The Impact of Disk Fragmentation on Servers
Published 18th May 2009 | Source - Infrastructure | Pages - 8Testing Server Disk Defragmentation: IT professionals responsible for server hardware well understand the value that professional grade disk defragmentation software brings to their servers. Storage servers can experience high levels of disk thrashing (the constant writing and rewriting of small amounts of data) caused from excessive file fragmentation. Problems in delivering services to users however are difficult to directly trace to server fragmentation issues. Network and application issues have a much more visible impact on the performance of network-based services, especially when problems with those functions are encountered. But with the negative impact on ROI that network performance problems cause, IT pros would be ill-advised to overlook the advantages that assuring the optimization of the underlying hardware infrastructure can bring. Optimal disk performance translates into better ROI. Testing will bear this out.
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