Stephanie Diamond of Digital Media Works recently sat down with Raxco Software's president and CEO Bob Nolan. Bob touched on the market reaction to PerfectDisk 10, PerfectDisk's impact on consumers and businesses in the current economic environment, the challenges of defragmentation in a virtual environment, and more.
You can listen to the interview here.
Here's the transcript of a recent interview with Bob Nolan, president and CEO of Raxco Software, in which Bob talks about the importance of free space consolidation. As Bob points out, "for every request to the file system there should be a single physical disk I/O to the disk. Anything greater than one is an extraneous or wasted disk access." There's a lot more - read the entire interview here or listen here.
Defragmenting without thoroughly consolidating free space? That's a half-empty glass if I ever saw one.
Here's Part 2 of our podcast with Greg Hayes, Raxco Software's Manager of Technical Solutions and 5-time Microsoft MVP for file systems. In this interview, Greg answers questions about free space consolidation and "always on" defragmentation. The spin doctors would have you believe that because of today's big drives, big files and high level of drive activity, that defragmentation software needs to be running continually. True? Find out what Greg thinks.
Listen here.
I'm happy today to kick off a two-part interview with Greg Hayes, Raxco Software's Manager of Technical Solutions and 5-time Microsoft MVP for file systems. Greg has been in the IT field for 20 years and works closely with many of the world's largest companies in helping them with their fragmentation problems and file system issues.
For example, when the folks at CNN ran into a severe fragmentation and file system problem because the third-party defragmenter it was using was unable to handle the level of activity at the company, Greg was called in along with engineers from CNN, HP and Microsoft to diagnose the problem. The fact that PerfectDisk ultimately was brought in to address the problem is a nice story for us, but it also illustrates the level of expertise required at times to pinpoint specific problems. This is the type of contact Greg makes regularly as he assists enterprise and othe business users.
In Part 1 of this interview, Greg addresses the general question of whether or not defragmentation really matters, built-in and freeware defraggers, and the issue of defragmentation in various environments - servers, desktops, laptops, Windows Home Server, etc. The podcast is less than 8 minutes long, so why not grab a cup of coffee and hear what Greg has to say. Whether you agree or disagree with Greg's views, it will definitely give you something to think about.
He's the Sheriff of The Great Defrag Shootout. He's Donn Edwards, speaking from Johannesburg, South Africa. In this 13-minute podcast, Donn gives the lowdown on his shootout - the good, the bad and the ugly. Who is Donn? What's the shootout all about? Why does Donn think defragmentation matters? What about large drives? Should I pay for a defragmenter or use a free one? Why should I care what Donn thinks anyway?
The answers, and more, are here. Thousands of users from all over the world have made this the go-to site for informative, unbiased information on disk defragmentation. Listen to the podcast here.
It's a no-spin zone. Look. Listen. Learn.
Here's a podcast of a recent interview with Stephen Smith, president of Soundsmiths Mastering, which performs audio mastering, the final staging for audio recordings. Stephen provides insight into some of the keys for maintaining PC performance when dealing with large multimedia files. While Stephen deals mostly with audio files, his insight provides helpful information for anyone dealing with large files and large drives.
Big, bad, nasty drives with lots of files, lots of fragments and little free space? There's nothing extreme about it if you're defragging with PerfectDisk. One engine. One pass. Done.
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