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Originally posted by Viktoria
Fair Comment, Zxian Have you ever tried O&0, or something like that. I did a long time ago, and didn't like it at all.
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Yes, I have tried O&O Defrag, but like you, I found it to be horrible at keeping the file system unfragmented. It would only take a few hours for things to go back to being messy and cluttered on the drive.
Another point that I found with Diskeeper is that it didn't take long for the file system to become fragmented again. It's the main reason why I don't use it. With PerfectDisk, I only run the defragger once a week (or after I've installed a big program). Since it organizes the files in order (their "SmartPlacement" technology), it reduces the risk of the files from becoming fragmented in the first place.
I do think that on some systems you will see the difference between various defraggers more than on others. This is probably more true for newer computers with high speed processors and (relatively) slower hard drives. The bottle neck in speed is how fast the computer can pull data off the disk. In Trip's case, with the 10K Raptors, I don't think that you'd be able to measure the 10ms faster startup time.
However, with my laptop with a standard fare 4200rpm drive, the difference is more apparent.
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Originally posted by Gene K
Paying a bunch of money to obtain a specific one versus the one provided by Windows is a personal choice.
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I partially agree with you here on this note. However, computers are just like any other machine. They need to be maintained, and the built in defragger just doesn't cut it in some cases. I had a partition that according to the Windows defragger was 22% fragmented (!!!). I tried running it time after time, both after a normal startup and after booting in safe mode, and it wouldn't drop below 22%. After running the trial version of PerfectDisk, it went down to 0% after the first pass. For the next week and a half, it didn't go above 1%.
Of course, if you can't afford to pay for a third party defragger (it's not
that much money), then the built in one will do better than none at all.