Definitive Best Defragmenter 2007

[kinetix63 Veteran]

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!

[Joey992]

Anyone using UltimateDefrag besides me? I think its a great simple program that gets the job done without a lot of resource usage.

[Premgenius]

Diskeeper. :D

[Vettetech]

I love Perfectdisk..............my drives are quieter.

[frbubba]

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.

[Harlem39s Finest]

what's the best free disk defragmenter ? :blink:

[rado354]

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.

[Vettetech]

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.

[Komsip]

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.

[bigmehdi]

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

[Vettetech]

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.

[+Tantawi Subscriber²]

PerfectDisk (Y)

[Guest Jeremy of Many]

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.

[SacrificialSoldier]

O&O Defrag All The Way!!

S2

[zippo61]

PerfectDisk is the best ;)

[ShadowVlican]

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"

[Kukaraja]

I use JKDefrag, it's free, safe (uses WinAPI) and easy to use.

[L3thal Veteran]

Used Diskeeper 2007 and version 10 for a while and now that I tried PerfectDisk, Diskeeper has hit the dust :yes:

[123dva]

Defragging people, have you tried out this fragmentation analyzer, freeware, quite neat

Disk performance analyzer

[Guest Jeremy of Many]

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?

[macstorm]

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.

[Guest Jeremy of Many]

Nice troubleshooting!

[tes1234]

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..

[ZIPO]

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.

[tes1234]

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.

[ZIPO]

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.