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October 22, 2007
Send us your worst fragmented disks... Diskeeper 2008 is here!
Do you have volumes with really, really low free space? Maybe less than 1%? Maybe you have files in hundreds of thousands or millions of fragments?
No matter how tough the problem, Diskeeper 2008 will handle the worst fragmentation you can throw at it. Diskeeper 2008 offers a host of new features and functionality with a concentration on "core" improvements to make defragmentation faster and more effective. Read all about it at www.diskeeper.com. I'll cover each improvement in more details here on the blog in the coming weeks.
Another exciting announcement is that Diskeeper 2008 is immediately available in 8 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
I'll leave off with one early product review from Professor Brian Robinson at www.3dprofessor.org (a well known technical testing group in the UK).
"The team at Diskeeper most certainly have an exciting new product that, in most areas, showed up to (and in certain applications) a 28% increase in performance over a Windows system with no defragmentation tool installed. [Diskeeper 2008 showed] Up to 14% increase in performance in certain areas over Diskeeper 2007, which is quite a remarkable achievement!" - Professor Brian Robinson.
Posted by Michael at October 22, 2007 12:10 AM
Comments
The only question that I have is that the website, besides the Terabyte aspects doesn't really give me a consumer an idea of what kind of jump Diskeeper 2008 is really giving me.
I mean my PC doesn't have Terabyte drives right now, and I've been happy using 2007. However, I do like to stay up to date.... But I'm also not going to dish out a bunch of cash for a product taht doesn't have alot of updates for me as an end-consumer.
I would really like to know piece by piece what has been updated. I.E. - Larger Drive supprot... :) Do you think you can help clarify or get corporate headquarters to include more data like this?
Posted by: Damian Shepard at January 6, 2008 02:07 AM
Hi Damien
This site has an overview of the new features:
http://www.diskeeper.com/diskeeper/whats-new-in-diskeeper-2008.asp
We've published a paper on the technical performance differences, but it isn't yet available on the website (I'll push the marketing folks to get that uploaded).
I understand your considerations on the upgrade and agree that if the new features don't apply - save the cash. Here's my 2 cents on whether v2008 is worth upgrading.
1. You haven't got a thorough defrag with an older version of Diskeeper (due to limited free space or very heavy fragmentation - or a combination of the two)
2. You have a OS (e.g. Vista) that runs VSS (Shadow Copy) and have had problems defragmenting VSS volumes (loss of "snapshots').
3. Defrag hasn't been keeping up with fragmentation with an older version of Diskeeper.
4. Manually editing FragShield is a hassle (though this is usually only done once anyways)
Discounted Upgrades (1/2 the price) are only available for two versions back, but you can buy maintenance at 25% of the license cost that entitles you to all upgrades for 12 months. We don't guarantee a new version will be out in that period, but we have a great track record of meeting this target for 4 years now.
Posted by: Michael at January 10, 2008 07:01 PM