Which defragmentation software do you use?

Ratbag · 3 Dec 2008 at 13:44

Yes, O&O has gone downhill somewhat recently. It's hard to look beyond Perfectdisk for the best commercial defragger and JKdefrag for freeware.

C64 · 15 Dec 2008 at 13:44

Is it normal for defraggler to be stuck on 100% and take hours to defrag a few gb ?

MarcLister · 15 Dec 2008 at 13:48

Nope not really. Not too sure on the 100% but with my quad-core a few gigs would normally take a few mins.

superplay · 15 Dec 2008 at 13:50

+1 for JKDefrag. I use this on both Vista32 & 64.

No problems so far

Burnsy2023 · 15 Dec 2008 at 13:54

I can't say I've defragged my HDD in ages and when I have I've used a sysinternals app to do it.

SteveS · 15 Dec 2008 at 13:57

superplay said:
+1 for JKDefrag. I use this on both Vista32 & 64.

No problems so far

+2

MarcLister · 15 Dec 2008 at 14:02

Burnsy2023 said:
I can't say I've defragged my HDD in ages and when I have I've used a sysinternals app to do it.

contig.exe? On its own or with the PowerDefragmenter GUI or whatever it was called?

JimAroo · 15 Dec 2008 at 14:10

Tried many Defrag programs, I can't see one that's generally better than the other.

I've just settled for JkDefrag 64 bit edition, purely because it's fast, small, free and portable.

Burnsy2023 · 15 Dec 2008 at 14:20

MarcLister said:
contig.exe? On its own or with the PowerDefragmenter GUI or whatever it was called?

Just on the command line. Seemed ok although I'm not sure how you can compare defrag programs.

Greenlizard0 · 15 Dec 2008 at 14:47

JKdegraf + GUI

flamezmack · 15 Dec 2008 at 15:06

perfectdisk

MarcLister · 15 Dec 2008 at 15:08

Burnsy2023 said:
Just on the command line. Seemed ok although I'm not sure how you can compare defrag programs.

Hmm you could compare how pretty the fragmentation graphics are?

Jimbo Mahoney · 15 Dec 2008 at 17:55

Greenlizard0 said:
JKdegraf + GUI

+1

Jfan · 15 Dec 2008 at 20:26

C64 said:
Is it normal for defraggler to be stuck on 100% and take hours to defrag a few gb ?

I had this happen with defraggler, I started a defrag in vista 64, it got to 56% after about an hr, and it was late so decided to go to bed

woke up expecting it to be done, but was still on 56% with lots of disk acess still going on, managed to eventually quit out of program, but now my drive is making clicking noises, so think its on its way out :/

use jkdefrag now, seems better

MarcLister · 16 Dec 2008 at 17:00

Greenlizard0 said:
JKdegraf + GUI

I know there is a x64 of JkDefrag, I used it last night.

Does the JkDefrag GUI work with the x64 JkDefrag? The JkDefrag is a bit automatic and uninterruptable for me. Would love to combine JkDefrag x64 with the GUI.

Mikey · 16 Dec 2008 at 18:12

At my old company we had Diskeeper on about 2000 servers and I thought about gettting for home. Now this has come up I'm thinking about it again.

Those that are running Diskeeper, what version are you running?

gary996 · 16 Dec 2008 at 18:42

Mikey said:
Those that are running Diskeeper, what version are you running?

2008

Mikey · 16 Dec 2008 at 18:48

Looking at their website I'd need Pro for my laptop as it's business version of vista. The thing I remember about diskeeper in our server environment was that you can assign policies etc.

As for my ultimate version I'd assume home would be ok, but i don't want to be missing things

installed the new 2009 trial on my laptop to see how i get on...

brucey034 · 16 Dec 2008 at 22:57

Barlick said:
Decided to split from Diskeeper on my old XP rig and moved initially to Auslogics free Defrag software. Liked the product and have now bought the full package Auslogics Boostspeed 4.2 which runs like a dream on my new Vista 64 setup.

Same here, job done.

Margaret · 16 Dec 2008 at 23:51

What defrag type do you guys use on O&O?