Steve Gibson "very impressed" with PerfectDisk

Steve Gibson, maker of SpinRite, recently disclosed on his Security Now broadcast that he uses PerfectDisk and is "very impressed" with it. The thing he likes most is PerfectDisk's ability to defragment all NTFS metadata. Read the transcript or hear it here.

Let's repeat this lesson -- PerfectDisk defragments all NTFS metadata; no other defragmenter does. PerfectDisk reports on all NTFS metadata; no other defragmenter does. This does not mean other vendors do not claim to defragment all metadata.

As always, buyer beware.

                  

Comments

[PerfectDisk]

Hey Terry,

Thanks again. What we try to do is get those boot files where your boot time will be as fast as possible. Hope you are finding that PerfectDisk is speeding up your boot times.

Thanks,
Joe

[Terry Blone]

Thanks for the reply Joe,

On my pc PerfectDisk reports on around nine of those files, while VOPT reports approx double that number - hence my question (I understand VOPT won't actually defrag any of them btw).

It's hard to find specific information about this area on the web - just general talk of "system files" - so thanks for clearing that up for me. It's a strong feature I think.

I'm intrigued why Paragon wouldn't defrag these files but I don't plan on buying it anyway so it's a moot point for me.

One thing I've noticed, having run PerfectDisk and then trying out Diskeeper: Diskeeper moves most of PerfectDisk's Boot classified files to the opposite end of the disk - most unexpected!

[PerfectDisk]

Hi Terry,

Thanks for your comment. There are a slew of NTFS metadata files, all of which PerfectDisk defragments, such as $MFT, $MFTMirr, $LogFile, $Volume, $AttrDef, $., $Bitmap, $Boot, $Secure, $UpCase, $Extend, $ObjId, $Quota, $Reparse, $UsnJrnl, all files in the $Secure folder, all files which reside in the $Extend folder, and all non-resident attributes.

I'd bet the mortgage Paragon does not defragment all these files.

Thanks,
Joe

[Terry Blone]

Out of interest, could you list the meta data files PerfectDisk defrags?

Also are you sure Paragon doesn't defrag at least as many as PerfectDisk (seeing as it boot's from its own cd and all...)

Am very interested in your comments.