defragmenter what is the best?

Ashampoo WinOptimizer has a boot-time and idle-time defragmenter and is regularly given away for free.

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I use Defraggler and it works great! but if you're running an SSD then you'll have to use Trim functionality, not defragmenting. They work differently.

 

this is true, right? no use for defrag utility on SSD's?

 

No use...

 

that's kind of sad because i'll miss those displays with the little squares changing colors and moving here and there as the defragmenter is doing its job.

 

Defragmenting an SSD is very useful for giving it a premature death.

 

The infrastructure of an SSD is different enough that you could have a major issue running defrag as it's more acustomed for an traditional HD. Sadly the colors are gone haha

 

There is a study here that shows that there's not much difference in terms of results between the built-in feature and others. However, I did notice the ff. only recently:

For some Win 7 machines, the scheduled defrag did not run, and probably because a third-party program was causing them not to be idle. I had to create a new defrag task that would run without waiting for the system to become idle.

For Win 8.1 and 10, the scheduled defrag task ran correctly.

Also, I read somewhere that every few days the system optimizes itself by putting some files in the faster areas of the HD. Thus, a third-party program or even the /b option for the built-in defrag isn't necessary.

Finally, the SSD does solve the problem (and the built-in defrag should recognize it and use only "trim"), but it's still too expensive, so it can only be used for the OS and a few programs. Anything else has to be run from a regular HD.

 

For anyone still interested for MyDefrag Scripts
here's the last Jaspion Script v10, and the older v9 & v8.1
http://www.hofmannc.de/forum/index.php?topic=75.msg130#msg130
http://www.maxxpreston.pl/tech/windows/skrypty-jaspion-dla-mydefrag/
https://web.archive.org/web/20150811002026/http://www.mydefrag.com/forum/index.php?board=14.0

and this one
https://github.com/tumpio/mydscripts