"I have no problem with giving Diskeeper references. Here are certain factors that have made us continue to use Diskeeper all these years:
1. Easy to install on a single PC and/or across the network using the Administrator.
2. Easy to configure (for automatic defrag) and/or to operate manually.
3. Have experienced less hard drive crashes and people complaining about how slow the PC is.
4. Each version of Diskeeper is better than the previous one. MFT defrag is now automatic in the current version.
We have 1000+ employees in the Highways Division, however, we have 810 PCs/Server Diskeeper Clients. The current count should suffice. The Department of Transportation consists of 3 divisions (Airports, Harbors and Highways) and the Admininstration arm."
Hawaii Dept of Transportation
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"I like Diskeeper and feel it provides us with a better way to defrag computer hard drives versus the built-in defrag utility. I like the Diskeeper Administrator Edition software module which I have installed on my PC workstation for deploying the Diskeeper software and using the Remote Control for analyzing, defragging and setting a defrag schedule for a PC.
I currently have my PC setup to automatically defrag every weekday at noon. I some PC workstations setup with the “Set it and forget it” setting which will defrag all day whenever needed. And yes, I would recommend Diskeeper to others. Bottom line, Diskeeper keeps our systems performing at peak level without gradual degradation.
The PC systems are configured with Windows 2000 or XP and Microsoft Office 2003. We also use WRQ’s Reflection productions for 3270 Mainframe and Linux emulation. We do have RAID 5 setup on our HP ProLiant servers. We have Autodesk 2004 on a Windows Server 2003 server .
The type of work done at our site is office administration for a corrugated box plant. Our normal business hours are 7:30 AM – 4:00 PM. Of course, we do have some people coming in earlier or staying later. Some of our users leave their PC’s on 7x24 which is not something I like or encourage. What I was looking for was the best or most efficient method for defragging a hard drive. "
Green Bay Packaging
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"I would be fine with an e-mail reference.
The best thing to me about Diskeeper is the fact I can put it on a heavily used server with no fear of it interfering with the normal operation of the server. It truly is “Set it and forget it.” The cluster awareness is working fine.
We do have an EMC SAN. Probably the most complex task we use Diskeeper for is defragging our SQL 2000 cluster server on one of our e-commerce sites.
Probably the most exotic thing we have it on is a clustered SQL 2000 server. It is for our e-commerce sites dieseltimeframes.com and emporioarmaniwatches.com, it keeps the databases working as fast as possible which is important especially with the upcoming busy Christmas shopping season.
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Fossil LLP
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"The Diskeeper automatic defragmenter helps alot with system administration. Our systems are used in high speed, real time data acquisition, data analysis, graphics, etc...
Benefits: Can quickly defrag the disk on a scheduled (unattended) basis. This reduces "problems" with the associated machines. Users report fewer problems are encountered on machines with Diskeeper installed. The primary problems were due to slow performance due to fragmentation. This prevented some applications from running at an acceptable rate. The users were unable to do their work.
We are using SQL server and regularly use RAID drives. Lotus Notes client is run on my machines.
I have been using Diskeeper with InvisiTasking turned on. It works well on my machines. I still recommend Diskeeper to other users, and run it on all my machines.
The speed of the defragmentation, and the ability to schedule unattended defragmentation is the most valuable for our network.
I regularly recommend Diskeeper to others for their systems and networks.
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Environmental Protection Agency
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"I think Diskeeper is a valuable tool to keep our computers running efficiently. It increases the speed and has improved disk reliability. Before running Diskeeper I would have two to three disk failures a year from fragmentation. I would pull a disk that didn't boot, put it into a system as a secondary disk and defrag it. When I would put the disk back in the original machine it would then boot.
I think Network Administrators have defrag problems and do not recognize that is the problem. I called my counterpart at another plant and asked him what he did when he had the same type of problem and he told me he would ghost the system. I did not have time to deal with those types of issues but Diskeeper has eliminated that problem. In almost two years of running Diskeeper I have not had a disk failure that was data related. I use the administrator to deploy and remove Diskeeper from my systems.
I split my time between systems and engineering with about 90 computers to maintain. I need to keep the computer system issues to a minimum to allow time for my engineering projects. Last year I was consistently having issues with heavy users getting the blue screen of death and slow program response times. Since my job involves systems and engineering I run a heavy load on my laptop computer with 3-D cad software, Excel, Access, as well as network monitoring software with multiple server logons. It was nothing to open the built-in defrag program on my laptop after three to five days of running and seeing more than half the screen RED.
The results of the Trialware were so good I immediately started lobbying for the funds to buy Diskeeper for all my machines. The results of running Diskeeper has been significant. I almost never have a BSOD unless it is related to some software issue. The computer response times on program opening is amazingly fast and stays that way. In the days before Diskeeper, my first troubleshooting technique was to always defrag first. I know when I have an issue today it is not due to fragmentation of the drive.
The heavy users that consistently had problems pre Diskeeper, never call unless they forget their password. Below is a screen print of my laptop drive analysis that has not been manually defragged since installing Diskeeper on this new laptop three months ago. Best of all it runs and you never know it is there. It always runs in the background without loss of resources for you computer programs running in foreground.
Diskeeper is the best program I have run in years. I also run this on my home computers with Vista and XP OS systems. "
Cooper Industries
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"Diskeeper is very easy to use, has a straightforward install and a very small footprint. I like the transparency, monitoring and automatic defragmentation. It’s fully automatic once the scheduling is set up, and from then on its realtime defrag.
