UltimateDefrag - is this the best defragger ever?

PerfectDisk crash on my system...

 

I have done so with UD, but as i told you, here no evidence of speed improvement. I also use only 40% of my partition 'C' and 50% of partition 'D'.

 

mustve read too fast sry bout that

 

Gave this a try, and I gotta tell you that I am impressed.

I did not use the default settings, and took the time to read the help file that comes with it, set everything for performance, and this is a solid piece of software.

Just to note: If it is speed you are after, it is better to NOT partition the drive that contains your OS. Use a second HD to hold your data files, and ONLY have your OS on a fast seek drive (EX: Western Digital Raptor XXGB 10K RPM SATA-150 Hard Drive). Now, if you want to save money, sure, partition as much as you want.

 

I've done this seven months ago, but I keep PerfectDisk anyway. Not many people like to separate their personal data from their system partition. Just you, me and a few aliens.

 

Raptors have a high cost per GB compared with others HDDs. Also, they are very noisy. Very good, fast, reliable and barely audible HDDs are the new WD Caviar SE/RE2 drives. If I have a 320 GB primary drive it´s a waste dedicate it only to Windows

 

lucas1985>
I used "Raptors" as an example. Any fast seek drive will work.

Quote:"If I have a 320 GB primary drive it´s a waste dedicate it only to Windows"

Yes. You are correct. Just buy a smaller GB drive.

Again, I am just talking "if you want the faster speed". For some, this may not be the best solution because of the extra $$.

 

Agreed
I´d wish to know how UD can improve the performance in RAID setups, specially in Matrix RAID
Perhaps UD only focus in single drive/single partition systems

 

Hey, Peter,
Are you planning on using only 3% of all that space

 

New version available; v.1.34.

"Some systems were experiencing Stack Overflow errors causing the program to terminate unexpectedly.This has been corrected in this version."


Registered users are now being sent emails regarding updates, etc.

 

Hello Peter,

At least you got some spare space for add-ons...

 

Another vote for AusLogic FREE Defrag. I own PefectDisk Version 6.0 and I prefer AusLogic.

 

Hi, folks: hi, Thankful, it is nice to hear you have secured a good free Defrag. If you ever have a chance to test newer perfect disk (now is v.8 ), I can assure you that you will definately feel the "impact" of its improvement. BTW, Diskeeper Pro premier v.11(2007) can provide same degree of feeling as well.

 

Perhaps PerfectDisk Version 8 is new and improved. However, after spending more than $40 for Version 6 in November 2003, I don't wish to spend another $40 to get performance that I should have received with version 6.0.

 

I did receive an improvement. That's why I switched to a free defrag. As you are well aware, there are many companies who provide free version upgrades.
By the way, I tried PerfectDisk Version 7.0 and found no substantial improvement.

 

I bought PerfectDisk 7 when it came out but hardly ever used it - went back to Diskeeper. Yesterday I decided to give PerfectDisk8 a trial and found a big speed
improvement over 8 and more importantly over Diskeeper 10. Anyway I ended up buying a 5 License upgrade

 

Another update to UltimateDefrag;

Version 1.35 Released
28 December 2006
Updates and fixes in this release

NEW FEATURES

* Converted custom user interface to complete classic Windows user interface.
UltimateDefrag will adopt the Windows theme that is in use
* Changed Maximum Resource Usage Selector to a spinner that enables 1% increments
* Moved Scheduler to Tools menu
* Changed start and stop push-buttons to give dual functionality to the one push-button

 

its great to hear itll now use the Windows theme.

 

I wished I had read this thread before since I recently purchased another product (O&O Defrag - I like their 3D screen defrag).

I can't agree with the non partitioning recommendation, since it's so important for drive imaging, but I am very interested in the directory sorting. This feature can be reproduced with PD and O&O, but only when activating the "slow" modes (smart placement and modified placement respectively). I have always found, or rather believed, that directory sorting does bring some visible improvement.

For DiskTrix people : do you consider proposing trade-up offers ? (One can always dream a little...).

Thanks !