Re: Disk defragmentation - is it worth it?

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:10:26 +0000, Andy Lee <andy.lee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

:On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:26:42 +0000, Odie Ferrous
:<Odie_ferrous@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:
:>Rob Nicholson wrote:
:>>
:>> I'm currently writing our IT strategy for the next five years - finger in
:>> the air time. This includes a serious upgrade (for us) of our file server
:>> and Exchange & SQL server. Our current file server has oodles of free disk
:>> space (60%) but I'm looking at all options. We've tried out Diskeeper and
:>> PerfectDisk in the past but to be honest, haven't noticed that much
:>> degradation in responsiveness even with a doubling in the number of users.
:>>
:>> We live in a Citrix terminal server environment so most of our dense traffic
:>> is over a gigabit backbone.
:>>
:>> So should I include disk defragmentation tools in the budget and plan? Is it
:>> worth it? I know that if you read the Diskeeper website, you get the
:>> impression you'd be mad not to have an automatic defragmenter. But then
:>> again, Diskeeper marketing has always been like that.
:>
:>Norton (Symantec) are also good at marketing. Trouble is, their
:>products can seriously damage a hard drive, requiring data recovery
:>services.
:>
:>Under MS DOS and early versions of Windows (3.11 as an example)
:>defragmentation helped a lot.
:>
:>Under Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 I doubt there's much mileage.
:>
:>Some will disagree, no doubt - but whatever you do, don't install Norton
:>/ Symantec products (any of them - anti-virus included) on your systems.
:>
:>
:>Odie
:The only one worth anything is Ghost all the rest have either
:descended into a morass of bloatware or were just plain garbage from
:the beginning e.g. "Speeddisk"

The fact is that Symantec did not develop Ghost. It was developed by a
couple of guys (IIRC) in Australia or New Zealand and Symantec bought
them out. I too have a considerable amount of mistrust of Norton,
however I am using NAV 2003 and Winfax Basic, which came in Norton
Systemworks 2001. Winfax irritates me, but I can usually get it to work.

.

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