8 Reasons To Use Perfect Disk
A few weekends ago, I was having an enormous amount of trouble with two of our computers.
They are used heavily for photo editing by the four yound ladies who use them about 16-20 hours a day. Yes, that means 16-20 hours a day each one is in use. They work in shifts. Some are day-people, some are morning-people, some are night-people.
I had been using software that I purchased to help keep the hard-disks defragmented. When you use Photoshop that many hours a day, you’re gonna have problems with fragmentation.
I work a lot on weekends making sure our computers will stand up to another weeks work. Extra virus scans, defrags, cleanups, etc.
This particular weekend, 15-16 July, I had a terrible time with one unit that gets the brunt of the Photoshop duty.
Diskeeper, which is what i used before now, would not finish it’s defragmentation.
I turned it off and tried the built-in utility that comes with XP Pro.
No deal. Would not finish.
It’s now about 2 am and I’m pissed and sleepy, but I will not quit.
I went on scavenger hunt for a new defragger.
I found info about some that I’d tried in the past and I found info on the two that would not work for me.
Then I found Perfect Disk 7 and it had a free trial. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, so I downloaded and put it into action.
Wow ! Is all I can say. It not only worked, it worked wonders !
I had fewer fragments after one pass then I’d ever had after several scans with my old utilities.
And it had left me with a larger, more usable partition than I’d ever had available. That, in and of itself, is a Photoshopper’s dream !
I’ve now been using it, I bought two copies, for 2 months and all I can still say is Wow !
I’ve had less trouble, our units run faster and they need fewer defrags than ever before.
The reasons for all this is spelled out on their website, so I’ll link you there at the end of this post, because they can tell you their story better than I can.
As for me, here’s my 8 Reasons To Use Perfect Disk :
1) I have Version 7 - it’s the best by far and it’s only going to get better with Version 8.
2) Auto-Pilot Scheduling and a Screensaver mode for when you didn’t think to make good use of this downtime.
3) Resource Saver technology. They’ve got it and you need it.
4) Space Restoration Technology - that’s what creates that very larger, very usable partition.
5) It’s Microsoft Certified and works on really big drives, unlike other utilities.
6) Single File Defrag - some of you have really big files that you work with and this will quickly defrag that and let you get back to work.
7) Their new I/O and CPU throttling features that won’t bog down your system.
One and done. Perfect disk gets it done with one pass.
Go by and give it a try. They offer a free trial, which gives you more than enough time to evaluate it.
Perfect Disk 8 has the Simplenomics Seal of Approval !
PS - This is a totally independent review. I received no compensation, nor do I have any ties to the product, the manufacturers nor am I affiliated in any way.
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I’m a Diskeeper user, always have been, love the new v10 they relesed some time ago. I’ll have to give Perfect Disk a try sometime.
Hey TechZ, I WAS a long time Diskeeper user and it let me down.
There’s no comparison between the two. Perfect Disk is 100 X better.
Diskeeper Lite is the Windows built-in version, and you know how weak it is.
Go by and try a free 30 day trial of Perfect Disk 8, you’ll be glad you did.
Perfectdisk 8 fell behind other defraggers because of their new interface. It’s slower and aesthetically clumsy compared to other defraggers. This version does not improve enough for an upgrade. Some folks will try to downplay the aesthetics, but Raxco is in the big leagues and should put out a complete product like Diskeeper 10 Pro Premeire, O&O 8.5, or even UlitmateDefrag Beta 1.5. I own Perfectdisk 7 so I was really hoping for quality improvements. Raxco features are nice, but not worth 40 bucks for half a product. I’ll wait until the next version. :0(
Hey Wordsworth, you still work for Diskeeper or are you smokin’ crack ?
Diskeeper 10 is a joke and the others don’t even merit pixel space.
Thanks for adding more lies to the conversation and since you submitted this comment 3 times I almost deleted it as SPAM, which it basically is.
I have been a loyal PerfectDisk 7 user since I tried Diskeeper and it messed up my disk structure (could have been something unique to my PC but once burnt..). I have been very happy with PD v7.
I would have to agree with Wordsworth, however, on Version 8. The interface now is basically ugly (something like Symantec would put together).
The disk layout display is now much harder to read since it uses darker shades of color to represent fragmented sectors instead of outlined like in version 7.
My experience has also been that Version 8 seems significantly slower than v7.
The most aggravating to me though is that I can’t get V8 to fully de-fragment the drive, even using the most aggresive defragmentation settings.
Given these shortcomings and the fact that I would be hard-pressed to even tell you what the new “improved” features are (I am just a home PC user - not corporate), I would have to agree with Wordsworth that the version 8 upgrade is not worth paying for.
Thanks for the info, Daniel.
I’m sure they’ll have it up to their usual great standards in a short while.
I usually don’t upgrade for a month or two….let’s them fix all the bugs people find for them.
Perfect Disk Failed to connect to computer …
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
The above mentioned error has been seen by a lot of folks. I recently happened to solve this problem. [I am referring to Perfectdisk version 7.]
You can look the solution up at http://imaro.blogspot.com
Hint: The answer lies in the “Comment” area.
Thanks Prem !
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