Best defragger

TheVoice · 6 Jul 2009 at 18:30

Fire Wizard said:
Surly the whole point of defragging your hard drives is to improve system performance? Until the performance of your system starts to suffer and is noticeable to you, why do you need to worry about defragging at all especially individual folders?

In my experience, doing a proper defrag with a decent app (I use PerfectDisk myself) can help quite noticeably with game load times and stutter.

GrantJ · 6 Jul 2009 at 18:54

Back when I had Vista Home Premium, I used Diskeeper 2008/2009 pro, and they were great.

NathanE · 6 Jul 2009 at 20:03

All you're buying is a GUI.

The underlying process is the same.

Personally I just leave the stock Vista one on... it schedules it to run every night on all disks. Good enough for me. Defragging is an overrated practice anyway.

TheVoice · 6 Jul 2009 at 20:08

NathanE said:
All you're buying is a GUI.

The underlying process is the same.

Not so, otherwise they'd all produce virtually identical results.

Method · 6 Jul 2009 at 20:19

will different defraggers say HDD's will and wont need defragged?

NathanE · 6 Jul 2009 at 20:47

TheVoice said:
Not so, otherwise they'd all produce virtually identical results.

Which they do.

bledd · 8 Jul 2009 at 22:44

if you've been using the standard defrag

install o&o, and see the current mess your drives are in

EdAllonby · 8 Jul 2009 at 22:47

defraggler does the job for me, the standard defragger is generally a nono. But if you're casual, windows will sufficiently (just) do the job.

RumbleBee · 8 Jul 2009 at 23:58

I remember in an old edition of PC Format the technical guru (Louis I think) was asked how often you should defrag your hard drive in the letters pages.

Answer: Between once and never

thought it was funny. Anyway I remember a few recommendations for Defraggler

CaptainCrash · 9 Jul 2009 at 00:19

bledd. said:
if you've been using the standard defrag

install o&o, and see the current mess your drives are in

I'd rather see some benchmarks confirming that O&O, or any other third-party defragger for that matter, gives any significant (or even measurable) improvement in system performance over the built-in tool.