Best degrag utility?

[imported_apocalypse]

Whats the best defrag utility for Vista?

 

[mbshinde78]

Try DiskKeeper. It is one of the best tools. PerfectDisk is also good.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

i used to use diskeeper, but now i use o&o.

i find it much better than DK.

 

[Ryland]

I used to use diskkeeper but switched to Perfectdisk because it just seems to handle idle defragging better.

 

[Nothinman]

Just leave the defragger that it comes with do it's job, it's not worth worrying about.

 

[compman25]

I use Smart Defrag, free and does a good job.

 

[Jahee]

Whats wrong with the standard Windows one?

 

[evident]

Originally posted by: Jahee
Whats wrong with the standard Windows one?

I too want to know this. Do the other programs defrag better and yield better performance?

 

[imported_apocalypse]

Originally posted by: Jahee
Whats wrong with the standard Windows one?

Well in Win XP, Diskeeper was faster than the standard one, not sure about Vista, which is why I'm asking.

The vista one doesn't seem to include a progress bar?

 

[lxskllr]

Schedule it to work overnight. Watching defrag progress is boring.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

JKDefrag

 

[corkyg]

As soon as SS Drives are common, defrag will become obsolete. Studies have shown that defragging has literally no effect on SSD performance, and in fact, can be harmful to the NAND-based drives.

 

[Nothinman]

The vista one doesn't seem to include a progress bar?

Because it's not something that you're supposed to worry about, just let the system handle it.

As soon as SS Drives are common, defrag will become obsolete.

It's been virtually obsolete for quite a while now. Filesystem fragmentation just doesn't have the affect that defrag software vendors would like you to believe.

 

[martensite]

Originally posted by: corkyg
As soon as SS Drives are common, defrag will become obsolete. Studies have shown that defragging has literally no effect on SSD performance, and in fact, can be harmful to the NAND-based drives.

Some googling throws up this link:
http://downloads.diskeeper.com/pdf/HyperFast.pdf
Apacer and Diskeeper seem to have tied up to produce software optimized SSD drives. I don't know whether HyperFast is a defragmenter or something else altogether.
Apparently free space fragmentation is what affects write performance (not read performance though).

I've never used an SSD drive, so i don't know how these things compare to the spinning platter magnetic drives in performance. The closest I've come has been with the 'hybrid' Seagate drive in my notebook, and that thing is so lousy :frown: that I've disabled the onboard flash memory in order to preserve performance.

 

[Jahee]

Originally posted by: apocalypse

Originally posted by: Jahee
Whats wrong with the standard Windows one?

Well in Win XP, Diskeeper was faster than the standard one, not sure about Vista, which is why I'm asking.

The vista one doesn't seem to include a progress bar?

I know, i found this slightly annoying. Also, it doesn't even have a confirmation message or report when its finished, which i found confusing.

 

[Modelworks]

The biggest thing for me is the defrag program must have an option to just defragment a file or directory and not the whole drive.
I have hundreds of GB of data that has no need to be defragmented, but then I have some files , like HD video editing that need to be contiguous.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: lxskllr
Schedule it to work overnight. Watching defrag progress is boring.

I remember, when I was incredibely bored, I used to watch the win98se defragger. It was almost amusing to watch the individual blocks get moved around in sync with the sound of my HDD crunching.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: lxskllr
Schedule it to work overnight. Watching defrag progress is boring.

I remember, when I was incredibely bored, I used to watch the win98se defragger. It was almost amusing to watch the individual blocks get moved around in sync with the sound of my HDD crunching.

I used to do the same thing :^D I'm not sure it was as much out of interest as it was compulsion. I should have been doing something else, but I "had" to sit there and watch the defragger :^P

 

[imported_apocalypse]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
The biggest thing for me is the defrag program must have an option to just defragment a file or directory and not the whole drive.
I have hundreds of GB of data that has no need to be defragmented, but then I have some files , like HD video editing that need to be contiguous.

which one does that?

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: lxskllr
Schedule it to work overnight. Watching defrag progress is boring.

I remember, when I was incredibely bored, I used to watch the win98se defragger. It was almost amusing to watch the individual blocks get moved around in sync with the sound of my HDD crunching.

haha i have done the same thing >.>

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: apocalypse

Originally posted by: Modelworks
The biggest thing for me is the defrag program must have an option to just defragment a file or directory and not the whole drive.
I have hundreds of GB of data that has no need to be defragmented, but then I have some files , like HD video editing that need to be contiguous.

which one does that?

This one and its free:
http://wincontig.mdtzone.it/en/

 

[Pelu]

Sometimes I think de-fragmentation is only good to save power because the HDD read heads move less lol...

 

[Rhonda the Sly]

Maybe, but you have to defrag the HD which will probably offset the gains.

 

[techmanc]

Defraggler from http://www.defraggler.com/download rocks it free and it will defrag file folder or drive

 

[0roo0roo]

hm thumb drive... wonder how good it is at defraging system files and such

 

[0roo0roo]

guess not http://donnedwards.openaccess....ook-at-defraggler.html
http://donnedwards.openaccess....frag-shootout-all.html