Jay-- Not too long after purchasing the program, DK (v7 I think) inexplicably scrambled a partition on one of my NT4 Engineering Workstations. Made absolute complete mincemeat of it, despite DK happily reporting that the defrag completed successfully.
Haven't used it on a production box since. :-) I did do some comparison testing back then on possible replacements for DK (using identical VMWARE clones), and OO seemed to perform much faster. OO's new (for then) STEALTH mode worked even with extremely limited free space--something that got DK into a repeating non-productive loop as I recall. But, as with all software and hardware, YMMV! :-) --Dev -----Original message----- From: "Jay Sudowski - Handy Networks LLC" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:10:57 -0700 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] spool / mailbox partition fragmentation > FWIW, I've had bad experiences with O&O defrag about 2 yrs ago on an > existing server that was badly fragmented. It couldn't even analyze the > drive - DK worked fine. Things may be different now, but that was my > experience then. > > -Jay > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dev > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:12 PM > To: Martin Schaible > Subject: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] spool / mailbox partition fragmentation > > I'll second that. There is NO comparison to Diskeeper. > > O&O is slick, lightning fast, and flexible. You will > never go back! > > Dev > > > Tuesday, April 12, 2005, 5:33:32 PM, you wrote: > > MS> Hi Bill, > > MS> Before you buy Diskeeper, you should look at > MS> www.oo-software.de. Their Defrag for servers > MS> is much more efficient then Diskeeper. > > > MS> > =========================> =================== > MS> Am Mittwoch, 13. April 2005 um 01:54 schrieben Sie: > > >> Thanks all for the advise! > > >> I have found a neat little utility (just a > >> script really) that allows you to > >> schedule defrags in win2000. > >> It's called Autodefrag, and I guess it's been around for awhile. > >> http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6268-1048744.html > >> I still plan to buy Diskeeper, but this works > >> great for the interm. I have > >> set up defrags every 3 hours per Pete's advise. Our system has enough > >> Processor/Memory overhead for it to run without > >> stopping any services. The > >> only hitch I've found is that it hangs if the > >> Defrag window is already open. > > >> Bill Green > >> dfn Systems > >> 505-622-7853 > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
