Defrag software

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » May 23rd, 2006, 10:20

What defrag software does everyone use, other than the standard windows supplied, and do you think the other products do a better job?

I've used Diskeeper in the past and it seemed to do a better defrag and has scheduling/screensaver options but I don't really need them.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 23rd, 2006, 10:26

i swear by diskeeper, works fine, lets you schedule stuff if you want to, doesn't hurt system performance while not in use.

and yes, i'm certain it does a better job, and it's prettier.

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » May 23rd, 2006, 11:09

Diskeeper version 9 does the trick.

I kick a defrag off once a month manually, and let it run for an hour or so while I'm away from the PC.

I've never known anyone recommend anythign else, so that's probably your best bet narf.

Post by **FatherJack** » May 23rd, 2006, 11:44

I have disk the size of hueg, so my defrags never actually complete. I use Norton, kick them off daily and halt them at a set time.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » May 23rd, 2006, 12:53

Well it's good that I've swept up Diskeeper 10 last night then. The other one someone mentioned to me was PerfectDisk but I know nothing about it, anyone else tried it?

I don't think I want to go anywhere near Norton products, I've never liked yellow.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » May 23rd, 2006, 12:56

I'm using a free version of O&O Defrag at the moment. It seems win enough.

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » May 23rd, 2006, 16:09

I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that the makers of Diskeeper were the team behind the builtin defragmentation tool in Windows XP, so if anybody knows how to defrag a disk using XP, it ought to be them.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 23rd, 2006, 16:13

Woo Elephant Yeah wrote:I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that the makers of Diskeeper were the team behind the builtin defragmentation tool in Windows XP, so if anybody knows how to defrag a disk using XP, it ought to be them.

they were, the built in is basically diskeeper-light.

pixie pie · Post by **pixie pie** » May 23rd, 2006, 19:05

spoodie wrote:Well it's good that I've swept up Diskeeper 10 last night then. The other one someone mentioned to me was PerfectDisk but I know nothing about it, anyone else tried it?

I used perfectdisk a while ago, they may have released a newer version since then, it seemed to work quite well, it was definitely better than normal XP defragger, but I am yet to try diskeeper to compare, where can I acquire it?

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » May 23rd, 2006, 19:17

pixie pie wrote:I used perfectdisk a while ago, they may have released a newer version since then, it seemed to work quite well, it was definitely better than normal XP defragger, but I am yet to try diskeeper to compare, where can I acquire it?

I got mine from www.demonoid.com, using it now and all is good. It's doing a slightly more thorough job than the built in windows one.

pixie pie · Post by **pixie pie** » May 24th, 2006, 20:11

Cor blimey guvnor! Since doing a run of Diskeeper, on a fairly recently (Less than a week) defrag using Windows normal, I then defragged it using diskeeper, and it says it had increased the efficiency of the disk by 50%! This sounds too impressive to be true, I suppose it was in a pretty knackered state before.. but still Woo

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » May 25th, 2006, 8:51

pixie pie wrote:Cor blimey guvnor! Since doing a run of Diskeeper, on a fairly recently (Less than a week) defrag using Windows normal, I then defragged it using diskeeper, and it says it had increased the efficiency of the disk by 50%! This sounds too impressive to be true, I suppose it was in a pretty knackered state before.. but still Woo

It's worth using an additional defrag application if you want to eek out that last little bit of performance from your disk, especially if you play stuff like bf2 which checks your game files for hacks for every new map that loads. It makes a significant difference in load times.

Post by **TezzRexx** » October 17th, 2008, 23:34

Would people still recommend Diskeeper?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 17th, 2008, 23:44

TezzRexx wrote:Would people still recommend Diskeeper?

I use O&O now, diskeeper took against my setup on the gonk, both are fine generally though.

oh, and diskeeper has links with scientology.

Shada · Post by **Shada** » October 18th, 2008, 10:12

I wouldn't use Diskeeper now, no. I use PerfectDisk, but I have to disable all its ffffuucking processes. Why can't it just have ONE process that runs when I WANT to defrag? :(

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » October 18th, 2008, 10:37

O&O defrag seems quite good so far, some good functions. And doesn't contain alien souls, presumably.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » October 18th, 2008, 12:32

I use Defraggler because I can stuff it on a USB stick. I'm not one for scheduled maintenance, but it ends up getting done fairly regularly anyway.
It's made by the CCleaner guys.

TheJockGit · Post by **TheJockGit** » October 18th, 2008, 14:15

I have a floorware version of Auslogics Disk Defrag, seems OK so far.

Post by **TezzRexx** » October 19th, 2008, 15:38

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:oh, and diskeeper has links with scientology.

WUT

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 19th, 2008, 15:44

TezzRexx wrote:WUT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskeeper#Controversy