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Definitive Best Defragmenter 2007

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Definitive Best Defragmenter  

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  1. 1. Your Choice?

    • DirMS/Buzzsaw
      2
    • Diskeeper
      289
    • Norton Speed Disk
      8
    • O&O Defrag
      200
    • PageDefrag
      3
    • PerfectDisk
      303
    • Vopt
      9
    • Windows Disk Defragmenter
      141
    • Other (Please specify below)
      74

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Slimy

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Here are the links to the programs in the poll:

http://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k

http://www.diskeeper.com

http://www.oo-software.com

http://www.vopt.com/products.htm

http://www.symantec.com

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PageDefrag.html

http://www.dirms.com/home/homepage.asp

http://freeweb.siol.net/razor256/xss/

edit: Last one is Power Defragmenter, should be added to the poll :)

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Guest Jeremy of Many

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Diskeeper 2007. I used PD7 & 8 but Diskeeper just allows you to totally forget about fragmentation. I've been in heated debates on several forums, particularly on Driverheaven where employees from thee two products replied many times with valuable information. I wanted to know which one was better, but of course always got the run-around or "use what you feel is best". So now I just take a step back and realize that if my system runs fast as it does right now and doesn't ever encounter any issues with delays or slowness and my fragmentation level is 0% all the time, then I need not waste time shoving my opinion down others' throats because they don't use what I use. If it works for me, then it's good. It's as simple as that. Does any other defragmenter defrag your HDD completely invisibly in the background without the need for scheduling? I don't think so.

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Nightwind Hawk

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Diskeeper 2007. I used PD7 & 8 but Diskeeper just allows you to totally forget about fragmentation. I've been in heated debates on several forums, particularly on Driverheaven where employees from thee two products replied many times with valuable information. I wanted to know which one was better, but of course always got the run-around or "use what you feel is best". So now I just take a step back and realize that if my system runs fast as it does right now and doesn't ever encounter any issues with delays or slowness and my fragmentation level is 0% all the time, then I need not waste time shoving my opinion down others' throats because they don't use what I use. If it works for me, then it's good. It's as simple as that. Does any other defragmenter defrag your HDD completely invisibly in the background without the need for scheduling? I don't think so.

Actually, Perfect Disk (ver. 8) does defrag in the background without scheduling for me. It's set to defrag during screensaver/idle time, max 1 time per 3 days.

I used to use Diskeeper, and then switched to PD from some favoring statistics. But honestly, they're probably the same, and if thers is ANY difference, it's not something that anybody could notice.

So, as you said, pick your choice. :)

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CPressland

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Perfect Disk defragments during screensavers yes, but it dosnt do a very good job and leaves things all over the hard drive when you come back to it.

Diskeeper 2007 is constantly defragmenting, whenever it sees a whole in your CPU vs IDE usage, it'll take advantage of it and defragment your files.

on that note, i've not had a single fragmented file on any of my 6 hard drives in 2 months!

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xerolide

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It may sound like a stupid question but is it worth paying for a defragmenting utility when Windows has one built in?

I'm wondering that too. A friend of mine just tried a defragmenting program out and said it made his computer run <capsomg>alot</capsomg> faster. I've never had a problem with the normal defragmenter with Windows, or is it just because I've never tried anything else out ? :unsure:

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cork1958

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I'm wondering that too. A friend of mine just tried a defragmenting program out and said it made his computer run <capsomg>alot</capsomg> faster. I've never had a problem with the normal defragmenter with Windows, or is it just because I've never tried anything else out ? :unsure:

Wondering if it will make a difference?

BIG TIME, it does. Especially with Vopt8, which gets my vote. I do also like Perfect Disk. Diskkeeper sucks, IMO.

Windows defragger is a POS, compared to ANY of these.

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Guest Jeremy of Many

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Diskkeeper sucks, IMO.
I'm using DK2007 and it's awesome. The fact that I never have to worry about fragmentation relieves a great deal off the shoulders. I've used PerfectDisk for a long time and while its thoroughness/effectiveness is terrific, it can cause excess stress on a HDD. In order to have files "Smart Placed", data has to be moved constantly. Say you've got a 1 GB program infront of 5 GBs of random files and then delete the 1GB. Those 5 GBs all have to be moved over 1 GB. I used to like having everything closest to the beginning of the disk as it could be, but the time : performance : workload ratio just isn't fair. Having them where they are as opposed to 1 GB over isn't going to make any difference when it comes to file access time. Maybe 1ms within the amount of time it takes the HDD to reach their locations.

With DK2007, it just defragments the files for you and uses IFAAST for the files you most commonly access. I respect your choice, but that's my opinion. :)

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