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A Tour of PerfectDisk 12
Here are some of the settings and screens you can view:
You can easily set up a schedule for defragmentation – by default it is set to perform a weekly scan on a Sunday.
If you have S.M.A.R.T. capable drives you can see information as well.
There are numerous settings you can change.
And various drive options you can enable, such as optimisation of SSD drives and USB connected drives, which in the case of Windows Home Server would be useful!
“Interesting” in you opinion how does it compare with Diskeeper? And does it support the special requirements of SSD’s?
Well at the moment PerfectDisk is the only defrag software for WHS 2011, so there isnt a comparison there. I will be reviewing PD12 for WHS V1 next so I will compare then. And yes, PD12 does support SSD’s and their requirements.
When I installed the trial version it was a 32-bit program. How do I get the 64-bit program. The installation was different also. I ran the .exe from my client and it found my WHS and installed it on the server. It did install a 64-bit pro version on my x64 client.
If you look through the documentation that should have come with the trial both the 32 bit and the 64 bit editions (V1 32 bit and WHS 2011 64 bit) are copied to a folder on that computer under program files/raxco/pd12_whs_install/perfectdisk12_home_server
You then just take the relevant msi file and copy it to your WHS box.
No comparison?
http://usingwindowshomeserver.com/2011/05/28/uwhs-giveaway-diskeeper-2011-giveaway-3-the-results/
If you mean no comparison with Diskeeper 2011, then no, becuase there is no Windows Home Server 2011 version of DK12. When we review PD12 for Windows Home Server V1, then we will compare.
My bad…DK should have used a different name for the product. At first glance, you do think it is for what we call Version 2 instead it is the 2011 Version of DK for Version 1.
No worries – I completely agree – and it is very surprising that they dont have a WHS 2011 version if you ask me!
I would recommend folks interested in PerfectDisk 12 to consider the following: in my testing, PD 12 could not defragment virtual containers (all other products I tried could, including freewares) and their SMART monitoring provided completely erroneous information (temperatures were in the 1,000 of degrees). Contacting support, it was clear they had no intent to deal with the virtual volume issue and did not consider it important, going up to recommend to stay with previous versions – this is a pity (encrypted containers or containers mounted as FS are becoming more and more common) and I was not pleased with their suggestion. Still waiting for a result of the problem with SMART – to me, this product was rushed out of the door and has many flaws and problems and does not deserve a high rating. The company used to provide much better service (time to move to a competitor’s product – I moved to DK 2012 which does the job and is consistent).
HATS OFF TO RAXOS PERFECTDISK 12.SIMPLY AWESOME SOFWARE.MUST HAVE BY EVERY OTHER PC OWENERS.BETTER THAN DISKEEPER AND O&O DEFRAG.JUST INSTAL AND FORGET TYPE.LOW ON RESOURCES,DOESN’T CONFLICT WITH OTHER PROGRAMS AND DOESN’T CRASHES UR PC.STEALTHPATROL,SMARTPLACEMENT,OPTIWRITE IS ALWAYS ENABLED AND WORKING IN THE BACKGROUND PREVENTING AND ELIMINATING FURTHER DEFRAGS AS SOON AS PERFECTDISK 12 IS INSTALLED IN THE PC AND SIMPLY ONE OF THE BEST INBUILT FEATURE.AT FIRST YOU MAY GET CONFUSED BY USER INTERFACE BUT ONE CLOSE LOOK WILL BE MORE THAN ENOUGH TO COMPLETELY ABLE TO USE IT.JUST CLICK ANALYZE ON LEFT TOP OF YOUR PC, AFTER FINISHING DIRECTION WETHER TO DEFRAG OR NOT WILL BE PROVIDED IN TEXT FORM ON THE BOTTOM .THAT’S ALL YOU CAN DO MANUALLY OTHER THAN PERFECTDISK 12 AWESOME AUTOMATED FEATURES.I PERSONALLY WANT TO RECOMEND IT TO EVERY PC OWENERS.SCORES 5/5 IN MY CASE.