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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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-Pats

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I recently switched from Diskeeper to UltimateDefrag, by far the best defragging app Ive ever used. The customized options are awesome - games now load twice as fast in comparison to my system defragged with Diskeeper, O&O, and PerfectDisk. No background services with UD either. The only problem I have with UD is the boot time defrag does not work on Vista yet - http://www.disktrix.com has plans to make UD fully compatible with Vista soon.

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MrBear5587

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I voted for PerfectDisk.

If Diskeeper wasn't a)So damn expensive and b)Did a more thorough defrag pass, then I'd have voted for Diskeeper.

I find PerfectDisk still lacks a truely automatic defrag. With Diskeeper you can literally never think about Defragging again.

Perhaps in V9.

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stockwiz

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I like UltimateDefrag for my games drive because I can pick specific game directories to put on the "high performance" list while games I'm not playing and ISO and other files can go in the middle. Just because I don't use the file very often doesn't mean I won't use it, so it's nice to customize a bit and have whole game directories where they are needed.

For my windows drive I'm still experimenting .. I don't need something expensive and fancy that will defrag on the fly and run in the background 24/7.. I can defrag manually once in a while it's not something I put a lot of emphasis on.. so far ultimatedefrag is doing the trick.. being able to customize what goes where is a powerful feature.

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stockwiz

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hmm... can't seem to edit my last post.. after using UltimateDefrag more I must say I love it. I found some old hidden system files including hibernation files on other now "data" drives that I was able to delete and discovered just how large my vista system restore file was getting as I couldn't defrag any of it so I just used a batch file to erase it and limit it to 1 GB in size. This program lets me configure each drive to suit it's purpose.. I've got 4 drives.. one for OS, one for games and some data, one for all data, and one for the page file. I can defrag each one specifically to optimize performance and it does work nice.

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Harlem39s Finest

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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.

thanks ;)

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[deXter]

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I don't think any defragmentation program even comes close to Diskeeper simply because they've truly mastered automatic, no slowdown defragmentation.

Diskeeper fully, automatically, defrags all drives and that too, if and only if a defrag is required. So you might be thinking like, what happens if a defrag runs when you're playing a game or having an intense battle in an MMORPG? Well this is the best part - Diskeeper uses only the idle portions of your CPU to perform its operations. If a busy system is using, say, 90% CPU, Diskeeper will use only a part of the 10% idle time.

Now no other program has implemented something like this. Usually what other automatic defragmenters do is reduce the process priority to "Low" or "Below Normal". But this doesn't work out well - try using a system when its automatically defragmenting a heavily fragmented drive - you will find it sluggish. With Diskeeper, that doesn't happen.

Diskeeper will automatically decide which drives need defragmentation, when they need it, what sort of defrag is required, whether any file placement optimizations are required.. it does all this by collecting statistics of your drive usage and figures out stuff like how often your drives get fragmented, etc.

I mean, DK is so automatic, that all you need to do is install it and forget it! You don't even have to open it once, you don't need to configure ANYTHING.

Now as far as manual defragmentation is concerned - sure, Diskeeper isn't as good as PerfectDisk, but the thing is - why does anyone need to do a manual defrag in the first place? And is the amount of resources used to perform the kind of optimizations that PerfectDisk does, worth it? Does a drive's performance really increase by leaps and bounds when PerfectDisk defragments it? What is more important- the drive being defragmented or making sure there's no free space in between clusters of files?

And don't talk about price. PerfectDisk costs $45 and Diskeeper costs $50. I think its very much worth the $5 extra.

Forget manual or scheduled defrags. The era of fully autonomous defragmentation has arrived.

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