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Definitive Best Defragmenter 2009


Definitive Best Defragmenter  

627 members have voted

  1. 1. Your Choice?

    • Auslogic
      57
    • DirMS/Buzzsaw
      2
    • Diskeeper
      77
    • JKDefrag
      72
    • Norton Speed Disk
      0
    • O&O Defrag
      71
    • PageDefrag
      1
    • PerfectDisk
      171
    • Vopt
      6
    • Windows Defrag
      102
    • Other (please specify below)
      68


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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!

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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.

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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?

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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....

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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?

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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.

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