Diskeeper 7.0 Workstation Upgrade (5-pack)

List Price: $142.26

Customer Reviews:

Simply the best. [Posted on 2003-01-11]
I've been a user of Norton Utility Speedisk longer than some of you have been alive. I manage the IT department of a company that has laptop users that can't be away from their computers long enough for me to defrag them, so I thought I'd try Diskeeper because it defrags in the background.

Yes, the initial manual defragmentation is slower than Norton...BUT, it defragmented the drive on my laptop to 0.1% fragmentation, while Norton Speedisk never got below around 3%. Add to that the fact that I didn't have to exit out of any processes running in the background.

After doing the initial defragmentation, I set the Diskeeper to "Set it and forget it" and it works in the background. I don't notice any performance loss (running on Windows XP Pro). I'm using an eval copy (available from the company's web site) but I've ordered a 5-pack for my users.

Great software! [Posted on 2003-02-12]
Diskeeper performs as promised though it is not consolidating the directories (at least visually). I have not had any problems with speed during the "Set It And Forget It" as long as the priority is set to low or lowest. I have not had any problems with inconsistent disk messages either. That might be due to physical problems with the disk. Windows does not deal with hardware problems real well sometimes.
As for the "built-in" defragmenter, it is a scaled back version of Diskeeper. Diskeeper was developed by a guy that worked on the original development of NTFS for Windows. Speedisk is an O.K. product but I'd use Diskeeper anyday.

Buyer Beware [Posted on 2003-04-13]
Diskeeper may indeed be the best defrag utility ever, but it does have some highly frustrating attributes. Almost all of the automated features it has result in the computer being "taken over" by Diskeeper at the most inopportune times. Nothing like playing a game when suddenly Diskeeper decides its going to defrag the drive and zap almost 100% of the system resources for an undetermined period of time.

It works OK when defragging manually, but stear clear of any of its automatic or scheduled features!

Too much for too little [Posted on 2003-09-08]
$45 for a utility that does the same thing as the built-in WinXP defragmenter? I don't think so. The only real advantage this has over WinXPs defragmenter (which happens to be the "lite" version of Diskeeper) is that it can defragment the Windows paging file--and that can make a real performance difference, so here's what you do.

Download the 30-day trial version. Set your paging file to a fixed size (set the minimum and max to the recommended max size, or a little more). Install and run the trial version to defragment the paging file. Done. Let the trial expire, and use the built-in Windows defragmenter from now on.

Great Software [Posted on 2003-12-23]
Diskeeper is the best. My system was so slow before and when I installed and ran Diskeeper, the speed increase was amazing!

I made sure our IT guys at work put it on all our systems. Now we don't have to wait around for our systems - and I can get more done in less time.

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