Diskeeper 2008 Pro Premier Single License Pack

by Diskkeeper

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• ASIN: B000XUCN1Q
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #109,053 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 26, 2007

Product Description

Diskeeper 2008 Premier edition puts your system in the driver's seat, allowing you to enjoy unprecedented performance and reliability while you work. Fragmented hard drives drain critical system resources and compromise almost every aspect of daily computer use, leading to longer load times and persistent lags. Diskeeper 2008 elevates system performance, debugging fragmentation-based problems as they occur without ever compromising vital system resources, even during times of heaviest demand. InvisiTasking provides true transparent, background processing technology allowing for Diskeeper 2008 to defragment your computer in real-time, eliminating the need for cumbersome maintenance operations. Diskeeper 2008 Professional edition enhances the reliability and performance of your computer automatically. Now, more than ever, it is important to have a system that is reliable and performs at the peak of its ability. Simply install Diskeeper 2008 and your computer will run more reliably than it ever has before. Real-time defragmentation automatically handles fragmentation as it occurs, providing maximum system performance at all times. Diskeeper's logic controller has been re-designed to deliver performance benefits faster and more efficiently, which detects various volume and system conditions and chooses the most effective algorithm. Boot-Time Mode safely performs Microsoft-recommended defragmentation of critical system files. Fragshield is a feature which dynamically prevents framentation of critical system files, maintaining system stability and reliability. It helps you configure your MFTs (Master File Tables - the place where information about every file and director on an NTFS drive is stored) and paging files (a hidden file on your computer's hard drive that Windows XP & Vista uses as if it were RAM).

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a review of Diskeeper 2008 Pro Premier, February 8, 2008

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Mark Dengler (Richmond, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Diskeeper 2008 Pro Premier Single License Pack (CD-ROM)

I have been using various iterations of Diskeeper since Windows NT. That first version completely trashed my system.

I haven't had a problem with Diskeeper since then and the 2008 version finally adds a feature, "InvisiTasking", that should have been built into Windows from the beginning: continuous and unobtrusive prevention of hard drive fragmentation. On the rare occasions when I manually defragment one of the 3 hard drives on the machine, there's very little to clean up. I no longer have to suffer through the sluggishness and sometimes complete non-responsiveness when manually defragging the system drive. It has made the machine noticeably faster.

What's not to like?

Unlike previous release, the 2008 version opens additional windows when you manually defragment a drive, an unnecessary complication.

As with Windows Vista, Diskeeper's marketing department has created a bewildering array of more and less crippled product versions. Only the most expensive version supports the TB hard drives that are starting to become mainstream. Carefully check the feature table to make sure you get what you need: http://www.diskeeper.com/diskeeper/home/dk2008comparisonchart-home.asp

Also like Microsoft, Diskeeper '08 requires on-line activation so its a question what happens when you want to move the utility to your next computer.

Lastly, Diskeeper sends an inordinate amount of spam about the wonders of its product.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Important Tool for Modern Data Storage Needs, November 24, 2007

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Robert L. Stinnett (Boonville, MO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Diskeeper 2008 Pro Premier Single License Pack (CD-ROM)

Data - our hard disks are overflowing with it. Everything from documents, to digital photographs, the latest iTune downloads and video fill our systems to the brim. It's not uncommon to see computers with 500GB or more of storage space to accomodate our growing need for more storage. With our growing storage needs comes another problem -- keeping that data optimized for read and write access. Years ago, this wasn't a problem as machines were CPU-bound, that is the bottleneck on the system was the CPU, not the disks themselves. Today, that is no longer true. With dual-core and (soon) quad-core systems finding their way into our homes, the bottleneck has become the hard drives and other data storage devices -- keeping up with the demand placed on them to access your data and deliver it to the computer for processing.

Diskeeper 2008 helps unclog the bottleneck in your computer system by defragmenting your drives to keep your files in one place for increased throughput and accessibility, plus also optimizing data to keep the most frequently accessed files within easy "reach".

I've been a user of Diskeeper for years, and the 2008 version continues to deliver in the performance and reliability spectrum. One of the best features of the program is its ability to defragment "on the fly", or in the background as I like to call it. Instead of having a weekly, or daily, defragmentation cycle that could tie up your resources and slow your system down, Diskeeper uses idle resources as you work to keep your files defragmented. This helps keep everything running smooth, but at the same time does not slow your system down or steal away CPU or I/O cycles from what you are working on -- if the system needs them, Diskeeper will give them up and wait until more idle time becomes available.

Another area that Diskeeper helps keep optimized is your systems MFT (Master File Table) and paging files (Virtual memory). These are files used by Windows to help keep track of where your files are (think of the MFT as a huge library card catalog) and also to swap programs in and out of memory as needed. It's critically important to keep your paging file defragmented since any access to it can slow your system down -- and having the system jumping all over the place looking for parts of the file can slow you down dramatically.

Overall, Diskeeper 2008 is a great product for anyone who uses their computer extensively to do digital photography, digital video, recording or playing back audio files or just has a lot of data that gets frequently accessed. It's a great product that has continued to evolve over the years to meet the growing data storage needs of both home and business users.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Diskeeper 2008 Pro Premier is worth it, March 31, 2008

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Ken Dillon "Software Developer" (San Diego, CA Usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Diskeeper 2008 Pro Premier Single License Pack (CD-ROM)

As a software engineer with over twenty years of experience, I've used a variety of disk defragmentation software. Over the years, Diskeeper has been consistently one of the best. I was initially skeptical that the new I-FAAST would be worth the extra $$$ for the Pro Premier version; however, there was a perceptible difference (after about two weeks) with I-FAAST. The difference was most noticeable when I let my trial version lapse, and I-FAAST stopped running. Needless to say, I upgraded to the Pro Premier version. If you have a good sized, modern hard drive, and want the most out of your system, Diskeeper Pro Premier is hard to beat.