Hi all,

 

Is there any consensus on defragmantation software for Windows 2003?

I know it comes with it's own version of Diskkeeper natively.

Is there any benifit of upgrading to the full blown version of Diskkeeper?

 

Our Poweredge 2850 has a Dell EMC Fibre optic raid array attached with heaps of free space (1.2TB total, 800GB free), but incredibly fragmented, also the local 400 gig SCSI drive is also badly fragmented.

 

I've noticed that there is a high average disk queue for the raid array drive, and it almost never seems to bottom out until times like lunch time when people are not using it. It is a document archive, and the number of users on the system is < 10.

I am wondering if fragmentation could be playing it's part in this. (On top of 4 other performance gaining fixes I've identified).

 

Thanks in advance,

Terry