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The lost art of defragging

The lost art of defragging

Despite the fact that hard drive defragmentation is of minor benefit on NTFS file systems, sometimes it just feels good to defrag. There are many solutions to do the job, but some are mediocre (Windows) and the best are expensive (Diskeeper). Rather than dinking around with money or mediocrity, Piriform (the makers of CCleaner) has your back with Defraggler.

Defraggler can do its business on specific folders or entire volumes, and it’s more informative than the built-in defragger for Windows. It’s also entirely portable: the <1MB executable can be taken anywhere without an install routine. Functionality aside, the best feature are the little blocks reminiscent of Norton Systemworks for Win9x.

Comments

  1. Leonardo
    Leonardo Thanks. I'm testing it now. I'm one of those strange people who enjoy watching the colored squares rearrange themselves in the graphic representation of the defragmentation process. Cool.
  2. Kwitko
    Kwitko You're not the only one, Leo. It's like a game to me. I try to figure out which piece is going next and where it's going.
  3. Snarkasm
    Snarkasm Get it while the getting's good... defragging once you move to SSD will be a worthless (and possibly damaging) venture.
  4. parlant I'm a Diskeeper user and its definitely top class. I believe defragging has contributed to keeping my drives organized and the PC prompt and consistent in performance inspite of heavy use.
  5. Johnson I've used PerfectDisk for years - also not free but very good. SSD defrag is debatable - some say they need free space defragging to help write performance.
  6. Thrax
    Thrax You definitely don't want to defrag an SSD. This article explains why doing so will greatly shorten the lifespan of the disk: http://icrontic.com/articles/how_ssds_work

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