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The Fragmented Sandwich

The title is about a couple of related formulas that set the precedent for a hypotheses that defragmented hard drives are "greener". P = W / t where W = F * Δs The first formula is defined as Power is equal to Work divided [...]

2008-09-18T20:34:00-04:00General|0 Comments

Undelete 2009 is now available!

Undelete 2009 (6.0) has just been released. Here is a list of new and principal features. For more information, go to Undelete. NEW! InvisiTasking technology - enables Undelete tasks to operate in the background with zero overhead. NEW! SecureDelete 2.0 - provides the option to [...]

2022-01-20T19:21:57-05:00General|0 Comments

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!

Anyone ever heard a software engineer tell that story? Oddly enough, fragmentation was actually introduced to solve a major problem. In the slim chance ;-) you are actually interested as to why fragmentation was "invented", you can check out these couple of pages. The e-book [...]

2022-02-07T20:20:42-05:00General|0 Comments

Recession-proof software?

Diskeeper is an interesting software product in the variety of benefits that it provides users. Corporations purchase Diskeeper for any number of reasons; better performance, improved reliability, reduce help desk calls, etc... When companies are prosperous and want to take all measures to get every [...]

2008-07-07T13:07:00-04:00General|0 Comments

Up Around the Bend

Microsoft is around the corner from an exciting new release, perhaps as compelling as Windows Server 2008 itself - the contender to VMware's hypervisor dominance (ESX). Hyper-V (a Windows Server 2008 server role) has wrapped up and is ready to go to market (RTM - [...]

2022-03-30T13:57:46-04:00General|0 Comments

Installing Diskeeper on Server Core

Here are the basic steps to installing Diskeeper on a Windows 2008 Server Core system and how you can access the full Diskeeper UI remotely. 1. Turn off the Firewall on the Server Core system. (The default Firewall settings on the Server Core system will [...]

2008-06-19T18:11:00-04:00General|0 Comments