UltimateDefrag - is this the best defragger ever?

Long View, you won't notice any difference over other defraggers if you only have a small amount on your drive(s). The other defraggers (certainly PerfectDisk does) will put all the files to the outside of the disk, so if you've only got a few GB of data, most of the files will be on the fastest part of the disk already. UlimateDefrag can't provide any real further benefit.

BUT ... if you have a nearly full disk (or close to it), then UD's strategy of putting the most accessed files to the fastest part of the drive being the outside of the disk (which PerfectDisk does NOT do), will reap great rewards. All the crap will be moved to the inside of the disk (the slowest part) leaving the important, mostly accessed, files on the outside. This will provide a VERY noticeable speed improvement in general day to day application starting and computer use. It does in my case anyway.

By the way, here's a snippet from the PerfectDiskBlog of 14th May:

"PerfectDisk 9 is in the works for release later this year. It will bring you many enhancements and improvements to PerfectDisk 8.​

I bet my socks that the number one hyped new feature for PD 9 will be a different file placement strategy that puts the most heavily accessed files on the outside of the disk. Raxco has no choice now but to step up to the plate given all the hoo-ha surrounding Diskeeper's I-FAAST and UltimateDefrag's placement strategy.

 

That's just theory,I have PD and UD for a long time thus i can compare,for me the use off UD realy makes a difference and Yes on a emaciated drive (10 %).With UD you can place any file everywhere,its up to you to think things out but with the help off the usermanual its laid out perfectly clear.

 

Agreed. UD is an excellent defragger and has made a noticeable difference in my system response over PD.

 

Same for my systems ....but Disktrix really has to enhance UD's lame boot-time defragger!

 

Hi Pete.

Never knew that. Worked with users problems in malware removals too long to have any time to actually search out something as useful as that. Another of our suggestions after cleaning up a PC was always run a standard defrag to at least bring scattered data back to a contigous arrangement again. But like you, it's great to see that concept was not only resurrected again but improved on. Unlike your results sadly, my units benefit with excellent response and crisp performance boosts.

 

Another benefit, and this one is huge, is i notice after doing strategic file placement in UD, theres no need for Defrag so often like before. Things stay pretty much the same and performance doesn't suffer gradual reductions either.

Just another in this tight circle of FULL CONFIDENCE in stability when you combine the likes of a great rollback prog like FD-ISR and a depedable IMAGING app to round out matters.

After these, everything else is just superfluent at best. HIPS + PS + FIREWALL = Total LockDown instead of MeltDown. LoL

 

Hello!

I have just finished trial period of PD and now i am trialing UD. How can i get best out of UD?

Thanks

Kristian

 

Hi,

Read the help files and have a look at post #209

 

Hi Screamer,
Tried to add dll & exe to High Performance but can only find dll no exe.
Badcompany

 

easy,push custom than type .exe than push add,and it appears in the list !

 

hmmm??, I'm ata loss here man. I'd try un-checking the auto in high performance. Closing and re-opening the app.

I don't know if this will work, but it's the only thing I can come up with, Sorry

...screamer

 

Good lookin' out Huupi

 

Thanks Huupi, worked perfectly.
Badcompany

 

Thanks.

 

I have a problem
I am defragmenting my second partition and it will takes ~30-40 hours
it is almost 80% done(10 more hours) , but I have to restart my computer( problems with graphic card)
What will happen
If I press stop or pause will it continue after the restart

 

I'm still using UD with amazing results!! There are so many alternate ways to sort/resort files for OPTIMUM PERFORMANCE and that's exactly what it returns each use.

Glad to see this Super-Defrag stands very tall in this department. Sure makes ALL my drives rapid-responders compared to the sluggishness they used to exhibit.

 

It will restart from the beginning but, according to your UD settings, it should quickly reach the point where you paused the execution.

 

Just thinking out aloud...(I dont want to hijack this thread).

Is manual defrag of any advantage these days? Apart from the 'control' factor that allows you to start the services only when you want to, is there any benefit to defragging manually?

It seems to me that automatic defragmenters are way more convenient and efficient, if they run in the background and defrag the drives as required. Assuming, ofcourse, that they don't steal resources, destabilize the system or cause other trouble.

If I am not wrong (apologies, if I am) automatic defragmenters have dominated the server/enterprise segment; so there must be a good reason for this. And it looks like more of these autodefraggers are making their way to the desktop.

 

I think that there is a trade off between the benefits of automation and drive efficiency. Automation helps as drives are used but has an overhead. In an enterprise environment a company will opt for automation over manual to make life easy and accept the overhead.

Personally I do not like Programs running in the background. My compromise solution has been to use Perfect disk in combination with Returnil or DeepFreeze6. I defrag and then freeze. Each time the machine reboots the disk is as good as I'm going to get. As I use the machine it fragments but to such a small degree as to be of no importance. Getting back on topic I have been unable to find any reason to call UltimateDefrag the best defragger ever. It is good but no better for me than Perfect Disk and certainly using Returnil or Deepfreeze6 in combination produces better practical results.

So for me manual defrag is much better.

 

I tried Ultimate Defrag but I found perfect disk to better than it in my opinion.

 

Same here but J.K. has the best results in my system but not for system files.

 

I agree. And now feel slighted a bit buying Diskeeper since it claims to work best when it's DKservice is always on and that bugs me, not only that but prevents doing some normal tasks with Nero and other apps since diskeeper is always defragging/moving things around in the background. I thought it would be nice to at least use 2 defraggers to confirm honesty. I still get excellent results with UD by DiskTrix and it puts "me" in control, whereas DK uses techno-terms such as Invisi-Tasking etc. to convince it's a technology that can run by itself without much or any user interaction. It's a great selling line and it indeed defrags relatively quiet in the background but it simply doesn't make my disk as snappy as UltimateDefrag does.

 

Hey EASTER what settings do you use when defragging with UD?