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Maximising performance & reliability
Improve your system performance by up to 40% with Diskeeper.
Today's servers must cope with escalating demands to process bandwidth
and volume sizes without bottlenecking. It is literally impossible to do
this effectively without the ability to dynamically eliminate
fragmentation as Diskeeper is designed to do.
Microsoft Windows servers run faster and more reliably with Diskeeper
and stay that way without needing any intervention from the IT
Administrator.
The Breakthrough of Invisible Software
InvisiTasking's truly transparent background processing technology
allows Diskeeper 2009 to defragment your computer in real time,
completely eliminating long, resource-hogging, productivity-robbing
maintenance processes.
Key Features:
- InvisiTasking(r)
- Complete file and free space defragmentation.
- I-FAAST(r) 2.0 (Intelligent File Access Acceleration Sequencing
Technology) automatically boosts access speeds for the most commonly
used files.
- Terebyte Volume Engine(tm) 2.0 (TVE) eliminates the rapid
fragmentation build-up that occurs in high capacity and high traffic
24/7 servers that handle hundreds of thousands to millions of files
(e.g. NAS, RAID, and SAN).
- Fragshield(r) 2.0 boosts reliability and availability by automatically
preventing crash-inducing fragmentation of critical system files.
- Support for MOM/SCOM.
Diskeeper is also available in the following versions:
Diskeeper 2009 Professional
Designed for the typical office PC user, Diskeeper 2009 Professional
includes advanced protection against performance problems for PCs and
Laptops.
Diskeeper Pro Premier
Specially designed for high-end systems and power users! Get an EXTRA
performance boost above and beyond anything you have ever experienced
before - even better than when your system was new!
Diskeeper Enterprise Server
Efficiently defragments volumes from 100GBs up to and exceeding 20
terabytes at maximum speeds with new Titan Defragmentation Engine (TDE),
the most powerful engine ever built.
Diskeeper Administrator
Provides centralised defragmentation management, alerting, and reporting
tools to empower System Administrators with easy network-wide control.
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Invisible wrote:
> Improve your system performance by up to 40% with Diskeeper.
Why only 40%?
If your system isn't fragmented at all, a defragger will have 0% impact
(in the best case; more likely a slight negative impact while it's
running). If you system is highly fragmented, 400% or 4,000% might well
be plausible.
> Today's servers must cope with escalating demands to process bandwidth
> and volume sizes without bottlenecking.
I'm pretty sure "bottlenecking" isn't an actual verb. It's a noun. Also
"process bandwidth and volume sizes"? Was this written by a 5 year old?
Or are they just trying to cram as many technical-sounding words into it
as possible to Clueless CEO will think this is a hip and happening
product? Certainly anybody who knows WTF fragmentation actually is
should be raising an eyebrow at this point.
> It is literally impossible to do
> this effectively without the ability to dynamically eliminate
> fragmentation as Diskeeper is designed to do.
Well, given the nebulous meaning of "process bandwidth and volume
sizes", I couldn't say whether I'm doing it or not. But I doubt it's
"impossible" at all. :-P
> Microsoft Windows servers run faster and more reliably with Diskeeper
> and stay that way without needing any intervention from the IT
> Administrator.
Oh really?
Faster, possibly. More reliably? How do you figure that one?
> The Breakthrough of Invisible Software
>
> InvisiTasking's truly transparent background processing technology
> allows Diskeeper 2009 to defragment your computer in real time,
> completely eliminating long, resource-hogging, productivity-robbing
> maintenance processes.
This is clearly written for Mr Clueless CEO. Look at the language:
resource-hogging, productivity-robbing maintenance. Oh how terrible!
Will somebody PLEASE think of the children?!
> Key Features:
>
> - InvisiTasking(r)
This is a key feature?
This is a registered trademark??
> - Complete file and free space defragmentation.
Given that this is the product's ONLY PURPOSE FOR EXISTING, one would
hope so, yes.
> - I-FAAST(r) 2.0 (Intelligent File Access Acceleration Sequencing
> Technology) automatically boosts access speeds for the most commonly
> used files.
You can *so* tell that I-FAAST is an acronym purposely chosen to spell
"fast". I can almost see the Dilbert strip now...
"Sir, this is crap."
"But... but... it says FAST on it! It must be FAST!!"
> - Terabyte Volume Engine(tm) 2.0 (TVE) eliminates the rapid
> fragmentation build-up that occurs in high capacity and high traffic
> 24/7 servers that handle hundreds of thousands to millions of files
> (e.g. NAS, RAID, and SAN).
Terabyte Volume Engine? (That's a trademark??) What, because if it
doesn't say "terabyte" on it, it's not as good?
What difference does it make how many files it handles? Either there's
contiguous free space available or there isn't. Doesn't matter how many
files there are.
Ah, and gotta throw in a little technobabble like NAS, RAID ans SAN
(they're all the same class of thing, right?) so that Clueless CEO knows
that every SAN needs to have Diskeeper.
> - Fragshield(r) 2.0 boosts reliability and availability by automatically
> preventing crash-inducing fragmentation of critical system files.
Ah-hah, here we have the culprit: They're trying to suggest that file
fragmentation "induces" system crashes. By this simple fabrication, they
can claim that their performance improvement tool is in fact a
*reliability* improvement tool. As in, if you don't have this, your
systems will be unreliable and cost you money! Oh noes!!
