Defragmenters -- SpeedDisk, XP internal, what's best

[BJ_M]

strange - most people consider Raxco Perfectdisk pretty well at the bottom of the pile

[xavierdemon]

Well it does exactly what i need it to do and does it pretty well and who are most people?

[BJ_M]

a survey by system administrator magazine going back 5 years on their preferred applications

[LSchafroth]

Do you actually think "Windows based server farms (NTFS)" are defragged on a regular basis??? I hardly think so.....
Maybe the pagefile or the reg... but the disk itself???

makntraks

If they are not being defragged then teh administrator needs fired or shot in the head. I did contract work for a local casino and their main server had a MFT that was fragmetned over 11000 times!! It took 3-5 seconds of thrashing to bring up the START MENU!

It took 9 seperate defrags with Diskkeeper and offline consolidation to clean it up. Took about 8 hours total. It was amazingly fast after that. and they were going to spend thousand for a new server cause they thought this one was dying.

LS

[xavierdemon]

a survey by system administrator magazine going back 5 years on their preferred applications

Isn't System Adminstrator Magazine for Linux/Unix junkies? And did they poll all the System administrators in the world . I stand by my original statement that "in my opinion" Perfectdisk rocks, I can see why people would recommend Diskeeper as they probably don't realise their are any other alternatives, if you search multiple forums on this subject, you'll see that all defragmenters have their own fan base, all with pro's and con's. The only way to find out which is best for you and your system, is try them and make up your own decision.

I suppose it's about time someone actually did do a complete shoot out between all the defragmenters to determain which one does perform the best. However this would need to be subjective aswell, my concern is not how quickly the app defrags but can it reduce fragmentation from occuring in the first place. I used Diskeeper for years, but since I switched to Perfectdisk, I have noticed fragmentation does not occur as much as it did with Diskeeper (probably something to do with Smartplacement - have no idea how this works, but it does) and this means I do not need to defrag as often and the systems performance doesn't de-grade as quickly. That's why I think Perfectdisk is awesome. It's works for me...

[BJ_M]

never said diskeeper was 'best' either ..

here is some good info on defrag in general...

http://www.oo-software.com/en/products/oodefrag/OODefragV6_WhitePaper.pdf

or read any of these other reviews listed here

http://www.oo-software.com/en/reviews/index.html

i think using o&o or diskkeeper or system mechanic or perfect disk -- no mater which one is better than none at all or using the built in one ..

they are all pretty good in their own way and when you get down to it -- it's splitting hairs ..