30 Oct 2008

October 30, 2008

BURBANK, CA–(MARKET WIRE)–Oct 29, 2008 — Let’s speculate that a scientific discovery has made it possible to grow 100 times the amount of corn grown in the U.S. yearly. Suddenly there is this fantastic yield — but now where to put it? Whole new levels of efficient farming and processing would have to be evolved and new, larger capacity corn bins would have to be developed and erected for storage. As well, far more powerful technology would be required to sort and organize each crop.

In the computing arena, let us speculate that technology evolved so that we could store many more times the data that we can now. At the same time, file sizes grew 10 or 100 times current sizes and required storage and retrievability. And, businesses began relying far more heavily on storage and precision analysis of computerized data. Whole new levels of processing would need to be developed and new, higher-capacity drives would have to be developed for storage.

Oh, wait — that second event has already happened! So much so that multi-terabyte hard drives have become more common than ever, made necessary by the fantastic number of files being created and stored by today’s enterprises, as well as the huge file sizes required by applications such as video and audio.

Despite early rumors to the contrary, large drives do suffer from fragmentation — and badly. Because the operating system fragments files automatically, fragmentation has nothing whatsoever to do with the size or speed of the disk. Small or large, the files written to a disk will be fragmented, and a defragmenter will be required. The considerable performance increases from defragmentation on large drives have been documented repeatedly, and anyone can simply test for themselves with before and after tests with defragmentation trialware. Such gains are understandable given the higher volume of files and file sizes inherent with the utilization of large disks.

But what defragmentation technology do you use for those drives? Many defragmenters were not created to defragment large drives, and in many cases large drive fragmentation isn’t even touched by a defragmenter; the defragmenter simply grinds endlessly, not being able to keep up with the sheer volume of fragmentation.

Just like it would take whole new powerful levels of methodology to organize our hypothetical corn crop, it takes an appropriately powerful defragmentation engine to tackle multi-terabyte drives. It is a whole new era of data processing and storage — and a whole new era of defragmentation as well.

As your company moves into such levels of storage and retrieval, ensure any defragmenter you employ has a defrag engine specifically designed to attack the severe fragmentation on such drives.

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