Nstl Testing Of Windows 2000 'Disk Defragmenter' Released In Seven Languages At Pc Expo - Software Review - Evaluation

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor, July 2, 2001

A new NSTL Lab report will be released in seven Asian and European languages during PC Expo this week. The report titled, "Comparison Testing: Diskeeper vs. the Windows 2000 Disk Defragmenter," reveals how dependence on the manual disk defragmenter included in the Windows 2000 operating system, could create a number of significant problems for network administrators running enterprise systems worldwide.

"As Windows 2000 continues to be deployed in corporations globally, we felt it was important to provide the IT community with information that would educate them on the advantages of using Diskeeper in an enterprise environment over the manual defragmenter built into Windows 2000," said Lloyd Holder, CEO of NSTL. While this report was first released in an English only version a short time ago, it has created significant interest and positive feedback. "With all of the interest the English version is creating in North America, we have received many requests to have this report translated for wider use."

NSTL provided the IT community with the first clinical evidence of the level of system performance gains possible through routine network defragmentation when it began testing disk fragmentation in 1999. Through a series of tests conducted on Windows-based enterprises, NSTL labs discovered performance gains of between 56% and 81% on NT servers and workstations -- and over 200% on those running the Windows 2000 operating system.

In their latest study, NSTL's lab engineers tested the speed and performance of the manual 'disk defragmenter' included in Windows 2000 against the leading third party network defragmenter, Executive Software's Diskeeper. According to the report, "After extensive testing, NSTL found that Diskeeper was between three and five times faster than the Windows 2000 Disk Defragmenter when defragging drives. In addition, NSTL discovered that Diskeeper did a much more thorough job of defragging the test drives."

In a separate report released last year by analysts at IDC further supporting the use of a network defrag utility, analysts found that corporations were losing as much as $50 billion annually from system performance bottlenecks and unnecessary hardware upgrades that network defragmenters could have economically prevented. And, the reported also pointed out, that "The decision to defragment the enterprise automatically verses manually will save companies thousands if not millions of dollars."