Something better than Win2k Defrag

[LilScoooters]

Is there something better than win2k DeFragmenter....???

 

[John]

The full version of Diskeeper server.

 

[Shmorq]

The full diskeeper version is pretty good. Speeddisk included with Norton Utilities (or System Works ?) is also a very nice one.

 

[RC5Bri]

I would agree that the full version of Diskeeper is the best. It is a small program, and not bloated like other software suites.

 

[Sugadaddy]

Speed Disk comes with Norton Utilities, which is included in Norton Systemworks.

But I never use it, I thought you didn't need to defrag NTFS...

 

[John]

The only bad thing is that it's relatively expensive.

 

[Razorbacks]

Definately a vote for Diskeeper full version. The "set it and forget it" feature keeps my systems nice and tidy every week without intervention.
Excellent utility that is relatively small and just works--no bloat.

 

[Jhereg]

You can try out OOSofts defrag too. Its good

http://www.oosoft.de/english/products/ood2000pro/ood2000pro.html

 

[Jhereg]

<< Speed Disk comes with Norton Utilities, which is included in Norton Systemworks.

But I never use it, I thought you didn't need to defrag NTFS... >>



Nice Microsoft myth.. never could figure out why they stated that....
also I have heard some horror stories concerning Win2K and Norton Speed Disk....

 

[MichaelD]

I use Norton Speeddisk w/W2K and it works fine. It does give you a warning that Speeddisk isn't certified to work with NT5 (I assume "NT5" is W2K...) but I just click "Continue" and it does it's thing just fine.

 

[Shudder]

I use O&O's defragmenter. I like it.. it's about the same as Diskkeeper though, so whichever you can get, go for it. OO has a trial versionf or 30 days so ther'es no harm in giving it a shot.

I'd stay away from norton's speeddisk. Just because norton puts files where it thinks it'll be faster, doesn't mean that's where Windows thinks they should go. You'll get thrashing more than you could ever want when windows reads a file and when it writes it it has to go to a completely different part of the disk because well.. that's what it wants to do. Windows doesn't know which is frequently accessed, which isn't, written to, not written to. Norton makes assumptions.

I always thought this, and then I read the not even that biased publication by the author of diskkeeper. He makes a very good argument why optimization is pretty pointless, and it makes too much sense to write it off as biased propaganda.

Anyway.. go with diskkeeper or OO

edited: Plus I thought Speeddisk defragged the MFT while the OS was up and running, which is a no-no.

 

[Sniperatyourfeet]

Thx's everyone...i will look at all suggestions....