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I am the SVP of Technology Strategy here at Condusiv.

So in the overall what is the benefit in terms of performance, savings on SSDs replacements and the product cost? This for sure has to come with some system load. Aka the product need to cache the write data before it can be written to the disk with optimized order.

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That means they need to have some driver inside/above Windows kernel that catches all the data (similar to Double-Take Availability HA product) and then “cache” this data to save them to disk in better shape. Not all data going to disk has to be in RAM. You say that Condusiv is taking the data on the fly for writes. With SSDs, the time-delay is minimum/almost 0?ĭespite the fact that majority of environment is virtual and the fragmentation becomes even less problem as the virtual disk is not usually spanned thru whole physical RAID array. Your absolutely right, SSDs get fragmented and the de-frag makes it only harder.īut honestly – the fragmentation was main problem for HDDs when the head spindle took extra time to get the fragmented file.

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The fact that Condusiv offers defragmentation and optimization for both HDD and SSD disks is great, and layering a centralized management console on top of their client software is another plus. After all, storage is one of the four key server subsystems (the others being processor, memory, and network). In my experience, an enterprise-class defragmenter is a 'no–brainer' for systems administrators whose livelihood depends on optimizing server performance. Condusiv also offers discounted licensing for academic use. SSDkeeper Professional, Server, and Home editions are available as single-user (technically operating-system) or volume licenses. Okay, let's wrap up-I know I threw a lot of information at you in this product review. Policy-based software deployment and service configuration.You can undertake several valuable administrative actions with Diskeeper Administrator, including: Let me walk you through the SSDkeeper user interface in the next figure: File Performance Optimization: This speaks to the fact that SSDkeeper runs in the background and performs dynamic read/write optimization with minimal system impact.IntelliWrite: Reduces write amplification by optimizing SSD data allocation.IntelliMemory: SSDkeeper uses some of the host's physical memory to cache SSD read requests.

Condusiv has three core SSDkeeper services at play here: The 'runs as a service' bit is actually very important because SSDkeeper was written to run in the background and optimize SSD read/write operations on the fly. Besides the SSDkeeper desktop application, the software installs itself as an autostart service. The deployment package is typical and fits easily into your existing software deployment toolset.

Server: Can be centrally managed runs on Windows Server.

Professional: Can be centrally managed runs on Windows Client only.

Home: Personal use only runs on Windows Client only.

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You can request a free 30-day demo of any of three SSDkeeper stock-keeping units (SKUs): I've been a Diskeeper user for many, many years, and I'm happy that Condusiv developed a safe method for optimizing SSDs. Today I will introduce you to Condusiv's new SSDkeeper product. This is called 'write amplification,' and it's a really bad deal for SSD drives. The SSD 'Achilles' heel' is what Condusiv calls 'death by 1000 cuts.' In other words, when you write a new file to an SSD, the drive performs far more than a single write operation to make room for the new data. SSDs have a predetermined lifetime in terms of how many write operations the drives can experience before becoming unstable. Once again, read Condusiv's literature for the explanation for this, but let me sum it up in layman's terms. The second statement, however, is indeed true. This is, once again, because Windows uses the NTFS cluster map on SSDs just as it does with HDDs.

SSDs do indeed produce a type of fragmentation even though an SSD has no moving, mechanical parts. That running traditional defragmentation on an SSD reduces the drive's lifetime.