What si the best defrag utility ???

Swordfish · 21 Jul 2006 at 14:11

Your thoughts on what is the best defrag utilily to use please.

I have two machiens with over 500 gig of storage and data and would like a way to keep the drives fairly tidy.

VaderDSL · 21 Jul 2006 at 14:11

i like voptxp

Swordfish · 21 Jul 2006 at 14:14

VaderDSL said:
i like voptxp

Cheers,

Will give it a try

It is reasonably fast ??

VaderDSL · 21 Jul 2006 at 14:29

Swordfish said:
Cheers,

Will give it a try

It is reasonably fast ??

It's the fastest I've tried

Peg · 21 Jul 2006 at 14:31

Disk keeper pro

VaderDSL · 21 Jul 2006 at 15:16

Peg said:
Disk keeper pro

hmm I tried that, I absolutey detest programs that stick their own processes in and keep them active.

Greenlizard0 · 21 Jul 2006 at 15:20

Anybody know any good free ones?

VaderDSL · 21 Jul 2006 at 15:27

greenlizard0 said:
Anybody know any good free ones?

Diskeeper Lite - it's basically a slightly more functional (?) defrag than the default XP one

Sharq · 21 Jul 2006 at 17:04

PerfectDisk. Nuff said.

Jimbu · 21 Jul 2006 at 17:29

disk keeper pro

MarcLister · 21 Jul 2006 at 19:50

VaderDSL said:
hmm I tried that, I absolutey detest programs that stick their own processes in and keep them active.

Yeah, I'd heard good things about Diskeeper so I downloaded the demo, thought it was pretty good. Made a mental note to buy the full version until I realised the diskeeper.exe service.

Hmm, not what I want from a defragger. Will give VoptXP a try.

P_A_N_I_C · 21 Jul 2006 at 20:01

PerfectDisk :cool:

killer_uk · 21 Jul 2006 at 22:29

Another vote for Perfectdisk here

GodMac · 21 Jul 2006 at 22:59

I use 0&0 Defrag, it works in the background of my programs, sorts all my defrag issues in realtime (ish) but never dispays an accurate picture of my disc, not like the old PC Tools app did.

killer_uk · 21 Jul 2006 at 23:06

GodMac said:
I use 0&0 Defrag, it works in the background of my programs, sorts all my defrag issues in realtime (ish) but never dispays an accurate picture of my disc, not like the old PC Tools app did.

I never knew which type of defrag option was best for me when using that program - so I was always left thinking if I chose the right one.

GodMac · 21 Jul 2006 at 23:31

I know what you mean. Its one of those programs that you install and leave to get on with it. Every now and then I get it to do a scan disc and what it shows me I am not to sure about, graphically that is. The old PCtools program used to show me complete blocks and I was pretty sure everything worksed faster. Now i'm not so sure. I need a new program and I've just downloaded Perfect Disc to give that a try.

Snow-Munki · 21 Jul 2006 at 23:43

used to use voptxp

have been using perfect disk and seems to be just as good.

malfunkshun · 22 Jul 2006 at 21:06

I like PerfectDisk 7, I have used DK lite, VoptXP, which is fast and has lots of features.
But I find the performance file positioning in PD7 to be pretty effective.

Steedie · 22 Jul 2006 at 21:17

PerfectDisk, best by far

ants83 · 23 Jul 2006 at 00:32

disk keeper does the job for me, quick too!