Be Warned of Hard Drives at Risk

BURBANK, CA–(EMWNews – July 17, 2008) – Being able to spot trouble before it occurs is

always a good thing. Airplanes have instruments that inform the pilot of

altitude, attitude and even the proximity of other aircrafts. Cars have

gauges that alert the driver if the vehicle is low on fuel or oil, if the

engine is overheating, and nowadays even if tires are low on air. Weather

stations have instrumentation that can spot severe storms many miles away,

often saving entire towns.

The builders of computers have instituted trouble warnings as well. Pop-up

messages warn of hardware problems, utilities such as Windows® Task Manager

allow monitoring of performance, application resource usage and networks,

and other utilities exist to monitor and warn of other problems.

Unfortunately, there is no native utility to warn of file fragmentation

levels on hard drives showing danger of decreasing disk performance and even the risk of

hard drive failure. Diskeeper® Corporation, developers of Diskeeper

automatic defragmentation solutions, has filled this gap with a product

called Disk Performance Analyzer for Networks™.

Disk Performance Analyzer for

Networks is a stand-alone utility that detects and reports

fragmentation-related performance loss on networked systems. It allows IT

personnel and system administrators to identify performance bottlenecks,

scan systems from one access point, and pinpoint system problems before

they become help desk headaches — without having to run painstaking manual

analysis on each system.

“With the aid of Disk Performance

Analyzer for Networks, I was able to locate servers in our environment that

were at risk of failure or had poor performance due to severe

fragmentation,” said Steven Enair, Senior Technology Specialist with Telus

Production Operations in Burnaby, B.C., Canada. “We have started

implementing Diskeeper through all server farms.”

“Disk Performance Analyzer for Networks alerted me to several servers in

our domain that needed my attention,” added Jasons Draus, Network Services

Manager with Deloitte & Touche in Guam and Micronesia. “It also showed me

how I was using my storage space in a concise, easy to read report.”

Additional features of the product include the ability to create custom

groups for easy management, to select systems to scan through the Active

Directory or IP addresses, and to run scheduled reports and have the

results emailed.

Disk Performance Analyzer will warn you of problems and dangers missed by

other utilities, and allow you to quickly take corrective actions. Download

it free of charge from the Diskeeper web site at http://www.diskeeper.com