Diskeeper Sample White Paper

Other reasons for the increase in the usable life of the hardware includes the basic fact that by limiting fragmentation as a disk is used the workload on the disk drive is decreased, increasing the MTTF (Mean Time To Failure) when compared to hard drives that are not running Diskeeper. Reduced workloads on the drives have the corresponding effects of reducing heat and energy consumption which also aid in extending service life.

“By drastically reducing hard drive failures and I/O times we have been able to keep our servers on the job longer with no performance degradation.”

A common response to our survey relative to extended hardware life came from users who implemented Diskeeper on older systems running production applications and databases. These users reported that they were able to extend the life of these production systems and reported that their databases and servers were running faster and more reliably than prior to the installation of Diskeeper. While the initial thought was that Diskeeper would improve performance of these systems, the collateral impact is that since the performance of the systems was improved it was no longer necessary to replace the underlying hardware.

“One very noticeable benefit is I am only now in August of 2010 replacing Dell Dimension 2400 workstations that were purchased in 2004. Before Diskeeper these systems were bogged down with fragmentation and were noticeably poor performing, with Diskeeper they run like new for far, far longer than they would otherwise. I would have been justified replacing these systems in 2006 or 2007...certainly by 2008 or 2009. For them to be doing the job nearly 6 years later is impressive, considering the tech life cycle being much shorter than that generally.”