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!

[Premgenius]

Diskeeper is fantastic

[VidER]

Defraggler does the job for me just fine

Exactly. Why isn't it mentioned in the list?

Guys don't forget to add it in the 2009 version.

VidER

[soonerproud]

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.

There is a gui front end for Contig called Power Defragmenter GUI that works incredibly well and is free. You will still need to download the latest version of Contig and just place it in the same extracted folder before running PDGUI. The program will launch Contig for you and will give you a gui to work with the command line defragmenting options of Contig.

Power Defragmenter GUI

Contig

I use the built in defragger in Windows and just run PDFGUI once a month to defrag files that are missed by the built in defrag of Windows.

[sbrads]

I'll tell a story about XP's defragger vs. JKDefrag (now MyDefrag). My daughter came to me asking if I could fix her 2 yr old HP laptop as it had become really slow since updating Firefox to ver.3. It was taking a full 1 minute to start Firefox after a cold boot, but nosing around showed that everything was pretty slow not just Firefox and it was hard drive loading that was the problem, CPU and memory usage was OK. The drive was 1/4 full. Running JKDefrag's Analyzer showed the pattern of file locations as basically scattered all over the drive. I then ran XP's defrag tool, then Firefox loaded in 50 seconds after a cold boot, and running JKDefrag's Analyzer showed that the files were still scattered everywhere. I then ran JkDefrag's Fast Optimize which isn't its most effective weaponry but a good all rounder (very slow on its first run but very quick on subsequent runs), and now Firefox starts up in 10 seconds.

[iaTa]

Diskeeper with Hyperfast for SSD drives.

Works pretty well at optimising free space which allows for more sequential writes and thus speeds up general SSD usage :)

That along with zFlashpoint and I have a blazing fast system.

[NeHoMaR]

Is still PefectDisk the only one able to defrag the UsnJrnl file?

[gertin]

Diskeeper with Hyperfast for SSD drives.

Works pretty well at optimising free space which allows for more sequential writes and thus speeds up general SSD usage :)

That along with zFlashpoint and I have a blazing fast system.

There really isn't any point in defragmenting a SSD disk. Also, I'm not sure Diskeeper Hyperfast does anything useful at all. You might want to read this.

[Buio]

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

Same here, I also like IObit Smart Defrag.

http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html

[Buio]

The new Auslogic version made me go back to them. I used Auslogic Disk Defrag before and liked it and the new v3 has a lot of new good features.

[Deathknight74]

iobit smart defrag

[doncoyote.cl]

Perfectdisk is just... perfect