Best defragmentation software

[randall.medrano]

any recomendations for a software???

thanx

[Quickstrike]

Hmm I have switched between Diskeeper and PerfectDisk several times (depends on which product is easier to find @ the time).

Didn't seem to notice a difference in performance. Maybe I should try PerfectDisk again and pay closer attention.

[devyant]

Well, I've ALSO switched from Diskeeper to PerfectDisk. Well, Diskeeper has been giving me strange issues after its defragmentation, and my Windows seemed to have minor problems every now and then. PerfectDisk, has never did, except that I cannot do a boot-time defrag due to some drivers running prior to the boot-time defrag.

[BryanChung]

Gosh looks like I have to try PerfectDisk

[danxiaogui86]

hehe. been using diskeeper for so long.. dun wanna try perfectdisk. but i'm going to now since all positive comment.

[Sputnik.RU]

I've been testing: Diskeeper, PerfectDisk, mst Defrag... I turned out using O&O Defrag Professional. It's simply very good software and really makes my computer working more smooth where the others couldn't. The first time you defrag your drive with O&O (using /name setting) will take some time. The defrags that follow (for example once a week) in /space setting are very fast :)

[BryanChung]

But how come I feel that Diskeeper defrags faster than PerfectDisk?

Normally Diskeeper will take me 10 minutes or below to dedrag. But PerfectDisk took me almost an hour.

[LastSamurai]

LOL you liars. I just had to give Perfectdisk another try after reading all your replies. and the hell with it, it still sucks as much as the last time I tried it. its ugly and slow, installs two services on your machine... only good thing about it is it has a very small download size. uninstalled it and went back to Diskeeper Pro.

[devyant]

We don't need too beautiful an application to do what it does very well, and PerfectDisk being slower is due to the fact that its much more thorough and can give you near-to-perfect undefragmented disk. I've tried O&O's defragmenter, and it has NEVER gave me the free space consolidation that PerfectDisk ALWAYS attains, except for the SPACE defragmentation, which still does not compare without the file placement technology.

[Stingray]

Perfect Disk does it for me.

[BryanChung]

But isn't TIME a factor for you guys?

[devyant]

Usually no, because defragmenting is a naturally time-consuming task, so most will just let it run through the night. Although lots of software claims to adjust resource usage according to user's needs, It hasn't worked really well for me.

[WiZzArD]

O&O Defrag Professional 8. Nothing else comes close.

[BryanChung]

Ermmm okieee ... personal perference ....

[SuperJediMedia]

I use Windows XP's too.

It really doesn't make TOO much difference, unless you are some kind of Speed Demon person.

[MrBear5587]

PerfectDisk gets my vote.

[Denis W. Veteran]

LOL you liars. I just had to give Perfectdisk another try after reading all your replies. and the hell with it, it still sucks as much as the last time I tried it. its ugly and slow, installs two services on your machine... only good thing about it is it has a very small download size. uninstalled it and went back to Diskeeper Pro.

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If I recall correctly, not only is Diskeeper's interface so disorganized (as it runs as a MMC snapin) but that greenish interface looks like ass. That's just my personal opinion.

The two services are the defrag engine and the scheduler. What about Diskeeper? Should be roughly the same.

Anyways, Diskeeper's defrag methods just aren't thorough enough. PerfectDisk does a better job. O&O Defrag may have the prettiest interface, but for some reason it really got my disk into a myriad of disk errors.

[Slimy]

diskeeper organizes the drive differently than perfectdisk does (and not as efficiently) so obviously when you defrag the disk with perfectdisk after you've been using diskeeper, it will go slow. it's changing everything to the max performance. after a couple of runs it will speedup. but why would you trade in the speed of the defrag for the actual performance gain of the whole defrag? perfectdisk is better in the sense that will actually improve performance.

[ozgeek]

I just use the built in XP defragmenter which I heard is a stripped down version of Diskeeper. Does the job perfectly.

[Veedems Veteran]

diskeeper organizes the drive differently than perfectdisk does (and not as efficiently) so obviously when you defrag the disk with perfectdisk after you've been using diskeeper, it will go slow. it's changing everything to the max performance. after a couple of runs it will speedup. but why would you trade in the speed of the defrag for the actual performance gain of the whole defrag? perfectdisk is better in the sense that will actually improve performance.

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But does PerfectDisk offer a VERY lightweight automatic defragging service? The one in Diskeeper is so beautiful that not only does it defrag when my system needs it (obviously), but it also uses almost no noticeable resources meaning I can literally play CS while it's working in the background with no real noticeable drop in performance.

[devyant]

But does PerfectDisk offer a VERY lightweight automatic defragging service? The one in Diskeeper is so beautiful that not only does it defrag when my system needs it (obviously), but it also uses almost no noticeable resources meaning I can literally play CS while it's working in the background with no real noticeable drop in performance.

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No, PerfectDisk does not have a service running to automatically defrag the system, but my experience with Diskeeper's bg defragmentation was bad. It caused a drag on my system when it started running even though I had selected the option to automatically adjust CPU usage accordingly. PerfectDisk does have a scheduler running in the background to run according to a user specified schedule.

[CommanderRomeo]

When PD defrags (at a time you pick) you can notice a slow down (yet with DK I couldnt) for some reason PD does a better job for me tho. And PD has a service running called scheduler. I want PD to a) make the scheduler take less ram and NOT have such a noticable prefomance hit when defraging.

-Romeo

[ShaneSparky_YYZ]

PerfectDisk

[insanekiwi]

diskeeper for me. love this program (Y)

[alpha_omega]

But does PerfectDisk offer a VERY lightweight automatic defragging service? The one in Diskeeper is so beautiful that not only does it defrag when my system needs it (obviously), but it also uses almost no noticeable resources meaning I can literally play CS while it's working in the background with no real noticeable drop in performance.

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For those performance freaks like me: If you only want the Diskeeper service active when running a defrag then make a file called "defrag.cmd" with the following content:

net start Diskeeper
C:\WINDOWS\system32\mmc.exe "C:\Program Files\Executive Software\Diskeeper\Diskeeper.msc"
net stop Diskeeper

(The last blank line is intentional)

If you use the Set It and Forget It feature then this tweak is not for you (the service has to be running all the time).

Edit: I forgot to tell that you have to set the 'Diskeeper Service' to 'manual'. So that it doesn't run at all when you start Windows (Start-->Run...->services.msc)

Edited July 11, 2005 by alpha_omega

[Slimy]

But does PerfectDisk offer a VERY lightweight automatic defragging service? The one in Diskeeper is so beautiful that not only does it defrag when my system needs it (obviously), but it also uses almost no noticeable resources meaning I can literally play CS while it's working in the background with no real noticeable drop in performance.

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i don't think it does but i still don't see the point of having such an option if diskeeper isn't doing a good job in the first place :pinch: