Best De-frag software

[.Wilier.]

The one in XP pro seems a bit poo, anyone know of anything better?

 

[MYstIC G]

O&O Defrag has always seemed fairly nifty to me http://www.oo-software.com/

 

[Dr_Weasel]

"Diskeeper Pro" is pretty sweet. Its not a freebie though.

 

[smurkin]

I like O&O...its nice

 

[Jupitus]

"Diskeeper Pro" is pretty sweet. Its not a freebie though.

They do do a shareware version with fewer features which works fine... not really placed to comment on levels of efficiency, but it does seem to do ok to my untrained eye

 

[jaba]

Yeah I use diskkeeper lite which does a lovely job of it, only annoying thing is it pops up a window occasionally which informs you of how fragmented your harddrive is, irrelevant of whether you want it to or not

 

[Ardrias]

I kinda like the Norton one.

 

[Jupitus]

Thought I'd give this one a quick bump.

Having used diskkeeper lite for quite a while I tried out O&O the other day. Despite having regularly de-fragged with diskkeeper I still got occasional disk-chugging and had put it down to a slow disk or big nasty game files. After defragging with O&O, however, I have noticed a significant improvement in system speed. I think, basically, diskkeeper reorganises fragmented files only whereas O&O does a much more thorough file re-shuffle to minimise seek times and so on.

So, after trying both, I think I am gonna buy a pro copy of O&O for 45 bucks.

 

[smurkin]

so what o&o setting did you use...by access ??

 

[Escape]

Complete /name - seems to be the one for regular PCs
/access and /modified are geared towards servers.

I've tried /name on my win2k partition and my games one.
Playing 2x accounts of DAoC seems smoother, but that might be down to CleverCache which I'm trying aswell. Although I haven't had time to make proper tests yet.

Both of my disks are starting to crunch, so I'm getting ready for a low-level format. Is it worth formatting NTFS partitions to 4096bytes(allocation), is there much performance increase Vs 512bytes?

 

[Ch3tan]

Tried o&o, its great, didnt realsie my disk was so fragmented. Nice smooth running system now, I think I will probably bu it after the trail period finishes.

 

[Escape]

I've had some random BSoDs over the past coulpe of days, so I disabled clevercache as it's the most recent thing I've added. Haven't crashed since...

FAO anyone who wants to install it.

 

[Escape]

[edit] The crashes weren't being caused by CleverCache, I have a new culprit! [/edit]