New UltimateDefrag5 - Beta Testers Wanted

I know that in the past these forums have shown a lot of interest in our UltimateDefrag product. While things might have been quiet recently we have been actively working on the latest version 5.

We've just commenced beta testing and I want to invite anyone from these forums who would be interesting in beta testing to do so. We are looking for around 500 testers.

You can sign up to receive a beta version here. (The form will be disabled when we reach 500)

https://app.getresponse.com/site2/disktrixbeta?u=BuMT&webforms_id=8076303

You can get more information on version 5 here:

http://www.disktrix.com/ultimatedefragversion5.php

Thanks ahead of time for those who will participate in the testing.

Thanks
Rob F.
DiskTrix Inc.

 

hi Rob I am interested in becomming a beta tester , so of you can sign me up....I would appreciate that!

 

Hi Rob! Your info page states release is due on November 1st. With 500 BETA testers beginning their beat-up of your product on 23October... methinks this might just be a bit of an inadequate time fame for a thorough BETA testing phase, especially with this group

I have signed up and will do what I can in such a short period of time. I assume you want a good bit of W10 testing as you move forward, yes?

 

From the FWIW department... the last time I used your most recent product version, it was on a slightly unusual UEFI-MBR factory platform (HP P2 model). Although it appeared to work as described on the main System partition (W8.1.1), when the System was BOOTed, the BOOT path was toast (I have no idea how that happened). Had to rebuild the BOOT path (I dumped UEFI and re-constructed a Legacy-MBR BOOT path) to get the System to run once again.

You might wanna request some heavy UEFI System testing as you move forward.

 

OK, a quick try with this beast. Used the DEFAULT settings (treat SSDs like SSDs) with CONSOLIDATE mode. First pass hung at 0% trying to optimize folder placement... waited a long time, no movement.

Second pass... hung at 70% showing I/O in progress FROM and TO the exact same cluster. This went on for about 10-mi so I killed the attempt.

Will report to the BETA portal, won't try my SSD anymore but will try my HDDs.

Looks a li'l funny at this point.

 

BETA Devs suggested re-running my 1st test above, giving it time to complete its tasks. I did, from the exact same point in time (thanks to imaging) and the exact same hang occurred. I allowed it to continue this time, leading to an eventual crash of the application. During the hang, UD5 was processing a single 6.5mB FileSystem tracking file belonging to a 3rd party FileSystem driver.

Following UD5's crash, restarted the pass, this time leading to a successful completion.

We're still working on it.

 

1 month of beta testing for this type of software isn't enough time.

 

Information link not found.

 

The entire site is GONE... maybe the BETA didn't go well

 

after several days there is still no website available

 

Beta-test the website 1st.

 

UltimateDefrag Version 5 Beta 2

Beta 2 is now available for download.

New Features

1. Added lapsed time for analysis in the status bar.

2. Modified the maximum defragmentation time to be 5 hours (it was 100 hours)

3. Removed default "Move directories close to MFT"

4. More log messages

5. Redesigned NTFS volume to not read the boot sector

6. Defragmentation time estimate includes pending fragments

7. New tool to lock files

8. Fix the infinite loop while defragmenting

9. Default defragmentation method for SSDs was set to fragmented files only.

Fixes

1. Fixed bug where some external devices would not be recognized.

Thanks to Doug Horton, DG Holloway and Ted Holloway for reporting and helping to solve this.

2. Fixed bug in the boot module defragmenter.

Thanks to Pete Stecker for reporting and helping to solve this.

3. Fixed bug where defragmentation will take forever in specific disk layout conditions.

Thanks to Froggie for identifying the problem and for his significant assistance in solving it.

4. Barry Eyt, Darryl Wightman and Denny Bronson reported visualization problems which we have to address yet.

Jo Velash and Dr. Daniel Porecki also sent their impressions. Thanks to all for their assistance.

 

Why was "moved directories close to MFT" removed? That's a great feature!
And time is limited to 5 hours max? There are large disks that could take that long or longer.

 

That just may be for the BETA...

 

Received beta license key & download link, will test out over the weekend. Thanks!

 

got beta email, am testing it. never recieved activation code tho.

 

I did... but the credentials they sent me would not register.

 

got an email about the latest beta with a d/l link. still no activation code tho.

 

UltimateDefrag Version 5 Beta 3
Beta 3 is now available for download.

1. Improved SSD identification in the GUI and detection algorithm

Thanks to Jean-François Dreyfuss for suggesting this and other useful discussion.

2. Fixed premature defragmentation exit in specific disk layouts

Thanks to DG Holloway for reporting and helping to solve this.

3. If UltimateDefrag4 is installed the configuration is preserved.

Thanks to Darryl Wightman for reporting issues that led to this option.

Thanks to all for their assistance.

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