defragmenter what is the best?

Discussion in 'backup, imaging & disk mgmt' started by cooperb21, May 20, 2015.

  1. Rolo42

    Rolo42 Registered Member

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

    http://sharewareonsale.com/shop right now
     
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  2. Overclocker

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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.
     
  3. Snoop3

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

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  5. Snoop3

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    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.
     
  6. Rolo42

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

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    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
     
  8. monkeylove

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    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.
     
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