Defragger to help with performance

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M4573R

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Is there a defrag program that will move highly used data (or specified data) to the outside of the platters for better performance? Windows based for me. I don't have the money for SSD and short-stroking seems like a waste of space and raid doesn't appear to increase performance for games.

Thanks
 
i have always liked Ultimate Defrag. i have not used JKDefrag to compare but i prefer Ultimate Defrag over OO, Puran, Diskkeeper and a few others.

i am a tweaker, engineer and a perfectionist, though. UD seems to overwhelmed non-advanced PC users at first who just want their system to be faster. i have tried some of the "basic" auto-defrag features and it doesn't necessarily put the files i want so I do set it up to put my games at the outside and any storage/back on the inside. the only problem with Ultimate Defrag is that you need a 32 bit OS to use the Boot Time defrag to move the paging file.

here is my WD Raptor with ArmA, AmrA 2, Oblivion and Fallout3 at the outside of the tracks with the MFT(and other system $ files) located at the center of where i want the lowest access times (yellow and gray blocks).

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May I ask what settings you are currently using? ie. Consolodat defrag, high performance, respect archive, etc.

And how does this work with multiple partitions? I have my OS on one, and my games on another. Can I get my games AND important windows stuff all to the outer edge?
 
jkdefrag is good and no nonsense. I'll be testing out defraggler here at work today at lunch.
 
I use defraggler. I can't really compare it to anything else, other than the standard windows defrag tool.
 
M4573R said:
Is there a defrag program that will move highly used data (or specified data) to the outside of the platters for better performance?

Thanks
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Diskeeper 2k9 Pro and higher versions have a file-sequencing feature built-in. It benchmarks the filesystem and sequences files according to frequency of usage. It monitors the volume for a few days before making changes, so it's not instantaneous, and also, if it calculates that access time will not be improved, it will not move the files.. Well, you can specify files manually, but they don't recommend it. There are free trial versions of DK at their official website, and these can be used for a month before they expire.
 
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