The team at Raxco are pretty after Windows IT Pro Magazine selected Raxco’s PerfectDisk 2008 as its Editor’s Choice for best enterprise disk defragmenter in its upcoming May edition. In a two page review the reviewer, Eric B Rux, looked at three server level disk defragmenters - Diskeeper’s Diskeeper 2008 Server, O&O Software’s O&O Defrag 10 Server Edition, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 7, 2008
What is disk fragmentation and why does it happen? As files are stored, moved, deleted, updated and so on, over time they can be potentially stored on different areas of the disk rather than in a single block. This is called disk fragmentation. There could be thousands of parts of files scattered all over the disks [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Raxco will today release an update to their PerfectDisk range of disk defragmentation software, including a new version of PerfectDisk for Windows Home Server. PerfectDisk8 for Windows Home Server brings the full functionality of Raxco’s server-grade defragmentation products to Windows Home Server, although they are yet to integrate the software into the Windows Home Server Console, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 20, 2008
The folks over at Diskeeper Corporation have posted instructions on their company blog that gives in depth guidance on how to accomplish an installation of Diskeeper 2008 for Windows Home Server. They readily admit, as pointed out by several of their customers, that there is very little in the documentation that accompanies the downloaded files of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Over the past few weeks, hundreds of We Got Served readers have been voting for their favourite Windows Home Server hardware, software and community add-ins. On Christmas Day, voting closed and we’ve been counting the votes ever since. Today, on the first day of the New Year, we announce the results of the inaugural We [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 12, 2007
Thanks to everyone who entered last week’s Diskeeper 2008 HomeServer competition! We had a massive response from you all, and in fact, when the guys at Diskeeper read through everyone’s comments, they thought that they were so funny, that they gave us an upgrade and handed out not one, but six Diskeeper 2008 HomeServer licenses! So, today [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Update: The competition is now closed! Thanks to everyone that entered - we had a massive (and in parts massively funny) response from you all. You rock! As you know, Diskeeper 2008 HomeServer was released this week and the very nice people at Diskeeper Corp have agreed to hand over a free copy of the software (retails at $69.99) [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 5, 2007
Diskeeper Corporation today announced that Diskeeper 2008 HomeServer is now available to buy. We’ve previously previewed Diskeeper, which is a great solution for keeping your home server’s hard disks defragmented and running at optimal speed - it simply runs in the background on your home server and whenever the server is idle, gets to work optimising [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 5, 2007
Ok, I know we’ve already had a few different announcements and launches already, and many of you already have your OEM copies installed, but for the rest of the world out there, Microsoft are today announcing the official release and general availability of Windows Home Server. The release coincides (neatly) with the news that the HP Mediasmart [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 3, 2007
The following beta testing opportunity has just popped up from Diskeeper - get in quick!: 50 Windows Home Server beta testers need to test the NEW Diskeeper® Home Server (English Language edition)! This is a limited program. Only the first 50 completed and signed applicants will be accepted AND, you must be a previous customer of [...]
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
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