O&O Defrag Server also optimizes data images

With O&O Defrag you can make your Windows substantially quicker. If you work on computers a lot, then slow system and program starts, endless rendering and memory processes, or even system crashes when playing can quickly ruin your enjoyment. Defragmenting your PC can hugely accelerate the speed you can work on your PC. When you defragment, those files fragmented across the hard disk are logically rearranged so that files can be quickly recognized and processed by the hardware. Performance gains of up to 100% are not uncommon!

But did you also know that O&O Defrag can play a crucial role in your backup and system imaging strategy? Read on to see how O&O Defrag helped a customer avoid having to totally revamp their company backup strategy.

O&O Defrag accelerates Backups and System Images

It’s acknowledged as an open issue by vendors of backup software that fragmented disks can cause the actual backup or image to fail and with it the Checksum Test. The reason for that is because fragmented files make this process excruciatingly slow which may lead to a corrupted backup.

In the case of a disk failure a corrupted backup might even be worse since it could lead to a complete data loss. That is exactly why a regular defragmentation of your disks is so important for your data backups and images.

O&O Defrag Server Edition optimizes SMI’s Backup Performance

Our customer SMI is doing a backup of their system on a daily basis. These backups, sometimes up to 400 GB, go to a disk during the night time and then to tape during the day.  Thanks to O&O Defrag Server Edition they have not only optimized the actual performance of their servers but have also been able to retain their existing backup strategy, the changing of which would have resulted in substantial costs and time issues.

O&O Software saved us from having to completely rethink our backup strategy. We tried many products, but only O&O Defrag Server is able to defrag these enormous, sometimes 400 GB files. All other products we tried simply couldn‘t do it, even though we have more than doubled the disk space available, and several GB of RAM. Many of them didn‘t even try, they simply failed.“

You can read the whole SMI success story right here.

Try or buy O&O Defrag for speed and security 

Visit our website or send us an e-mail to sales@oo-software.com and we will help you get your PCs and servers running like new again and secure your data backups and images – all with one product!

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O&O Defrag: Behind the scenes

Slips of paper in a shoe box What does O&O Defrag actually do? This question is as old as the product itself. In 1998 when we released the first version of O&O Defrag this question cropped up. To best illustrate what fragmentation and defragmentation mean we made the comparison back then with a shoe box: … Read more

O&O Defrag 18 – made simple

Feedback from our customers is crucial As we were deciding which new functions should be integrated into the new version 18 of O&O Defrag we took a long, hard look at the feedback gathered over the years from our customers. And the bottom line was this: nothing was missing! This in itself did not come … Read more

O&O Defrag turns 18 – and goes hybrid

What is the “Cloud”? The Cloud is actually nothing more than a relatively new word used to describe a technology that we have been using for years: a provider offers computer performance and/or storage space over the internet. Services such as e-mail or document management can also be offered in this way. So services such … Read more

The new O&O Defrag 16

en – After a year of development work, the time has finally come: the new O&O Defrag 16 is now available! Anyone familiar with the previous versions of O&O Defrag will immediately recognize that we have designed a brand new interface. It is cleaner and adapts to the modern design of Windows 8. Needless to say, … Read more

Which defragmentation method is the best?

That is why I would like to introduce you briefly to the methods and in which scenarios they work best.  O&O Defrag offers in total eight methods in the current version 15: STEALTH SPACE COMPLETE/Name COMPLETE/Modified COMPLETE/Access OPTIMIZE OPTIMIZE/Quick OPTIMIZE/Complete The first five methods are the standard ones in O&O Defrag. The OPTIMIZE methods are … Read more

What are the benefits of periodic defragmentation?

No, there’s really no need for defragmentation if a user is happy with the computer’s speed. But that’s always been the case. Today’s computers are naturally much faster than they were in the days of Windows NT 4 or Windows 2000. But the physical aspect of defragmentation has not changed at all because Windows is … Read more

O&O Defrag 15 ist da!

O&O Defrag

Letztendlich ist es bei O&O Defrag 15 eigentlich jetzt so, dass man es nur noch zu installieren braucht. Sämtliche Einstellungen und die automatische Hintegrunddefragmentierung sind sofort aktiv, so dass man sich keine Gedanken mehr zu machen braucht. Und vor allem: es läuft unauffällig und ruhig im Hintergrund, so dass der oder die geneigte Anwenderin nicht … Read more

O&O Defrag – Methode versus Zone

Hinzu kam, dass viele unserer Anwender die aus den vorherigen Versionen bekannten Methoden wie STEALTH und SPACE vermissten. Diese waren natürlich noch vorhanden, nur aufgrund der eingeschalteten Zoneneinteilung nicht einsetzbar, da diese Methoden natürlich die “klassische” Anordnung der Dateien, d.h. alle Dateien kontinuierlich hintereinander abgelegt, benutzen. Und damit würden sie die Zonen wieder aufheben. In … Read more

Defragmentierung kann Ihre Daten retten

Die meisten PC- Anwender denken bei Defragmentierung sofort an Beschleunigung und Optimierung des Rechners. Das stimmt auch, denn durch die kontinuierliche Anordnung der Dateien auf der Festplatte können diese schneller vom Betriebssystem gelesen werden, was eine deutliche Beschleunigung aller Dateiprozesse bedeutet. Und das ist genau der Sinn einer solchen Neuanordnung. Dass aber eine Defragmentierung mit … Read more

O&O Defrag 14.5: Methode vertreibt Zone

Dateifragmente sortieren und zusammenfassen mit Stealth, Space und Complete Das Update auf O&O Defrag 14.5 stellt die bekannten Methoden Stealth, Space und Complete wieder in den Vordergrund, alternativ kann die seit Version 12 integrierte Zoneneinteilung gewählt werden. Ebenfalls neu: Beim Starten des Programmes wird automatisch eine Analyse aller Laufwerke durchgeführt. Für Besitzer von O&O Defrag … Read more

O&O Defrag und Solid State Drives

Solid State Drives (kurz SSD oder auch „Flash-Laufwerke“) sind in den vergangenen Jahren immer populärer geworden und treten als sehr schnelle Speichermedien in Konkurrenz zu den herkömmlichen Festplatten. Durch den alleinigen Einsatz von Speicherbausteinen entfallen sämtliche beweglichen Mechanikteile einer Festplatte, was sich in einem geringeren Stromverbrauch und einer geringeren Wärmeentwicklung niederschlägt. Darüber hinaus arbeiten SSDs … Read more