Perfect Disk Smartplacement

[devnulllore]

Hi,

I am playing with Perfect Disks Smartplacement setting of performance aggresive. has anyone else used this with any luck?

Thanks,

[CPressland]

People really need to get off the defragmentation bandwagon. Windows, Mac and Linux all handle Defragmentation by themselves. Advanced defrag utils may provide you with more info, but the chances of it actually affecting the performance of your system are slim to none.

[Stingray]

  On 22/03/2011 at 12:52, Vegetunks said:

People really need to get off the defragmentation bandwagon. Windows, Mac and Linux all handle Defragmentation by themselves. Advanced defrag utils may provide you with more info, but the chances of it actually affecting the performance of your system are slim to none.

Agreed. Stop wasting time and money.

[devnulllore]

While I appreciate the differences of opinion I am looking for an answer from someone who has used the product as questiioned.

Thanks,

[Reacon]

Performance aggressive is optimized to move the head less, and therefore speed up reading processes.

It's a tad bit horrible to use if your hard drive's contents are constantly changing, as it offers little above that of the other SmartPlacement options. The main focus is just to have your hard drive defragged, and your files grouped, which the others do quite efficiently.

[DDStriker]

  On 22/03/2011 at 12:52, Vegetunks said:

People really need to get off the defragmentation bandwagon. Windows, Mac and Linux all handle Defragmentation by themselves. Advanced defrag utils may provide you with more info, but the chances of it actually affecting the performance of your system are slim to none.

  On 22/03/2011 at 13:15, Stingray said:

Agreed. Stop wasting time and money.

My reduced boot time from 5 minutes to 63 seconds would like to say hello

"windows handling it by itself" my ass >_>

[+Xinok Subscriber²]

  On 23/03/2011 at 05:03, DDStriker said:

My reduced boot time from 5 minutes to 63 seconds would like to say hello

"windows handling it by itself" my ass >_>

5 minute boot time? :blink: My computer takes maybe 30 seconds to boot with just Windows 7 defrag.

[Nick H. Supervisor]

  On 22/03/2011 at 12:52, Vegetunks said:

People really need to get off the defragmentation bandwagon. Windows, Mac and Linux all handle Defragmentation by themselves. Advanced defrag utils may provide you with more info, but the chances of it actually affecting the performance of your system are slim to none.

While I agree that Mac seems to not have a defragmentation issue, the defrag option that came with Windows XP is not as good as some of the free options out there. It is slow and I generally found that there was a larger amount of defragmentation left over after it had run than when I used freeware options. But it's possible they improved their defrag option with Windows Vista and 7.

I wouldn't pay for a defrag option though. The free options are perfectly good enough.

[DDStriker]

  On 23/03/2011 at 06:08, Xinok said:

5 minute boot time? :blink: My computer takes maybe 30 seconds to boot with just Windows 7 defrag.

hard drive filled up I cleaned it up significantly however the performance never returned (as expected afaik the windows defray doesn't automaticlly run)

my point was to vegetrunks claim of windows doing it by itsself

either way defraggler does a nice job and provides me visual information that I like to see like the old defragger in windows millenium

[devnulllore]

Ok here is what the guy at Asus saiid. Run HD Tach and if I get around a 60 to be happy because with my MB, Sata II drives and Win XP that is about the best I can get without upgrading to a 10,000 RPM or SSD drive.

I just did an HD tach and got score of 65 with an average of 54.4 and a burst of 130.9. I will redefrag at SmartPlacement Classic and test again (should not take too long as I just reinstalled the other day and the boot drive is not too full) for research purposes then we can use this post for others as well.

Wish me luck!

[devnulllore]

  On 24/03/2011 at 03:35, devnulllore said:

Ok here is what the guy at Asus saiid. Run HD Tach and if I get around a 60 to be happy because with my MB, Sata II drives and Win XP that is about the best I can get without upgrading to a 10,000 RPM or SSD drive.

I just did an HD tach and got score of 65 with an average of 54.4 and a burst of 130.9. I will redefrag at SmartPlacement Classic and test again (should not take too long as I just reinstalled the other day and the boot drive is not too full) for research purposes then we can use this post for others as well.

Wish me luck!

I am sorry, let me reiterate. The 65 was at the front of the drive, the 54.4 was across the whole drive and the 130.9 was burst

[Reacon]

Be sure to post back. I'd love to see the performance difference, myself!

[devnulllore]

After re-defragging using the default Smartplacement classic I saw no improvement overall. My burst speed did go from 130.9 to 131.8 however negligable I did not see a single drop spike in performance like I saw twice in performance mode. I guess I will leave it in classic mode for a while and see how things fair in the long run. BTW I did use aggressive space consolidation and changed the dates to 60 for rarely used and 30 for recently used.

Thanks

[soldier1st]

i am opting to go the direction that Vegetunks goes as far as defrag is concerned. the only improvement that it may bring, is if a file is in say 1 mil pieces or if you got an old drive, then it may help. and Windows does take care of itself, though in Vista/7 it does a bit better job than xp.

[DDStriker]

Overall disk performance in a benchmark and fragmented files are two seperate things

you will get those same results if the disk was 100% empty

[SoCalRox]

Is there something similar to HD Tach that works with Windows 7?

[devnulllore]

I just want the most used files at the front of the drive to decrease read time and enable "short stroking" but I believe Smartplacement Performance leaves the drive more susceptible to fragmentation forcing one to defrag more often.

Any thoughts on this?