Definitive Best Defragmenter 2009

[Barney T. Administrators]

An updated "Best Defragmenter" poll for 2009. 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!

[soldier1st]

Anything but that Scientologist-supporting Diskeeper crap. :p

i agree, once i heard about that i stopped using diskeeper, will never use that ever again cuzz of that.

[Olemus]

Vista - Windows Defrag.

[Starbuck84]

JKDefrag for me.

I like the fact that it automatically defrags all the drives / partition with just one click, and that it's free. :p

[cyti]

Deffragler is free and efficient.

[fix-this!]

iobit smart defrag, its free and works as good as perfectdisk, same features too.

[Karl L.]

I'm a command line kinda guy; so I use Sysinternals Contig most of them time. It can defragment individual files or whole drives, be scheduled to run automatically (no longer necessary in Vista), or be run from a script. I think that it just invokes the default Windows Defragmenter though.

[simonlang]

in o&o defrag i trust! since many years. :D

[tano]

O&O... even if the RED method is a pain in the butt!!

[sc302 Veteran]

I have always used diskeeper. microsofts defrag from windows 2000-xp was based off of the retail version of diskeeper

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/227463/EN-US/

[way2quik]

Vista built-in defrag is really slow.

I think I may turn to 3rd party software such as Auslogic, Smart Disk or JKDefrag, whichever one works best for 64bit.

[Kronir]

I rather like Auslogics Disk Defrag; its fast and simple. I might have to take a look at PerfectDisk though...

Edit: nevermind, not for the $30 they charge for PerfectDisk. I'd like to see what it has to offer to be worth it... Is it really *that* much better?

Edited May 6, 2009 by 2Cold Scorpio

[way2quik]

^ Auslogic BOOST SPEED is $30.

Auglosic Defrag is free.

I just noticed that. :p

[The Canadian]

An updated "Best Defragmenter" poll for 2009. 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!

It would be better if this poll had reviews for each of the defrag applications....

[way2quik]

So I just used Auslogic Defrag and I noticed it would hang for 4 secs on files with .mkv and .avi extensions. My 1.5TB hard drive, with only 230GB free space (all video files) took 8 hours to completely defrag.

[08993]

Still using JkDefrag for a number of reasons.

1) Invokes the Windows API so it's as safe as houses.

2) There is a 64 bit version.

3) Can set up daily, weekly and monthly routines. I even have one I run when installing/uninstalling stuff.

4) Command line mode works great when invoked by Task Manager.

5) It's free.

6) It's small.

7) No Spyware/Adware/Links.

Some drawbacks for the sake of balance.

1) Need to learn the switches to make proper use of it.

[+Xinok Subscriber²]

I've switched to the newest version of Auslogics, for one reason:

I have some large files on my drive which get fragmented often (VirtualBox drives), and this option makes defragmenting so much faster.

[Hani]

which is better, JKDefrag or PerfectDisk?

also, what about jkdefrag phase 3 (fixup)? does it give performance boosts?

[Tommy DW]

Defraggler does the job for me just fine

[i_was_here]

It would be better if this poll had reviews for each of the defrag applications....

I would keep an eye on this blog for the 2009 Defrag shootout:

http://donnedwards.openaccess.co.za/search...Defragmentation

[Pallab]

I rather like Auslogics Disk Defrag; its fast and simple. I might have to take a look at PerfectDisk though...

Edit: nevermind, not for the $30 they charge for PerfectDisk. I'd like to see what it has to offer to be worth it... Is it really *that* much better?

I would say so. Its the only defrag software that had actually made me feel faster - the difference was noticeable. Its algorithm is super..don't know what it does, but windows explorer becomes super responsive - folders with hundreds of pictures and videos also open up instantly.

[npe]

JKDefrag

Small, free and does the job.

[Hani]

I would say so. Its the only defrag software that had actually made me feel faster - the difference was noticeable. Its algorithm is super..don't know what it does, but windows explorer becomes super responsive - folders with hundreds of pictures and videos also open up instantly.

how is it compared to jkdefrag?

[qdave]

Right now i am using windows 7 defragmenter. seemes ok so far.

[soldier1st]

auslogics. it seemed to help on vista over the built in defrag. used to take a few minutes to resume from sleep but i find most often it comes out in half that time.

[Pallab]

I didn't find any noticeable diff with JKDefrag. Its a pretty limited software. It can't defrag half the files. Doesn't support MFT optimisations and boottime defrag. Also moves large files to the end of the hd. Don't want this, since they can be data files used by games. Its placement logic is flawed.