> Diskeeper 2009 Professional
>
> Designed for the typical office PC user, Diskeeper 2009 Professional
> includes advanced protection against performance problems for PCs and
> Laptops.
It is unclear whether this "advanced protection" against "performance
problems" includes something beyond simple disk defragmentation. Maybe
they mean I-FAAST, or perhaps they mean it does other things such as
data prefetch to RAM or something? Hey, maybe it was a "registry
optimiser" feature? (Remember those?)
> Diskeeper Pro Premier
>
> Specially designed for high-end systems and power users! Get an EXTRA
> performance boost above and beyond anything you have ever experienced
> before - even better than when your system was new!
Pro Premier? Well, *this* is the puppy then, right?
Oh, well, if it gives me EXTRA performance... (Note the original advert
uses caps rather than italics. It's a printed ad, they could easily use
italics, or boldface, but they used caps. Nice.)
Wow, "beyond anything you have ever experienced" - sounds impressive,
eh? [The sysadmin inside me is screaming IT'S A DEFRAGGER!!]
"Even better than when your system was new"? Well, the last Acer I
bought was fragmented to hell when it was new; it's improved
considerably since then. (Could be partially due to Vista doing weird
stuff like indexing and prefetching and God knows what else...)
> Diskeeper Enterprise Server
>
> Efficiently defragments volumes from 100GBs up to and exceeding 20
> terabytes at maximum speeds with new Titan Defragmentation Engine (TDE),
> the most powerful engine ever built.
Again I find "100GBs" to be grammatically dubious. Ditto "maximum
speeds". And "the most powerful engine ever built"? What is it, a car?
This thing moves data around; what's to be "powerful" about it?
Basically, from this assessment, it is impossible to tell how Enterprise
Server is any different from the other products, other than perhaps that
they've tested it on really large volumes.
But hey, I'm not the target audience, am I? This is clearly aimed at
clueless n00bs who will buy anything with enough management power-speak
in the product litrature.
As I say, reading this makes my inner computer nerd want to shriek LIES!
LIES! THE CAKE IS A GODDAMN LIE!!! >_<
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>> Today's servers must cope with escalating demands to process bandwidth
>> and volume sizes without bottlenecking.
>
>> It is literally impossible to do this effectively without the ability to
>> dynamically eliminate fragmentation as Diskeeper is designed to do.
>
> Well, given the nebulous meaning of "process bandwidth and volume sizes",
> I couldn't say whether I'm doing it or not. But I doubt it's "impossible"
> at all. :-P
Some tech guy probably drafted the original version, which while technically
accurate was not "appealing" enough so marketing changed and added some bits
that sounded good. Then legal came in and told them to change the wording a
bit more to avoid making false claims, and then you got the result :-)
Anyway, back to your exact comment, they are claiming it's impossible to do
blah blah blah without bottlenecking, surely every system has a bottle neck
somewhere? Also note they don't claim that it is possible *with* their
system, just that it is impossible without it...
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Invisible wrote:
> Microsoft Windows servers run faster and more reliably with Diskeeper
> and stay that way without needing any intervention from the IT
> Administrator.
This, I feel, is the basic message of the whole advert. "Hey, just buy
our product! It's a silver bullet that will Make Everything Better(tm)."
God I want to smack people when they make unsubstantiated claims like
that...
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> Some tech guy probably drafted the original version, which while
> technically accurate was not "appealing" enough so marketing changed and
> added some bits that sounded good. Then legal came in and told them to
> change the wording a bit more to avoid making false claims, and then you
> got the result :-)
Yeah, probably...
> Also note they don't claim that it is possible
> *with* their system, just that it is impossible without it...
Ooo... you've played this game before! ;-) Yes, they assert that it is
*designed* to avoid bottlenecks, while carefully avoiding claiming that
it *succeeds* [although they very strongly imply it]. I wonder if that
works in a court of law?
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>> Microsoft Windows servers run faster and more reliably with Diskeeper and
>> stay that way without needing any intervention from the IT Administrator.
>
> This, I feel, is the basic message of the whole advert. "Hey, just buy our
> product! It's a silver bullet that will Make Everything Better(tm)."
>
> God I want to smack people when they make unsubstantiated claims like
> that...
They can probably legally say that because they did some test with a 10 year
old system full and fragmented like anything that crashed once, did some
timings on it, then let their software run for a week and did the same
tests, and saw some improvement. Why don't you call them and ask for the
details :-)
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Invisible wrote:
>> Probably because you're still running NT.
>
> How in the name of God would that know that?
You said it in one of your million messages to this newsgroup.
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Invisible wrote:
>> Probably because you're still running NT.
>
> How in the name of God would that know that?
You said it in one of your million messages to this newsgroup.
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>>> Probably because you're still running NT.
>> How in the name of God would that know that?
>
> You said it in one of your million messages to this newsgroup.
I think the first "that" was supposed to be a "they".
Unless "they" are reading this newsgroup.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Insanity is a small city on the western
border of the State of Mind.
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Darren New wrote:
>
> Unless "they" are reading this newsgroup.
>
We are and we know where he's posting from ;-)
--
"Eppur si muove" - Galileo Galilei
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