Defrag may only have a benchmark measurable effect vs. real world. Still it's gotta
shave cumulative seconds off access to many small files or large highly fragmented
ones by simple fact that head seeking takes (negligible these days, admitted) time.
I don't run one to the determent of my system performance when I'm actively using it
but I do have it do some optimization a few times a week when the system is idle.
Theoretically it it could have a detrimental effect on the life of the drive with no
benefit to access times if files accessed most frequently fragment faster than you
can defrag them. With SSD & Flash I hear it's bad in general even if it does help
access times given the finite life of those media.
Actually the PC being too busy when it's idle is the reason I disabled all of Vista
search indexing despite finding the cached searches beneficial. Got real tiring quick
wondering why my HDD's seemed so noisy when I was doing nothing with the system.
Suppose like defrag there is a way to limit how often it runs but could not find it
quick enough vs. disabling.
MyDefrag still takes the cake IMHO for lightweight and configurable defrag.
On 1/13/2010 9:38 AM, Rick Glazier wrote:
Very little. But yes. Rick Glazier
----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Q. Martin"
<amar...@charter.net>
To: <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!
You guys still run defraggers?
On 1/12/2010 11:46 AM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote:
I really find diskkeeper pretty blah. But their windows home server
add on is nice
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Tim Lider"<timli...@adv-data.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:40:16
To:<hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Subject: Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!
Hello all,
Did you guys forget Diskeeper. Diskeeper is the mother of all
Defraggers.
http://www.diskeeper.com/
It even prevents a majority of fragmentation.
Regards,
Tim Lider
Sr. Data Recovery Specialist
Advanced Data Solutions, LLC
http://www.adv-data.com
-----Original Message-----
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-
boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Bino Gopal
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 8:20 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!
So just got an email for half-price on O&O Defrag 12 Pro; so $14.95
instead
of $30...has anyone who tried out O&O think that it's worth that price
for
v12 vs the free v10?
48 hr deal only for anyone who registered to dl the v10 through the
link Zul
sent (thanks again for that btw!).
BINO
-----Original Message-----
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Naushad,
Zulfiqar
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 4:00 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!
The larger companies have more budget for development and hence you can
expect better algorithims for defragging.
That may not always be the case but is pretty much the norm.
Right now I am using Raxco Perfectdisk, but will try O&O tonight.
Regards,
-----Original Message-----
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of maccrawj
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 1:33 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!
Thanks Z, I'll give it a spin.
Recently I've been using MyDefrag AKA jkDefrag. Don't know how good a
job it's been
doing but I do like that it's real lightweight on the resources.
Happy New Year all...
On 1/1/2010 12:14 PM, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote:
Read, download and enjoy!
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