The purpose of this blog post is to provide some data about fragmentation on the Mac, that I've not seen researched/published elsewhere. Mac OSX has a defragmenter in the file system itself. Given Mac is open-source, we looked at the code. During a file open the files [...]
Last week I received an email via the blog that I thought would be good to publish. Graham, a Diskeeper user from the UK asked: "I have been advised that it is wrong to defrag an SSD hard drive. So is it safe to run Diskeeper now that I [...]
ExpressCache is a new, presently shipping, OEM product that we announced at the CES trade show last week. ExpressCache is a software storage performance solution that requires both an HDD and an SSD (smaller affordables drives are all that is needed). In short, ExpressCache effectively combines the two [...]
We have numerous partners and alliances in the Solid State drive (SSD) space that we interact with regularly. Conversations in related meetings with those allies continues to revolve around the same issue, overcoming performance bottle necks at the storage level. In attacking this problem to [...]
Later this month (Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 12:00pm Eastern / 9:00am Pacific), IT Analyst David Chernicoff and I will co-host a webinar covering the benefits and caveats of defragmenting SAN attached servers. Here is the abstract: As storage technologies have become more advanced there [...]
Last month we were a guest on a Microsoft-hosted webinar covering Windows 7, TRIM, and the continuing need for HyperFast. The presentation focused on the most current releases of SSDs from many of the top SSD vendors (Asax, Apacer, Kingston, Micron and OCZ), who were kind enough to provide us [...]
In anticipation of an upcoming presentation (March 10) from Microsoft promoting SSDs, and best practices for optimizing SSDs, is a HyperFast review by V3 (from last year). They tested HyperFast to see what benefit it would provide. Read it here.
I'll post more about this joint webinar (i.e. date/time, links) as we get closer to the date: “Windows 7 and Solid State Drives: Performance Myths and Facts Presented by Microsoft & Diskeeper Corp. What are the benefits of SSDs, above and beyond traditional hard drives? What [...]
Rumack: Fragmentation slows down SD Card performance! Striker: Surely you can't be serious. Rumack: I am serious... and don't call me Shirley. The word is slowly [but surely :-)] getting out that fragmentation affects NAND Flash storage - specifically free space fragmentation. The SD Association website is [...]
One of the questions that comes up on occasion is "should I defrag my iPod, my SD card, or my USB drives?". To answer that, let's first take a step back and make note that these drives (also known by other names such as thumb [...]