kinetix63 Veteran Posted January 3, 2007 Veteran Share Posted January 3, 2007 A fresh "Best Defragmenter" poll for 2007. Please use this as a reference when researching Defrag utilities. As time goes on, the poll can be updated to add further options. Happy voting! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Joey992 Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Anyone using UltimateDefrag besides me? I think its a great simple program that gets the job done without a lot of resource usage. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588276759 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Premgenius Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Diskeeper. :D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588306520 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Vettetech Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 I love Perfectdisk..............my drives are quieter. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588306974 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 frbubba Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 I have the same experience as Vettetech. My drives are quieter after using PD7 and if I do an offline defrag, the boot time is faster than it is with bootvis. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588307016 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Harlem39s Finest Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 what's the best free disk defragmenter ? :blink: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588307057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 rado354 Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Harlem39s Finest, I'm afraid there is no decent FREE defragmenter. Just use Windows Defrag. My favorite here is PerfectDisk :) However after testing almost all of them, you can hardly see any difference performance wise. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588307131 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Vettetech Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 I have the same experience as Vettetech. My drives are quieter after using PD7 and if I do an offline defrag, the boot time is faster than it is with bootvis. I know I thought it was odd at first but after talkin to some more people they also dont hear there drives as much. Diskeeper is the same as windows defrag. Sure Perfectdisk take about 2 hours to defrag both my drives but thats cause it does a "perfect" job. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588307566 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Komsip Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Anyone using UltimateDefrag besides me? I think its a great simple program that gets the job done without a lot of resource usage. Yes I do, and I love the options they have for specific files or file types or directories to decide where on the hard drive to put those. My vote absolutely goes to UltimateDefrag. I'm not sure but I think this might be my first post ever on Neowin. I'm a pretty long time lurker. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588310159 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bigmehdi Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 (edited) Hi, it seems there's too much defragmenter tool in the market. I've been reading many thread, and often arguments are: I prefer X and someone answer nope I prefer Y, which you guess is really instructive :whistle: Personnally I've been using diskeeper for years. But now I have a seagate 120Gb , and despite defragmenting , my hdd looked often busy. When I tried latest version of diskeeper 2007, things got even worse (as if my hdd was more busy than ever) I just switched today, to perfect disk, and I got the pleasant surprise to see that my hdd was more silent. I must also say, that I've disabled a lot of XP services, so maybe it's not just because of perfectdisk. ;) Also things I like about perfectdisk: compatible with vista & XP, while for diskeeper you must install a different version depending of your system. Never tried O&O defragment, but I tried O&O unerase v4 and got the feeling that the product sucks ..... Maybe because I'm just unexperimented. Anyway I don't like having too much option to tweak, and it seems the "advantage" of their defragment tool. Speedisk ? Well I hate Norton products ... (too bloated, or crap left on hdd even after uninstall) Conclusion: I stick for the moment with perfectdisk. I'm curious to see how good are these defragmenter: - DirMS/Buzzsaw (ugly website, but some good reviews) - Vopt (idem: ugly website, but some good reviews) - Ashampoo Magical defrag (because I liked some ashampoo products) Edited February 11, 2007 by bigmehdi Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588311669 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Vettetech Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Hi,it seems there's too much defragmenter tool in the market. I've been reading many thread, and often arguments are: I prefer X and someone answer nope I prefer Y, which you guess is really instructive :whistle: Personnally I've been using diskeeper for years. But now I have a seagate 120Gb , and despite defragmenting , my hdd looked often busy. When I tried latest version of diskeeper 2007, things got even worse (as if my hdd was more busy than ever) I just switched today, to perfect disk, and I got the pleasant surprise to see that my hdd was more silent. I must also say, that I've disabled a lot of XP services, so maybe it's not just because of perfectdisk. ;) Also things I like about perfectdisk: compatible with vista & XP, while for diskeeper you must install a different version depending of your system. Never tried O&O defragment, but I tried O&O unerase v4 and got the feeling that the product sucks ..... Maybe because I'm just unexperimented. Anyway I don't like having too much option to tweak, and it seems the "advantage" of their defragment tool. Speedisk ? Well I hate Norton products ... (too bloated, or crap left on hdd even after uninstall) Conclusion: I stick for the moment with perfectdisk. I'm curious to see how good are these defragmenter: - DirMS/Buzzsaw (ugly website, but some good reviews) - Vopt (idem: ugly website, but some good reviews) - Ashampoo Magical defrag (because I liked some ashampoo products) Its not the services. I have most services shut off. I have had Perfectdisk for about 4 months now and my pc has never run better. