Disk Fragmentation…Raxco Performs!

In the last few months I think I’ve been through a stiff list of requirements with my development workstation. It has to mirror exactly a clients that I support and I have to keep it running lean and mean. A while back my client purchased VMWare Workstation 6.0 and entered into the Virtualization game. The specs on the servers we use should be impressive but the virtual performance we are getting is anything but head-turning. We are running on Dell PowerEdge 2900s with SAS 10,000 RPM drives and 8 gigs of RAM. We have resources for resources with dual quad-core processors and plenty of free processor. As we installed VMWare and got our VM’s up and running performance tanked in the VM and the host OS. I started by looking at page files and such and really couldn’t find anything wrong. Originally I had recommended we go with Disk Keeper Server Edition Standard as it seemed to do a good job for me. I kept running into a problem where no matter what I did it couldn’t get rid of all the fragmentation. As time wore on I kept getting more and more virtual memory errors and investigation lead me to suspect fragmentation in my page file of which Disk Keeper reported none.

A friend of mine had always been a staunch believer in Raxco’s Perfect Disk and in a bout of frustration I downloaded the trial. I ran an online defragmentation right after install and the effects were obvious immediately. I had 29 days left in a trial I didn’t need. I was ready to buy right then. I cannot tell you much about why Raxco would be so much better than Disk Keeper it just was. I had a boost in performance immediately. The hard part for me is that I was low on cash and didn’t have the money to buy their full license and so I used the trial for a few more weeks.

One day I decided I needed to see how much the full version was going to cost me so I went to the site and checked on the price. My chin hit the floor when I saw they were running a special through the end of September for the server edition at $99. Knowing a good deal when I see one I wasted no time and bought then and there. I plan on purchasing about 10 more licenses for clients I support as my excitement and belief in the product simply cannot be shaken. If you are in the market for a good disk defragmentation product I would strongly suggest you check them out. Their pricing is very fair and if you think you don’t have performance issues you should check it out. I guarantee that one pass of their product on your system is going to produce noticeable results.

- Rex