Best defragmentation software

[randall.medrano]

any recomendations for a software???

thanx

[soldier1st]

i hate perfect disk.diskeeper is still good but i recently switched to O&O Defrag,i like the interface alot,it takes a bit more memory than diskeeper does but it is worth it.to those who have 1 gig of ram then thats nothing.

[sn00pie]

PerfectDisk.

[BryanChung]

PerfectDisk doesn't detect my MMCard when I put into my MMC-reader.

Anyway to make it detect it?

[Lighthalzen]

I tried lots, but I can only see performance increase in PerfectDisk.

[BryanChung]

Anyone knows to my above question?

[gertin]

I tested Diskeeper, then O&O Defrag and then PerfectDisk. Settled with O&O for a while a then switched to PerfectDisk.

[Street14]

Well after finally decideing it was time to upgrade my defrag software.

I came across a myriad of articles on the subject.

Contenders

Diskeeper

OO defrag

Perfect Disk

Voptxp

I used the fully functional trial ware for all of these.

I would have liked to try Winternals Defrag Manager but no trial software i could locate on there site.

Disk Keeper seems to do a OK job it is faster then the others. But i do see some short comings with it in its efficiency. Page file systems and Locked system files being some of them.

OO Defrag has a very nice interface and i feel it does do a better job of defraging then Diskeeper A very nice interface to it with some options i like. This is not so hard to use if you read the help me file as some have suggested. The methods of Defraging used by OO are a little different then Diskeeper. Over all i find this a better program in its efficiency then Diskeeper.

Perfect Disk Uses a different method all together then either OO or Diskeeper.

It uses a single pass rather then a multi pass to defrag. From what ive read this is a better method then a multipass for contingeous file relationship. In the end having one pass seems a good way to go.

The interface is not as nice as OO but still a good interface in its useage and information style.

This will defrag pagefile and locked files. I found this to be the most obvious of all benefits to a defrag process. For over a year i have had fraged locked and pagefile's exceeding 13% of a 12 gig partition. Perfect disk cleaned it up to a mear 0.04%. I confirmed this with analyzing with other defrag programs.

This is a little slower then either Diskeeper or OO Defrag but not as slow as the native Windows Defrag. I fully defraged 160 GB on 3 drives with over 1.5 million files ranging in size to 0-10GB This took a little bit of time but not so bad about 4 hours to complete. That may sound like alot but 1.5 million files spread across 10 partitions is not so bad.

I have yet to look at VoptXP and am not so sure i will as i am more then satisfied with Perfect Disk in its efficiency. The others are not bad programs in there own right but for me This is the way to go.

Perfect Disk Leads the way for me.

Perfect Disk 30 day fully functional trial ware

OO Defrag 30 day fully functional trial ware

Diskeeper 14 day fully functional trial ware

VoptXP 30 day fully functional trial ware

Edited August 24, 2005 by Street14

[Raa]

Go with Perfect Disk

It smokes everything else out there - I use it on my desktop, laptop. Dad uses it and a heap of my mates do. None of us have ever looked back :)

[sukamusiru]

I'm not really understanding why anyone would want additional resources given to a feature that checks drive fragmentation and automatically tries to fix it? Do you really move that many files that often? Is one good long thorough clean not comparable to n lessers spread across that same time period? If my house was on fire, I'd rather have the firemen liberally sink the thing instead of giving it some squirts every few hours. I guess I just don't have that many files and aren't obsessive-compulsive to defrag. :rolleyes:

Trying out PerfectDisk right now.