Recommendation for Defragging software for Windows Home Server

[Dari]

You're not allowed to use the built in defragmenter so I was wondering which of these is better? Diskeeper is $20 more expensive than Perfectdisk. Is it worth the price difference?

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Dari
You're not allowed to use the built in defragmenter so I was wondering which of these is better? Diskeeper is $20 more expensive than Perfectdisk. Is it worth the price difference?

Well, by 'not allowed' its not recommended since the defrag pass tends to blow out the VSS cache. But snapshots were turned off in PP1 (or PP2) so that issue really doesn't matter. As such, you can just use the built in defrag.

 

[Dari]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: Dari
You're not allowed to use the built in defragmenter so I was wondering which of these is better? Diskeeper is $20 more expensive than Perfectdisk. Is it worth the price difference?

Well, by 'not allowed' its not recommended since the defrag pass tends to blow out the VSS cache. But snapshots were turned off in PP1 (or PP2) so that issue really doesn't matter. As such, you can just use the built in defrag.

Is there official confirmation from MS regarding this?

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Dari

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: Dari
You're not allowed to use the built in defragmenter so I was wondering which of these is better? Diskeeper is $20 more expensive than Perfectdisk. Is it worth the price difference?

Well, by 'not allowed' its not recommended since the defrag pass tends to blow out the VSS cache. But snapshots were turned off in PP1 (or PP2) so that issue really doesn't matter. As such, you can just use the built in defrag.

Is there official confirmation from MS regarding this?

The extender whitepaper talks about the vss/defrag issue and the pp1 (or pp2 I forget) readme mentions vss is now off.

 

[Nothinman]

You're not allowed to use the built in defragmenter so I was wondering which of these is better? Diskeeper is $20 more expensive than Perfectdisk. Is it worth the price difference?

Regardless of the VSS issue that bsobel mentiones I'm of the opinion that no defragger is worth the price. You've most likely already wasted more time thinking about the whole thing than you'll save by defragging anything.

 

[WildHorse]

Give this FREE pair of tools a try.

This is what I use.

See here

 

[California Roll]

Everything I've read on WHS says you don't need (and shouldn't) defrag it.