Jerkey DVD production? Defragment your drive!

[bobbysox]

Yep, after going head to head with jerkey production I've come to realise that if my drive is fragged up then I'll get a bad result for sure.

It's enough that I encode one movie and my drive will need a defrag. I've proved this to myself time and again.

Defrag your drive encode a movie and analise your drive, almost for sure you'll need to defrag.

It takes a while to do this too. My 60gb drive takes a good 30mins to complete. More time wasted.

Can some one suggest an alternative defrag app to the standard Win2k/XP slooow boat?

cheers.

[teegee420]

I use VoptXP. It's the best, not to mention fastest defragger I know of.

[bobbysox]

thanks. just got it i'll give it a go.

[Poppa_Meth]

I'm hesitant to recommend VoptXP myself. I tried it a couple times, version 7.22 and it was the slowest Defragger I've ever uses. the XP defragger does my 120GB HD in about 40 minutes. VoptXP took a minimum of 3 hours for me. maybe I had something setup wrong but I can't figure out what. regardless, when I uninstalled it the stupid thing installed 4 different spywares on my PC. I'll never recommend that.

[tompika]

I believe Norton's SpeedDisk does a better job than the one built in Windows.
The first defragging might be slow but the next will be faster for sure

[openup]

Do you mean the dvds u produce with a fragmented drive are messed up or just that the process is slower?

[gmatov]

I don't believe it, myself. There was an article in Feb 2004 PC World , http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,113743,pg,8,00.asp
that refutes that. I have always listened to Norton when it said I was at 90% point, fired up Disk ute, sat there for a couple hours. 4 HDDs, 400+ gigs.

No discernible speedup.

If you need or want a good program, DL Executive Software's Disk Keeper Lite. Freeware, I think, for home use. They ask you to register, but only to try to coax you into buying Pro, or full, whatever.

Till then,. as an advertiser of theirs who doesn't have them telling you you court disaster by not defragging, I have to believe them more than the anectdotal info posted here.

As an aside, every time I have defragged one of my cap drives, or rip drives, it shows solid blocks of written data, not bits and pieces sprinkled over the magnetic landscape.

Cheers,

George