comments on third party program called Diskextender

[Guest Adam Raff]

Good Day,

 

Our company is looking into a product called Diskextender which moves files

from one location to another location and leaves a stub in it's place. Does

anybody use this product and if so what do you think of it (Pros and Cons)

and is there anything out there that you may feel is better.

 

Any recommendations or suggestions would be a great help.

 

Thank You

Adam Raff

[Guest Kerry Brown]

Re: comments on third party program called Diskextender

 

In what context are you going to use this? Anything that complicates backups

and restores is probably not a good thing. If you are running out of disk

space the only real solution is larger disks or move the files to a new

place with more room.

 

--

Kerry Brown

Microsoft MVP - Shell/User

http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/

 

 

 

"Adam Raff" <araff@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message

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> Good Day,

>

> Our company is looking into a product called Diskextender which moves

> files from one location to another location and leaves a stub in it's

> place. Does anybody use this product and if so what do you think of it

> (Pros and Cons) and is there anything out there that you may feel is

> better.

>

> Any recommendations or suggestions would be a great help.

>

> Thank You

> Adam Raff

>

[Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Re: comments on third party program called Diskextender

 

Adam Raff <araff@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:

> Good Day,

>

> Our company is looking into a product called Diskextender which moves

> files from one location to another location and leaves a stub in it's

> place. Does anybody use this product and if so what do you think of

> it (Pros and Cons) and is there anything out there that you may feel

> is better.

> Any recommendations or suggestions would be a great help.

>

> Thank You

> Adam Raff

 

I have to agree with the other reply. Disks are cheap. I haven't used or

seen DiskExtender, but I don't really see the point of it, given that

....well, given that disks are cheap. If you can't add more space to your

file server as is, look into getting another box running Windows Storage

Server or something.

[Guest Adam Raff]

Re: comments on third party program called Diskextender

 

We have decided not to use the product as the cost was to high for our

company. Also the product did not have some options that I hoped it would

have for the price.

 

To answer your question we have a lot of files of which we always seem to

need. I move older files to another server manually so that we can keep our

backup time down to a reasonable time. It has happened that a few times

users can not find said files and in essence they misplaced them at times.

This program looked great not only for backup but for file management.

After a certain time the file would be moved leaving a stub behind this

allowed the users to find there files when it moved to the other server

which is backed up less often as the files on that server are not as

important and did not require constant backup. This also reduced our backup

time on our primary servers.

 

thanks for your feedback

Adam Raff

 

 

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

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> Adam Raff <araff@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:

>> Good Day,

>>

>> Our company is looking into a product called Diskextender which moves

>> files from one location to another location and leaves a stub in it's

>> place. Does anybody use this product and if so what do you think of

>> it (Pros and Cons) and is there anything out there that you may feel

>> is better.

>> Any recommendations or suggestions would be a great help.

>>

>> Thank You

>> Adam Raff

>

> I have to agree with the other reply. Disks are cheap. I haven't used or

> seen DiskExtender, but I don't really see the point of it, given that

> ...well, given that disks are cheap. If you can't add more space to your

> file server as is, look into getting another box running Windows Storage

> Server or something.

>

[Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Re: comments on third party program called Diskextender

 

Adam Raff <araff@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:

> We have decided not to use the product as the cost was to high for our

> company. Also the product did not have some options that I hoped it

> would have for the price.

>

> To answer your question we have a lot of files of which we always

> seem to need. I move older files to another server manually so that

> we can keep our backup time down to a reasonable time. It has

> happened that a few times users can not find said files and in

> essence they misplaced them at times. This program looked great not

> only for backup but for file management. After a certain time the

> file would be moved leaving a stub behind this allowed the users to

> find there files when it moved to the other server which is backed up

> less often as the files on that server are not as important and did

> not require constant backup. This also reduced our backup time on

> our primary servers.

> thanks for your feedback

> Adam Raff

>

You're most welcome - thanks for posting back.

>

> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

> <lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmailatyahoo.com> wrote in

> message news:%237$IhfhUIHA.4532@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>> Adam Raff <araff@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:

>>> Good Day,

>>>

>>> Our company is looking into a product called Diskextender which

>>> moves files from one location to another location and leaves a stub

>>> in it's place. Does anybody use this product and if so what do you

>>> think of it (Pros and Cons) and is there anything out there that

>>> you may feel is better.

>>> Any recommendations or suggestions would be a great help.

>>>

>>> Thank You

>>> Adam Raff

>>

>> I have to agree with the other reply. Disks are cheap. I haven't

>> used or seen DiskExtender, but I don't really see the point of it,

>> given that ...well, given that disks are cheap. If you can't add

>> more space to your file server as is, look into getting another box

>> running Windows Storage Server or something.