«

Can anyone recommend a good background defragger for a large (~600GB of data)
NTFS drive on a file server? It's only a PIII 800 so something that won't
slow it down too much would be nice.

--
Ray Greene

Ray Greene wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good background defragger for a large (~600GB of data)
> NTFS drive on a file server? It's only a PIII 800 so something that won't
> slow it down too much would be nice.
>
Back the drive up, format it and then restore the data.

--
EMB

Ray Greene wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good background defragger for a large (~600GB of data)
> NTFS drive on a file server? It's only a PIII 800 so something that won't
> slow it down too much would be nice.
>

You could try the full (not trial) version of Diskeeper 9.0 Home Edition
for about $9.00 if you buy this month's Australian PC User magazine?

In message <eiof1e$160$>, Ray Greene wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a good background defragger for a large (~600GB of
> data) NTFS drive on a file server?

Switch to an OS that implements more intelligent file-allocation algorithms.

Ray Greene wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good background defragger for a large (~600GB of data)
> NTFS drive on a file server? It's only a PIII 800 so something that won't
> slow it down too much would be nice.
>

PerfectDisk from http://www.raxco.com/ is what I swear by

wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:31:52 +1300, EMB <> wrote:
>
>> Ray Greene wrote:
>>> Can anyone recommend a good background defragger for a large (~600GB of data)
>>> NTFS drive on a file server? It's only a PIII 800 so something that won't
>>> slow it down too much would be nice.
>>>
>> Back the drive up, format it and then restore the data.
>
>
>
> Please get Real..
>
> What a Utterly Stupid reply..

If files on the server are being modified much I'd be fairly certain
that a slow old machine like that wouldn't manage to defrag any faster
than the changes were occurring. On an underpowered server with 600GB
of data my suggestion is probably the most effective and quick method of
doing a "defrag".

As an aside Roger, your "mainframe" experience doesn't count for **** in
a scenario like this either.


--
EMB

On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:07:07 +1300, EMB <> wrote:

> wrote:
>> On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:31:52 +1300, EMB <> wrote:
>>
>>> Ray Greene wrote:
>>>> Can anyone recommend a good background defragger for a large (~600GB of data)
>>>> NTFS drive on a file server? It's only a PIII 800 so something that won't
>>>> slow it down too much would be nice.
>>>>
>>> Back the drive up, format it and then restore the data.

600GB? Not bloody likely

>> Please get Real..
>>
>> What a Utterly Stupid reply..
>
>If files on the server are being modified much I'd be fairly certain
>that a slow old machine like that wouldn't manage to defrag any faster
>than the changes were occurring. On an underpowered server with 600GB
>of data my suggestion is probably the most effective and quick method of
>doing a "defrag".

The majority of the data doesn't get modified that much so it should keep up.

Your suggestion is certainly effective, I've done it in the past, but with
that much data is certainly isn't quick.

--
Ray Greene.

On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:31:52 +1300, EMB <> wrote:

>Ray Greene wrote:
>> Can anyone recommend a good background defragger for a large (~600GB of data)
>> NTFS drive on a file server? It's only a PIII 800 so something that won't
>> slow it down too much would be nice.
>>
>Back the drive up, format it and then restore the data.



Please get Real..

What a Utterly Stupid reply..

On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:56:09 +1300, Daniel <> wrote:

>Ray Greene wrote:
>> Can anyone recommend a good background defragger for a large (~600GB of data)
>> NTFS drive on a file server? It's only a PIII 800 so something that won't
>> slow it down too much would be nice.
>>
>
>You could try the full (not trial) version of Diskeeper 9.0 Home Edition
>for about $9.00 if you buy this month's Australian PC User magazine?

I'lll have to check that out, I wouldn't mind a copy for myself.

It won't solve my problem unfortunately, I had a look at the Diskeeper site
today and that version only handles volumes up to 768GB, the fileserver drive
is 850GB.

--
Ray Greene

On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:52:20 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<_zealand> wrote:

>In message <eiof1e$160$>, Ray Greene wrote:
>
>> Can anyone recommend a good background defragger for a large (~600GB of
>> data) NTFS drive on a file server?
>
>Switch to an OS that implements more intelligent file-allocation algorithms.

We have one of those but it's used as a backup to the main fileserver. I'm
the only Linux user at work so it's not really viable to use it as the main
machine when no one else there can work on it.

--
Ray Greene