Diskeeper to Achieve Transfer Rates Three Times Faster During Backup

An independent research revealed that companies can save time and reduce costs by optimizing backup procedures with degramentation from Diskeeper Corporation.

With the continuous expansion of organizational storage allocation requirements, the time required for file-based data backup continues to increase yet the time allotted for this data backup remains constant, exposing a critical issue.

When a disk is fragmented, its files are broken into numerous pieces which are scattered around the disk, rather than being joined together. Therefore, the disk head requires more time to move around to different points on the disk to read all file parts.

The more fragmentation, the more system performance and data access times will be affected making the level of fragmentation a determining factor of the impact on the time needed to run a backup.

The study showed that, heavily fragmented disks were only producing speeds of 16-20Mb/s, but with Diskeeper running, optimum speeds of up to 64Mb/s were constantly achieved. It was essential to defrag the systems to be able to maintain high levels of performance.

Keeping systems free of fragmentation also prevents critical system errors. Before the volumes were defragmented with Diskeeper, the backup software failed to complete the process six consecutive times, wasting about 33 hours of work in total.

Diskeeper 2008 with its new features, InvisiTasking and IFAAST keeps servers free of fragmentation and does it automatically with no impact on resources, leaving a system virtually fragment free. A defragged hard drive not only maximizes data access times, it also significantly reduces system errors.