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Best Defragment Utility

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I'm looking for the best defragment utility that does it fast and cleans it my hard-drive up the best. Thanks.
 
imho, that would be diskeeper.
fast is a relative term though. if your disk is extremely fragmented its going to take time to defrag it no matter what app you use ;)
 
windows defrag is basically diskeeper lite. executive software is even credited in the 'about' menu. not a bad defragger at all the only thing that bothers me is that it will only do one disk at a time.
 
O&O Defrag. Its not as purdy as Diskeeper PRO. But i find it faster/cleaner. I like its different defrag modes.
 
I'm in love with Perfectdisk, I've tried all of them in the past, and Perfectdisk was the only one that made my system feel faster (and defrags fast in the background too).

I'm using O&O for the time being until Perfectdisk releases a version for x64. It's kind of a system hog (40mb background service 24/7), but it works.
 
serbiaNem said:
I'm using O&O for the time being until Perfectdisk releases a version for x64. It's kind of a system hog (40mb background service 24/7), but it works.
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I haven't noticed the service taking more than six megs on any of my systems. Which edition are you using?
 
I like Diskeeper. I have version 8.

I wanted to upgrade to version 9 for the fee, but they implemented it in a "Rebate" fashion (you have to pay full price, then apply for the rebate).

That pissed me off so I haven't upgraded yet, and won't until they get rid of that ridiculous policy. You buy and download right from their website. No reason for this rebate bullshit.

-Larry

dirtydr said:
imho, that would be diskeeper.
fast is a relative term though. if your disk is extremely fragmented its going to take time to defrag it no matter what app you use ;)
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I just bought Diskeeper 9 last week and I like it a lot, it's quick and defrags very well, much better than the older versions. I was previously using O&O and have PerfectDisk on my laptop, but Diskeeper seems to be doing a better job than both for me.
 
tdg said:
I just bought Diskeeper 9 last week and I like it a lot, it's quick and defrags very well, much better than the older versions. I was previously using O&O and have PerfectDisk on my laptop, but Diskeeper seems to be doing a better job than both for me.
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How are you measuring the results?
 
mikeblas said:
How are you measuring the results?
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Defragged with O&O and when it was finished, there was still a bit of fragmentation so I just decided to purchase and download Diskeeper right then, and defragged right away and it consolidated the data quite a bit better :)
 
tdg said:
Defragged with O&O and when it was finished, there was still a bit of fragmentation so I just decided to purchase and download Diskeeper right then, and defragged right away and it consolidated the data quite a bit better :)
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Yeah; O+O has a few different modes. If you don't take the time to learn it, you might find that you've run it for speed instead of completeness. Meanwhile, the fragmentation you noticed might have been caused by another task writing to the volume while fragmentation was running, or after it had just finished.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't like to see comparative product recommendations based on casual and unscientific measurements.
 
I've used them all starting with Norton Speedisk 14 years ago and I think PerfectDisk is the best of the bunch now. I did have a love afair with Disk Keeper for awhile though.

Robert
 
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