Don’t Let Fragmentation Break Down Your Terabyte Drives

January 21, 2009

BURBANK, CA - January 20, 2009 (Market Wire) - It wasn’t long ago that 1 terabyte drives arrived on the scene, marking a dramatic leap in storage capacities. As always in the computing universe, such advances quickly become “not enough,” and to prove this out 2 TB drives were just released as well.

Such disks bring several advantages to enterprises everywhere. A prime benefit is the reduction in the overall footprint of a system — an important factor with today’s cost of real estate. An expanding amount of capacity can be had with fewer physical elements. Another is the simplifying of storage schemes; fewer drives mean shorter routes for the obtaining of data.

As always, speed of such drives must be maximized. A hard disk is already the slowest component in a computer system, so anything that slows it down further must be addressed in earnest. File fragmentation is the number one culprit for slowing access speed on drives. For terabyte drives, because of the sheer volume of data, it takes a whole new measure of defrag power to actually defragment them.

Defragmentation technology is not “one size fits all” — meaning, defragmenters developed for smaller drives will not defragment terabyte drives. They simply run endlessly with no end product of a defragmented drive.

Diskeeper® fully automatic defragmenter, however, includes Terabyte Volume Engine(TM) (TVE) technology developed specifically to address fragmentation issues on large drives. It is the only defrag technology with the necessary horsepower to eliminate the rapid fragmentation build-up that occurs in high-traffic volumes that handle millions of files.

“Diskeeper’s TVE made a huge difference, decreasing the fragmentation noticeably after running it several times,” said John Macioce, System Network Administrator with Journal Graphics of Portland, Oregon. “I don’t think there’s another product available that can function as well on large volumes.”

“Our use of Diskeeper Enterprise Server is for our Windows Storage Servers which have multi-terabyte volumes with millions of files,” added Michael Weremecki of Data Conversion Laboratories of Fresh Meadows, New York. “The Terabyte Volume Engine is why we upgraded as soon as Diskeeper 2009 came out.”

Developers at Diskeeper Corporation were also well aware of the fact that scheduling defrag on such drives would not be a workable solution, as intermittingly addressing fragmentation would not keep up with the problem. Diskeeper also includes InvisiTasking® technology, which allows fully automatic background defragmentation with no scheduling and no negative performance hit from defrag. Defrag is consistently done, and Terabyte drive performance and reliability are constantly maximized.

As corporations utilize terabyte drives, they will need to implement Diskeeper software, with its proprietary TVE technology, to maximize their performance and reliability.

Contact:
Colleen Toumayan
Email: ctoumayan@diskeeper.com