Best defrag software?

I think Raxco PerfectDisk has some good settings that would help for gamers. I use O&O personally.
 
If you want a decent free alternative, try Defraggler.
It defrags free space after defragmenting the files.
It shows a list of all fragmented files and it even locates exactly where they are on the hard drive if you are curious.
Each individual file can be defragmented or the whole drive.

http://www.defraggler.com/
 
I used to use O&O until it fubared my main partition. Now, I just use windows defrag and it works great
 
Guys, the best one out there in my opinion is Disktrix Ultimate Defrag. It allows you to place certain folders on the outside of the hard disk and can place files sequentially on the disk for best performance. Placement of files on the disk has the biggest impact on HD performance. It can even "archive" files that you don't use often in the center of the HD. I recommend this tool highly and performance improvements are more than noticeable.
 
do NOT use O&O. I have used this on 2 different occasions and it fucked my drive both times.
 
joeynuggetz said:
Guys, the best one out there in my opinion is Disktrix Ultimate Defrag. It allows you to place certain folders on the outside of the hard disk and can place files sequentially on the disk for best performance. Placement of files on the disk has the biggest impact on HD performance. It can even "archive" files that you don't use often in the center of the HD. I recommend this tool highly and performance improvements are more than noticeable.
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Can you say place C://Program Files in the center and place C:// Games on the outside?
 
Ripskin said:
+1 for Windows Defrag :eek:
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hmm .. Never knew the Windows Defrag was good..
Honestly, I believe only ppl who do not know that there are 3rd party apps for defragmenting HDDs / ppl who do not have internet access use the inbuilt defragmenter....
 
halluc1nati0n said:
hmm .. Never knew the Windows Defrag was good..
Honestly, I believe only ppl who do not know that there are 3rd party apps for defragmenting HDDs / ppl who do not have internet access use the inbuilt defragmenter....
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Honestly, I'd bet most people have never defragged their hard drive at all, much less with 3rd party software. Even the ones with internet access. ;)
 
Yeah. I just use the windows defrag utility. I do it command line in my scheduled tasks.

"c:\windows\system32\defrag.exe c: /f" on monday at 3am
"c:\windows\system32\defrag.exe d: /f" on tuesday at 3am
"c:\windows\system32\defrag.exe e: /f" on wednesday at 3am
 
Nenu said:
If you want a decent free alternative, try Defraggler.
It defrags free space after defragmenting the files.
It shows a list of all fragmented files and it even locates exactly where they are on the hard drive if you are curious.
Each individual file can be defragmented or the whole drive.

http://www.defraggler.com/
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Agreed. The developers of Defraggler, Piriform, also make the extremely useful CCleaner. Both programs are free.
 
Do a forum search. One of our members did an exhaustive comparison last year on defraggers. I will post it if I find it.
 
joeynuggetz said:
Guys, the best one out there in my opinion is Disktrix Ultimate Defrag. It allows you to place certain folders on the outside of the hard disk and can place files sequentially on the disk for best performance. Placement of files on the disk has the biggest impact on HD performance. It can even "archive" files that you don't use often in the center of the HD. I recommend this tool highly and performance improvements are more than noticeable.
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Thanks for the heads up, just purchased it. Pretty slick software.
 
i used o&o defrag for a few years, and all the later versions would eventually say there was a problem with a partition and couldnt defrag. it was usually the system disk iirc. free space was not an issue, and i tried a bunch of tools to test the disk and everything came up nil. one day i couldnt read the partition at all and i had to format it. i switched to perfect disk and it has been working well for a long time. i'd like to find a free/oss defragger that works well and is not a pita to use.
 
drdeutsch said:
JKDefrag GUI version + PageDefrag.

Free and awesome.
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+1

I use this for my home computers, my previous job and my current job, in 2 years of use I have not had a single problem with the software.

This is one of the fastest defraggers I have tried and its list of options make it ideal for just about any user.
 
I just downloaded Ultimate Defrag after reading this thread since you guys said it could put folders and files on the outside or inside of the drive. I set it up to have my games and Windows on the outside, and program files on the inside. It makes a huge difference. I loaded up Oblivion and I have Qarl's Texture pack 3 installed, it was night and day. I got quite a bit of stuttering before, but afterwards it stutters for maybe a 1/4 of a second when it loads new areas.
 
I just downloaded Ultimate Defrag after reading this thread since you guys said it could put folders and files on the outside or inside of the drive. I set it up to have my games and Windows on the outside, and program files on the inside. It makes a huge difference. I loaded up Oblivion and I have Qarl's Texture pack 3 installed, it was night and day. I got quite a bit of stuttering before, but afterwards it stutters for maybe a 1/4 of a second when it loads new areas.
 
UltimateDefrag made a noticeable difference. I put my Steam folder on the outside and now maps load up several seconds faster. While it did take around 12 hours to defrag my 320GB hard drive, I'd say it's worth it.
 
I used to use O&O up until I switched to Vista, Vista locking files from being used totally broke O&O defrag and made it mess up the performance based defrags. It never screwed the partition but it was obvious that it wasn't working correctly.

Now a days I just leave Vistas in built defrag tool do the job, if you're after speed get a raptor for your primary drive, or a RAID 0 array, or both like I have, very fast.
 
Diskeeper is a great commercial software tool, but I'll have to check out Ultimate Defrag. It sounds like a tool that will speed things up.
 
JKDefrag (I use the PortableApps version) and UltraDefrag are my preferred defraggers. JKDefrag uses the built-in Windows defragging API, while UltraDefrag is an open source standalone defragger. Both have worked well for me with no problems and reasonable speed.
 
Too bad there isn't a delete feature. I saw my question already answered. Nevermind.
 
Whats a defragger? J/K

Really I just used my defragger from my TuneUp Utilities Prog.

Don't know much about it except to do it once in a while. What do you guys mean by putting files and folders on the "outside"

Thanks
 
xxkaliboyx said:
Whats a defragger? J/K

Really I just used my defragger from my TuneUp Utilities Prog.

Don't know much about it except to do it once in a while. What do you guys mean by putting files and folders on the "outside"

Thanks
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The clusters on the outskirts of the hard drive are faster than the clusters on the inside of the hard drive. UltimateDefrag lets you move stuff from the outside to the inside for storage and stuff that you don't use very often. Then you can move all your games and your Windows installation to the outside clusters for faster performance.
 
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