On our SAN we saw considerable performance increase – this is a definite plus over the slow degradation of performance without Diskeeper installed.
I’ve been a fan since the mid-90’s when Diskeeper was the only defragmenter available for our servers. I did the actual rollout of Diskeeper 2007 to our 80 servers.
We deployed the new version of Diskeeper to 80 servers. We had no issues at all. It went very smoothly. I do not anticipate a return on investment until a later date. We have not been spending a lot of time on defragging most of these servers. The initial rollout of Diskeeper saved us some money as we were having issues with the Exchange Servers. The updated version just made everything easier.
We are using two Exchange servers (cluster) and one SAN. The 80 servers include the two exchange servers.
No problem giving a reference for our use of Diskeeper.
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Germania Insurance
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"Diskeeper Administrator has helped immensely with deployment and version tracking of the Diskeeper software. I especially like its ability to query PC’s on our network and run detailed reports, then allowing the reports to be used as templates for deploying or managing machines; also the license tracking feature works well to let us know where we are in terms of used and available licenses.
We have Exchange 2003 servers running in “front-end/back-end” configuration, and we do run on a SAN as well.
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AZ Dept Environmental Quality
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"I would be happy to help with references for Diskeeper.
We use HP Data Protector 6.0 and Backup Exec. I have some MSA 60 storage, and local storage of up to 18TB on a single server with various RAID levels depending on the application. Virtual Server 2005 guests and hosts run Diskeeper. I run Diskeeper with Virtual Server 2005, Active Directory, SQL 2005 and Exchange 2003. Our Photo Division has some Diskeeper Pro on the graphics workstations. The other software it is from Kodak.
I would also be happy to be a reference for Undelete 2009.
We have used it a few times. We do full nightly back ups so it has saved the effort and time of having tapes sent in from storage. I can only speak for this site since the others may have used it more.
We have been satisfied. We have the Diskeeper and Undelete on a few key servers and workstations as indicated below. I definitely would recommend the products to others.
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Herff Jones
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"I have demonstrated for users that purchased the software to add to their current PC the benefits of the program. It almost every case the immediate improvement of overall system read times is greater than 30%.
For drive failures I would say we had a least one or 2 a month. Now we are lucky to have 3 or 4 for the year. Based on servicing such failures I can say it is dramatically down.
I have seen dramatic improvements in many machines. Most specifically when Diskeeper recognized the MFT is full and allows me to expand it. So instead of a harddrvie that is always thrashing I have one that is much more optimized. The defragging is a benefit as well but the MFT recognition has really bailed me out at times.
We have Diskeeper on a few recent servers. All servers going forward have Diskeeper installed. To keep the machine optimized and provide optimal disk access is crucial on a server so it just makes sense to have your product on it.
This program should be on every machine as a default; that would be golden. But I am rolling it out more and more. So eventually it might happen. Our last 2 projects, every machine went out with it installed.
Getting more reliable/long term use out of our hard drives is a huge benefit from using your software as the drives seem to run much smooth with less thrashing after we have used the software and allow it to keep the drive optimized."
Ryder Logistics & Transportation Solutions Worldwide
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"Diskeeper is one of the best investments we made for system maintainence. The InvisiTasking has made a huge difference. Users have notice an improvement on the file server since we started to use Diskeeper. Another thing that I have notice is the system response while it is running. Typically when a defrag utility is running, you can notice a decrease in system performance. When Diskeeper's Automatic defrag is running, there is no noticeable change in system performance. Great tool and would highly recommend it to anyone."
RMSCO Inc.
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"Installing Diskeeper was one of the first things I did upon my arrival here at Petrocard. I think it’s an excellent product.
I would highly recommend Diskeeper to any Admin looking to improve server performance and reliability. At our location we deployed it on our most critical servers and the difference was quite drastic (that particular server is our mail server).
My biggest fear was that the server would take a performance hit once the software was defragging, but the hit never materialized. In fact the system was noticeably faster after a few days, and after two weeks, a few people asked me if we had moved the mail to a new server.
On the reliability side, that server had 3 drive failures in 6 months prior to Diskeeper being installed. So far it’s been running for 7 months and we haven’t had a single drive failure on any server that Diskeeper is also running on.
In our environment, Diskeeper is deployed on all of our major production systems (Email, DC, one HP NAS, one IBM SAN, two Citrix servers). All of our devices are in some sort of RAID configuration.
When we initially deployed Diskeeper on our NAS (which was just as fragmented as our mail server), it wasn’t defragging because of the intense load the system was under. I called tech support and they helped me modify a few registry keys and the software was working the way it should. And, as on our mail server, there was no noticeable performance impact while it was defragging.
Diskeeper is worth every penny and is one of the few programs out there that does exactly what it says. I could not be happier with the performance and reliability gains we have made since installing Diskeeper. Diskeeper is easy to recommend something that works so well.
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PetroCard
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"Indeed, we are a satisfied customer. We’ve done some testing, and validated what we already suspected – fragmented disks contribute to overall system slowdowns.
We’ve measured several common functions on several systems before and after Diskeeper defragmentation – we found anywhere between 10-15% performance improvement. While 10-15% may sound fairly modest overall, when considering an engineer’s time/value, improving performance by 10-15% for their daily tasks has a significant aggregate benefit to our operation and productivity.
At the same time, we found that Diskeeper’s management is powerful and easy – a “set it, and forget it” scenario that just works.
I’d be willing to give a reference for Diskeeper.
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Albert Kahn Associates, Inc.
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