All reasonable questions….

The only one I think I could answer is the one about the built in one doing a poor job. I dont think so much that it does a poor job as much as it does an adequate job. If Microsoft built a fantastic defrag program themselves and included it free of charge then I suspect they would be accused of anti-competition again.

Also, I think the Diskeeper guys may have developed the version of defrag built into Windows – so a “lite” version if you will.

I suppose it is simply a case of if its not something you have noticed that you need then you probably dont need it.

Andrew

Does the defrag utility built into Windows and WHS really do such a poor job? Assuming that there is an improvement in defragmentation with Diskeeper of several percent, how much would that really impact performance?

I am asking these questions in earnest. I truly don’t know the answers. But it seems to me that some empirical data is necessary in order to evaluate the true effectiveness of a defrag program that costs 10% of the server itself!