We've been heavily involved in solid state storage performance and reliability technology for some time - we're convinced it is the future of high-performance storage. Recent announcements by Baidu and Google to "go SSD" on servers are evidence of enterprise commitment to NAND Flash. And [...]
We've been running a field test on the new boot-time defrag engine for the past 6 or so weeks. We apologize for any delay on releasing this, but it is due to major improvements of the code and making sure that it is flawless. The [...]
“A group of MVPs have been discussing disk wiping. Could you please provide more details of exactly how your wipe is performed and how it meets NSA/DOD standards?†Undelete 2009 uses the following DoD overwrite patterns: 1. Bit pattern #1 = Any Bit Pattern, such [...]
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 [...]
For the past 6 years John Iasiuolo has been running the Computer Outlook Radio show. The program broadcasts "LIVE" Monday thru Friday from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Pacific Time and "LIVE" on Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time on the FOX [...]
Diskeeper Corporation has made a few hints at the need for optimization technology for NAND Flash drives for some time. We now have a particular iteration of that technology completed and need help testing it. We're looking for current Diskeeper customers interested in a first [...]
This has been a popular question this past week, since the release of Undelete 2009. Here's the full Q&A on the subject: Can you wipe an entire drive with SecureDelete 2.0? In other words, you plan to give the computer away, say as a donation, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We have a new version of the Diskeeper Boot-time defragmenter very close to release. We're looking for some current Diskeeper 2008 customers interested in testing this new "defrag engine". We spent significant time and energy re-designing this feature from the ground up, and are excited [...]