Diskeeper SSD Optimizer for SSDs

Diskeeper Corporation at CES announced the unveiling of new HyperFast technology — the first-ever optimizer exclusively designed for faster performance and extended lifespan of Solid State Drives (SSDs).

With the promise of faster computing, SSD laptops or ‘netbooks’ are all the rage right now — Lenovo, Acer, Dell, Asus and Fujitsu-Siemens are all launching custom editions. But in reality, there is one caveat: PC operating systems are not optimized for this platform. Most SSDs experience a dramatic and noticeable deterioration in performance by as much as 80% over six months. They also possess a limited number of erase-write cycles, resulting in a short lifespan.

HyperFast specifically solves these issues by intelligently eliminating performance-degrading free space fragmentation, and reducing the aggregate erase-write cycles that the SSD would otherwise incur during normal usage. In other words, it preemptively optimizes free space at the operating system level itself, thereby ensuring the peak performance of the drive — and extending its very lifespan.

No scheduling or maintenance is required whatsoever to experience these benefits. With Diskeeper Corporation’s proprietary InvisiTasking® processing technology, all HyperFast operations take place completely automatically with zero overhead and zero resource conflict. It’s literally as simple as set it and forget it and your SSD-based laptop or netbook has instant performance.

  
Performance Benefits from HyperFast

To demonstrate this fact, benchmark tests were performed on an 8GB SSD in a simulated real world scenario to depict a customer’s environment over 6 months. With HyperFast SSD optimization enabled, performance gains were automatically realized with 5.9x faster reads, 19.5x faster writes, 3.9x faster random reads and 9.0x faster random writes (higher numbers indicate higher performance).

HyperFast is available with Diskeeper 2009 for an additional $25.00.