Defrag Utilities?

[Jeff7181]

Just wondering what defragmentation software you guys use. I just downloaded a trial of O&O Defrag Professional and I defragged my secondary partition and arranged by path/name... I tested my transfer rates again at PCPitStop.com and my uncached speed jumped from about 4 MB/s to 13 MB/s. It took about 40 minutes to do about 2 GB of data though, so the 12 gig of junk on my primary partition will take quite a while I suppose. It has tons of options for defragging, you can even set it to defrag before windows boots so it defrags the swap file and all of Window's system/boot files.

 

[CraigRT]

I use Windows NT defrag (2K, XP)

works good.. no idea how good it really is, but no problems.

 

[LED]

I use various ones but may favorite and does much of the same is Perfect Disk...others in order are:
VoptXP
SystemSuite
Speed Disk

But what the Hey I'll try the one that you stated next time

 

[Mitzi]

Diskeeper 7 all the way! Been using it for months at work and at home - works great.

 

[Budman]

I use Executive Software Diskeeper.

 

[LED]

Forgot I use Diskeeper Lite as well BTA that would be about the same as using Windows XP defrag proggie

 

[gizbug]

Diskeeper by far is the best (use it with Windows XP)

 

[Wolfsraider]

thanks mitzi
trying it out now

 

[Agamar]

Yeah, all my NT servers get a load of Diskeeper. Just ordered the upgrade to 7.

 

[Jeff7181]

How much does Diskkeeper run? I know I could look online, but I'm wondering what a good price would be since the price of software can very greatly from one retailer to another.

 

[Wolfsraider]

after running the xp defrag and it still needed to be defragged i saw this post
ran diskeeper at boot up and then in windows here is the results

Findings on C:

Diskeeper has completed a defragmentation run on this volume and there remain 0 fragmented files and/or directories and 0 excess fragments. (There were 5250 excess fragments before the defragmentation run, and now there are 100% less.)

The average number of fragments per file is 1.00.

Congratulations! There are no excess file or directory fragments on this volume. The files on this volume are as defragmented as possible. Still, you should use the Smart Scheduling option in Diskeeper to automatically keep fragmentation at a low level. Click the Set It and Forget It button in the Diskeeper display to set up a Smart Schedule, or to confirm whether any schedules are set.

now i had not run defrag in a while lol guess it shows

thanks mitzi

their prices here

 

[Jeff7]

I too have used Diskeeper's Lite version, and it seems quite good.

 

[Twilling]

Norton Utilities.... anybody? I like Norton's suite of products...

 

[Bovinicus]

I use Norton Utilities as well. You can organize the location of files or directories individually. I don't really need any more functionality than that.

 

[ICEVaPa]

Does Diskeeper 7 cost anything???

or is it a free to download?

 

[AnitaPeterson]

ICEVaPa, I've answered to your question in your initial thread

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=33&threadid=948177&STARTPAGE=1

Diskeeper Lite (aka "free") version