Best 3rd party defragger for Win7

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Every now and again I just defrag it to keep my RAID set up happy.

I used R-Studio for XP but havn't tried it for Win7. Does anyone here have any suggestion which is the better one to go for?
 
Windows 7 defrag seems to be quite good mate, until folks are doing reviews comparing a new product to the basic built in one I'd be tempted to stick with it.
 
I just use Windows 7's built in defragger on a weekly auto schedule....it works fine and give no less performance than the results from ausolgics, perfect disk, defraggler, jkdefrag which I have used up until now.

gurusan said:
Who defrags these days? :confused:
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People who own non SSD drives and have some sense.
 
mrk said:
I just use Windows 7's built in defragger on a weekly auto schedule....it works fine and give no less performance than the results from ausolgics, perfect disk, defraggler, jkdefrag which I have used up until now.



People who own non SSD drives and have some sense.
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Weekly is overkill unless you are running a business server mate!
 
i just defrag after big installs/uninstalls. and steam updates. when some of the files are 1gb+ in size, it's not a good idea to have them fragmented all over your disk.
 
I havent run an explicit defrag for about 6 months and all my drives are 0% fragmented.

I see no reason to use a 3rd party product.
 
I only defrag after a massive installation - FSX and its addons for example go into the gigabytes and a lot of fragments appear. Having said that I notice no difference in performance, boot-time etc. I personally wont bother with defragging anymore TBH.

I have computer-clueless mates who have had PCs for years and dont even know such a thing exists. Yet their machines chug happily along.

Unless you have lab-grade software that can detect the millisecond difference in boot time or performance that a defrag makes I dont see the point in the real-world. Im not disputing that fragmentation exists and does cause the R/W head to scuttle all over the disk but to the everyday Joe - does it make a diff? Doubt it.

Having said all that my fav 3rd party tool is the freeware Defraggler - made by the good folks who gave us the excellent CCleaner. Lets you pick just a folder to defrag as well instead of the whole drive.

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http://www.piriform.com/defraggler
 
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If he has Windows 7 he can just schedule the defrag and he never has to worry about it ever again. Absolutely no need for 3rd party solutions unless he is after something very, very specific. No idea what that could be though.
 
If he has Windows 7 he can just schedule the defrag and he never has to worry about it ever again. Absolutely no need for 3rd party solutions unless he is after something very, very specific. No idea what that could be though.
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Agreed, actually W7 has some decent built-in utilities. The firewall, defragger & backup systems do their job. Of course they dont have the hi-tech options of some 3rd party stuff but better than nothing.
 
Kami said:
Weekly is overkill unless you are running a business server mate!
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I wouldn't say so, I think my vista install is set to weekly. Just means it will be a 5 minute job every week instead of 20 or so every month.:)
 
Most of the 3rd party defraggers use the windows defrag api anyway, so absolutely no point in them unless you need the more advanced features of them
 
Kami said:
Weekly is overkill unless you are running a business server mate!
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Not at all if you're a power user.

At the end of each week my C drive is between 5 and 14% fragmented, to be expected though I shift around lots of data via my home LAN on a weekly basis, the joys of wireless-n and gigabit. I also do weekly backups so fragmentation occurs by the end of each week.

In fact at midnight it's this week's run and a quick analysis shows 4% fragmentation of C:\ :p
 
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LizardKing said:
Most of the 3rd party defraggers use the windows defrag api anyway, so absolutely no point in them unless you need the more advanced features of them
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Why would you think that makes a difference? The API allows them to function and use filesystem commands, really has little to do with what they actually achieve. Third party ones are considerably more intelligent and effective.
 
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