diskkeeper defrag

[rikit]

I have been doing some video editing more frequently and noticed more fragmentation also of the my video drive. I did defrag and like 2 days later it looks better, but still looks as though it needs defraged again or at least windows says so. Not as bad though. I read that video editing can do that. also I did a search on this subject in this forum. My questions:

Would diskeeper be a benefit for me to use?I read that the windows version I use is junk.

How often would I want to run diskeeper on my video editing machine?

One last thing that I read was to put my machine into safe mode when running the defragger, will safe mode be necessary when running diskeeper?

[ntscuser]

A hard drive becomes more and more defragmented as it fills up. If at all possible I delete older files so that mine is never more than half full.

There are two kinds of defragmenter, those that defrsg individual files and those that pack all files towards the front of the drive where access is fastest. The latter needs using less frequently, say once a month rather than once a week. Once a drive is more than 75% full it becomes very difficult to defrag using any kind of program.

Installing extra RAM is the best way to stop swap files ("virtual memory") from becoming defragmented.

[rikit]

My drive is a 80gb and I have used maybe 20gb so far. I have been capturing video, editing with premiere, saving uncompressed avi. some of the video is an 1hour long. after I edit the raw footage I delete it so it does not take up space. the edited video is about 500mg or less. I have been preparing mv2 to author . So basically I have been compiling enough mv2's to fill a dvd.

[ntscuser]

With the amount of space you have available defragmentation should not be a problem. Personally I wouldn't bother.

[jimmalenko]

I make a habit of defragging periodically (say twice or three times a month) just to keep everything quick and neat. I use a batch file I made to run windows defrag and then to shut the computer down automatically when done, so I set it going when I go to bed and job's right in the morning. It also writes the log to a txt file so I can check the next day if there were any issues or whatever.

defrag.exe c: -f -v >> C:\logs\defrag_c.txt
cd\windows
shutdown.exe -s -f -t 0

Simple as that

[ChrissyBoy]

I use PerfectDisk & defrag everynight. DiskKeeper was abandoned by me (& all my collegues and clients) when it mashed my 250GB HD. It was a limitation of the program at the time. Anyway PerfectDisk is about a 10th of the price...