With the federal government about to get much larger, the biggest swarm of consultants, "Beltway Bandits" and the like are already starting to infiltrate the Washington, DC area, home of the US government and your favorite defrag company. They're looking for a piece of the stimulus pie and anything else that comes along. Contracts for government work are awarded via the RFP process, or Request For Proposal. In an RFP, an agency or company specifies the criteria on which they will make a decision for a particular product or solution.
Well, in case any home users want to play government agency and put together their own RFP, here's a list to help get you thinking:
- The defrag tool must be certified by Microsoft. When a hard drive fails, you want to eliminate possible sources of the problem.
- The defrag solution must run automatically in the background, using only idle resources.
- The defragmenter should provide the ability to regularly schedule defrag runs when automatic background defragmenting is not possible.
- The defrag tool should defrag a drive in a single pass, rather than slowly chipping away at the problem. Once and done.
- The defrag tool should provide multiple defrag and optimization strategies according to a user's specific and unique needs (e.g. being able to defragment a specific file or set of file).
- The defrag solution must consolidate free space into the largest piece of contiguous free space possible in order to reduce future fragmentation and minimize resource consumption.
- The defrag tool should defragment with less than 1% free space on the drive.
- The defragger should provide an automatic file recycler to recover space.
- The defragger should provide a duplicate file finder to save space.
- The defrag utility should provide a set of space reports and tools to analyze file and directory usage and allocation.
- The defrag tool should be able to defrag SSD drives effectively by consolidating free space and not require an extra-cost option to do so.
- The defrag tool should be the one most recommended by Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs).
- The defrag utility should support unlimited drive sizes without an extra fee.
These are just a few things to think about as you do your own analysis and "RFP." As always, we recommend trying products side by side and seeing for yourself.
Do your own thing. Make your own decisions. And if you end up with a great defragger from a company that has the defrag solutions for the 21st century, you will have done yourself proud.
And aligned yourself with the US Patent and Trademark Office, FBI, National Institute of Health, and many other government agencies. As well as Gibson Guitars, Subway (the sandwich guys), Fosters (the wine and beer guys), Marvel (yea, Spiderman), and other cool companies.
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