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Diskeeper or PerfectDisk

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Martyn

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I have tried both Diskeeper and PerfectDisk and I must say they both took over 24 hours to defragmentate my 130gb partition and I never really noticed much of a speed difference.

Now however I have formatted my computer and I am looking to try either Diskeeper of PerfectDisk again. So which one do you think I should go for?

Feedback would be appreciated.

P.S. This is an independant thread from the "best defrager" as I only want feedback on the above mentioned two products. So dont be giving me stick about how this question is asked at least 10 times a week.

Thanks

Martyn

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Slimy

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Diskeeper I think is winning on reputation, and because one person likes it everyone follow suit.

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yep, perfectdisk is actually much better in my opinion, it actually increases performance, diskeeper is faster but doesn't really do much and people like it because its fast, they don't realize it's not very effective.

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Yes, PerfectDisk is the way to go, just after one defrag and you feel the difference. But I've got the problem of it not being able to do boot-time defrag due to some driver startup conflicts. I'm not alone, so i presume Raxco will be releasing a new version soon :shifty:

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JoeBonJoey

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The built-in defrag in windows 2000/xp is great, but it doesn't defrag your registry and it takes quite a while to complete the defragging too, that's why i personally use Diskeeper to defrag my hard drive, it defrags so much quicker than the windows version.

BTW, the defragging built in windows is the "lite" version of Diskeeper ;)

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JRosenfeld

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Well, I use Diskeeper 9 pro set and forget most of the time, but also have Perfectdisk 7, and use this from time to time for one or two features that Diskeeper pro does not have. For example offline defrag with Perfect disk also defreags the metadata files, which Diskeeper does not do (noticed some pink lines on the performance map after defragging with Diskeeper? chances are these are fragmented metadata files).

Diskeeper is much faster because it does not worry unduly trying to pack the files as closely as possible, Perfectdisk makes a point of doing this, and takes much longer. Using Perfect disk with the let Perfectdisk manage (recommended) option puts the files in date order, but this is not actually the most efficient; Diskeeper uses the same method as Windows XP (layout.ini in prefetch folder), putting files likely to be needed together next to each other (Perfectdisk does have that option also, but you have to change the configuration).

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Bearded Kirklander

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Perfect Disk is not perfect. I defragged my drive with the very latest version and it did NOT make the disk contiguous:

perdisk1.png

That is after it finished. I did a second run and screen captured at 99% so you could see it in progress.

I'm not saying that Perfect Disk is not a good product, but I am expressing dismay that this program, just like all the others, seems to fail to actually do the job properly.

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quick

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Perfect Disk is not perfect.  I defragged my drive with the very latest version and it did NOT make the disk contiguous:

perdisk1.png

That is after it finished.  I did a second run and screen captured at 99% so you could see it in progress.

I'm not saying that Perfect Disk is not a good product, but I am expressing dismay that this program, just like all the others, seems to fail to actually do the job properly.

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Did you pick aggressive free space consolidation? Also maybe alot of your programs were in use? Did you close all open programs and services associated with them, and then try again?

I haven't seen anything close to that using perfectdisk.

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Bearded Kirklander

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Did you pick aggressive free space consolidation? Also maybe alot of your programs were in use? Did you close all open programs and services associated with them, and then try again?

I haven't seen anything close to that using perfectdisk.

You mean Smart Placement? I ran the program in default with Smart Placement. I did not adjust any other settings.

I run a really lean XP in Classic mode with almost nothing running that I can discern. I limit much in the MSCONFIG area in terms of loaded applications.

I will look for that configuration option and try again - I'm a total n00b on this app, and when I do comparisons, out of fairness I try to test default configurations first. Duplicates the users "out of box" experience, as it were.

I'll report back as updates warrant. :)

Thanks for the post.

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quick

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You mean Smart Placement?  I ran the program in default with Smart Placement.  I did not adjust any other settings.

I run a really lean XP in Classic mode with almost nothing running that I can discern.  I limit much in the MSCONFIG area in terms of loaded applications.

I will look for that configuration option and try again - I'm a total n00b on this app, and when I do comparisons, out of fairness I try to test default configurations first.  Duplicates the users "out of box" experience, as it were. 

I'll report back as updates warrant. :)

Thanks for the post.

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If you right click on the drive pick properties, then you will see a check box "Aggressive free space consolidation..."

It's under "Online Defrag Settings" tab..

See if that helps any.

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Bearded Kirklander

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First, thanks for the help. :)

Second, it is an odd placement for these settings.

Instead of being under TOOLS > ADVANCED CONFIGURATION menu and dialog, where all of the other key settings seem to be, these additional settings are under the DEFRAGMENT > DRIVE PROPERTIES menu and dialog, not where one would expect, I guess.

That said, the settings are nevertheless there. So, I started with this:

perdisk1.png

No matter what I did inside Windows, it would not improve, even with the Aggressive Free Space Consolidation option checked. But, when poking around the tabs, I saw the Offline Defrag Settings dialog, and decided to check it out. So, I saw these two screens when looking into the Drive Properties entry under Defragment:

perdisk2.png

perdisk3.png

Once I selected the Offline Defrag Settings and told it to defrag next time I rebooted, I ended up with this:

perdisk4.png

Which is MUCH closer to what one would expect.

So, even though the default config was lacking, the options to configure Perfect Disk sure seem to be there, just in a place I would not have looked, I guess. The key seems to be that the thing can defrag before it loads the rest of Windows XP. Since I know how to toggle that function on and off when I want to defrag, I can now configure it to provide the most thorough defrag that I can seem to locate within the program.

Just wanted to check in and do the update. Yeah, it takes a while, and yeah, you have to jump through a few hoops, but this Disk Perfect thing don't seem to be too bad. I'll poke around more and figure out the swap file / page file thing and see what up.

Thanks again for the assistance,

BK

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