trial Download « MS Windows Home Server — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:54:13 +0000

[...] September 26th, 2007 — Philip Churchill We looked at Diskeeper for Windows Home Server back in August (2007). A defrag tool for our home servers. Since then Diskeeper have been in touch and have given [...]

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:17:14 +0000

Sorry lee didn’t understand your question?

By: lee

lee — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:02:43 +0000

its only listing the first disk there tho unless there is more then one disk in there winder if it can defrag name less disks?

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:42:05 +0000

Thanks for your comments J. Russell and Michiel. It defiantly speeds up the Home Server. As with any PC after a certain amount of time it will defragment but due to the way WHS stores data a dedicated defrag tool has to be used. When released I plan to test it by imaging the server on two machines and defraging one and not the other and posting the results.

By: Michiel

Michiel — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:42:12 +0000

I have a couple of questions:
What does this more than WHS itself while it is “balancing storage”? Is it saving storage space? Is it boosting the speed? I am not convinced that it saves you time, money or speed things up. (Will it speed up backup recovery?)I’m waiting till you test it and compare WHS with this defrag tool and without. How do you plan to test thisn anyway?

By: J. Russell

J. Russell — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:15:18 +0000

This is a welcome addition to WHS. I use Diskeeper 2007 pro on my main desktop and it does a great job keeping fragmentation low with it’s automatic defrag. I hope the 2008 version is as good, if not better. Looking forward to it!