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588313134 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +Tantawi Subscriber² Posted February 13, 2007 Subscriber² Share Posted February 13, 2007 PerfectDisk (Y) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588318814 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Jeremy of Many Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Harlem39s Finest, I'm afraid there is no decent FREE defragmenter.Just use Windows Defrag. JKDefrag. It uses the Windows API like every other defragmenter. It can be run automatically using Windows Scheduling. It's very basic, open-source, no crap. I've switched to it from Diskeeper for a while to see how it compares with commercial products. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588320947 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 SacrificialSoldier Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 O&O Defrag All The Way!! S2 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588323465 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 zippo61 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 PerfectDisk is the best ;) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588345495 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ShadowVlican Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 O&O Defrag..... freaking fast stealth mode ability to defrag non-movable files with bootup defrag mode also ability to schedule like "set it and forget it" Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588364356 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Kukaraja Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 I use JKDefrag, it's free, safe (uses WinAPI) and easy to use. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588373219 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 L3thal Veteran Posted March 7, 2007 Veteran Share Posted March 7, 2007 Used Diskeeper 2007 and version 10 for a while and now that I tried PerfectDisk, Diskeeper has hit the dust :yes: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588375434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 123dva Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Defragging people, have you tried out this fragmentation analyzer, freeware, quite neat Disk performance analyzer Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588376248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Jeremy of Many Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Used Diskeeper 2007 and version 10 for a while and now that I tried PerfectDisk, Diskeeper has hit the dust :yes: What made you switch? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588377608 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 macstorm Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Just suddenly had to switch to Diskeeper2007 from PD8 due to constant BSOD while defragging lately. I sent the complete memory.dmp file to raxco support for analysis and they replied that culprit is the IdeChnDr.sys driver of IntelApplicationAccelerator. They ask me to upgrade this driver but it's indeed the latest version. I have no problems with DK2007 yet. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588378379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Jeremy of Many Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Nice troubleshooting! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588378649 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 tes1234 Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 OK Diskeeper was giving some problems so was looking for another software. Tried Magical defrag from Ashampoo was ok but not something i wanted. The found a software named DiskTrix Ultimate Defrag and wow it has made my system so damn fast. It took around 1 hour to do the initial defrag and now system running so smooth.. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588378828 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ZIPO Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 And how does UltimateDefrag stand against PerfectDisk or O&O Defrag? I'd like to give it a try if there's a trial available cause I think there are many less known programs which are better than the most popular ones. I particulary found this to be true in case of antiviruses. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588379432 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 tes1234 Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Actually i just defragmented my whole system and it feel a whole lot alive. Windows boot a bit faster, icons in downloads folder are generated faster. I have like 200 files in downloads folder all shareware or free ware apps. So it has made my system and file access much faster. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588382169 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ZIPO Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 I like their help file. Everything is thouroughly explained. From how drives operate to what defragmentation method should be used in a particular case. But they are proponents of single partition drives. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/526716-definitive-best-defragmenter-2007/page/2/#findComment-588383109 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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A fresh "Best Defragmenter" poll for 2007. Please use this as a reference when researching Defrag utilities. As time goes on, the poll can be updated to add further options.
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