Windows 7 defrag — real world, real guy
Yesterday I wrote about Windows 7 defrag and the corporate environment. Now here’s a little on defragmenting with Windows 7 from a single user perspective. Greg Smith, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is a full-time software engineer, and also is a part time audio engineer. He wrote the following to me:
“I mainly use my PC for software development and productivity, but occasionally I use it for live recordings of small concerts around the area.
The computer is a self-built Intel Q9400 system with 4 GB RAM. There are two hard drives installed – a Western Digital 320 GB drive as my system drive, and a Western Digital 640 GB drive for storage. The system drive is partitioned for dual-booting. The outermost partition (200 GB) is my software development partition, which is running Windows 7 RC x64. The innermost partition (100 GB) is my recording partition, which is running a stripped-down version of Vista x64. The 640 GB storage drive is partitioned as one large partition.
Since I use my Windows 7 installation 99% of the time, that’s the Windows installation on which PerfectDisk is installed. It is configured for StealthPatrol on the Windows 7 partition and the Storage partition (I have the Vista partition set to manual). All my programs are installed on the 200 GB Windows 7 partition, but my data is entirely on the 640 GB storage partition. PerfectDisk keeps my program files and data perfectly optimized. I don’t even have to think about defragmenting my drives anymore – I just always have outstanding disk performance. This is especially important when recording, as the large audio files (sometimes several GB per track) can quickly become extremely fragmented. I simply kick off a SmartPlacement defrag on the storage partition before AND after a recording session, and everything is perfectly optimized.”
Greg also had a little to say about PerfectDisk support:
“Your support is simply amazing. If you have a problem, you are contacted within 24 hours, and often times within a few hours of your submission. The support staff are an absolute pleasure to work with - friendly, knowledgeable, competent, and above all — HELPFUL. Raxco has provided some of the best product support experiences I’ve ever had.”
You won’t get any of that from freeware or Microsoft.
the interface of Windows 7 is great but in my opinion Windows XP is still a very solid and stable operating system. Right now, I would never give up XP for Windows 7.
Hi bodydetox,
Thanks for the comment. It will be interesting to see how many people move and how many just stay with their proven XP solution,
Thanks,
Joe