There’s nothing like a good, fake cuss word to get you through the day — and help you avoid censorship. Battlestar Galactic had “Frak.” But The VAR Guy prefers his own, home-grown cuss: Frag. It’s inspired by Diskeeper Corp. Here’s why.
The next time you’re working a help desk, and your users or customers call to complain about sluggish boot times or pathetic server performance, just say: “What the Frag is wrong?” Actually, frag — or a fragmented hard drive — may be the problem.
In fact, a new server management study — sent to The VAR Guy by Diskeeper — suggests that defrag and antivirus software are now considered equally important by network managers. When asked, “what software do you consider vital to have on your servers?”:
- 48 percent of network administrators said “Antivirus/Symantec”
- 45 percent said “Defrag/Diskeeper”
The VAR Guy doesn’t know who sponsored the research, nor is he particularly concerned about it. He was just looking for an excuse to throw his personal cuss word — Frag — around the Web a bit. He hopes Frag goes viral, like this blog.
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I can attest to this, machines/servers that have been running for years with Windows will notoriously get slow over time, unless one schedules and runs defrag utilities. I can think of ~20 instances where machines were completely in red as opposed to blue, you tell the person to come back in a few hours or you will have it fixed by the next day. To their amazement, it’s like a new machine all over again.
Diskeeper is nice software, as you can set it to defrag at boot. Another one I always use is Jkdefrag, which is free. One thing I tell people, is never fill your drives above 90%, if you do this will effect your defragging utility ability to reorder everything.
One other thing, linux does need to be defragged as it is very efficient.
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We’ve been using Diskeeper on our servers with good results. Never tried JK defrag though.
Auto defragmentation for the servers and workstations is very useful. Unlike the scheduled defrag route of old, it saves on server downtime, manpower and costs. If the machines are able to autonomously ‘maintain’ their own disks to an extent atleast, it ought to preserve system performance (assuming no other problems) and reduce helpdesk calls.
Re post #1 above:
Good news: Diskeeper can now defrag in as low as 1% free space (as of version 2008). So drive space is no longer a problem. This was an enterprise request. But SMB can benefit from the technology in all editions.
Derek: Hmmmmm, thanks for the update. I will have to try that some time…
You bet, Doug. Just download the trial ware off the web site. Few realize it, but it’s actually a full version for 30 days.
So you’ll have a chance to see this new feature in action.
PS. I know the secret identity of the VAR Guy. Or is it really a VAR Gal? Hmmm…The conspiracy theories rage on…