[thelist] My first Robot

[Chris W. Parker]

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> > [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Hershel Robinson
> > Sent: 23 July 2002 13:45
> > To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> > Subject: [thelist] My first Robot
> >
> > The client thinks he wants a
> > Windows platform
> > and we estimate that the traffic will be up to 5 Gigabytes a
> > month
>
> The client is, unfortunately, mistaken.  Throw that much
> crap through a Windows box and the hard disk'll be swiss
> cheese inside 3 months from fragmentation.
>
> And defragging a production server basically means taking
> it offline for about 6 hours.
>
> /me learned this one the hard way.

have you heard about diskeeper hershel? supposedly it can defragment in
the background as a service while the server is working preventing the
need of taking the server offline.

http://www.execsoft.com/diskeeper/diskeeper.asp?ad=w2kol2

(if anyone has experience with this, please share.)

chris.