Best defrag?

[desura]

Been doing some maintenance on my windows 10 pc. Right now the hard drive is defragging with defragging, it is giving times of like a day and a half remaining. What are the best defraggers? Noticeably better than built in Windows defrag?

 

[Elixer]

Defraggler works fine & is free.

 

[desura]

Hmm, O&O seems best from some benchmarks.

 

[TheRyuu]

And what exactly is wrong with the built-in Defrag util?

 

[Dahak]

And what exactly is wrong with the built-in Defrag util?

While good, sometimes it not aggressive enough as I have seen files that where still largely fragmented after running the built in defrag, vs say running defraggler

Personally I do not worry about it too much anymore.


Also it should be noted that if its a SSD, you should not need to run a defrag utility

 

[Yakk]

Used to run an old version of Smart Defrag which ran continuously in background. Unfortunately they moved this feature behind a pay wall in the last few versions, but you should still be able to give an old version.

 

[sm625]

MyDefrag v4.3.1

 

[Tweak155]

I thought the whole concept of defragging went away with FAT32... Never even thought to use it on NTFS.

 

[desura]

Well, I've run O&O about four times already on my HD. Pretty noticable improvements. My hard drive was so messed up that even with an SSD booster it was taking like 5 minutes to fully boot up.

 

[Puffnstuff]

I'm using Defraggler myself and apart from only being able to defrag one drive at a time I like it. Sure beats the built in defrag software or paying for a 3rd party utility like perfect disk like I've used in the past.

 

[TheRyuu]

Also it should be noted that if its a SSD, you should not need to run a defrag utility

More like you should not run a defrag utility on an SSD full stop. You can run the Windows Disk Optimizer utility on an SSD on the more recent versions of Windows (8+ I think) since that simply goes through and does TRIM.

Unless you're dealing with a drive which is >90% full the built in defrag util should be able to do a pretty good job. Unless you have some extremely odd usage patterns or the drive is extremely full I still fail to see a reason to use anything else but the built-in tool for this. Even for cases with a boot drive Windows already has built-in mechanisms to speed up booting up and application start times with its preloading ability.