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Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit 2 people found this reply helpful. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. I am not in the habit of running Windows Disk Defragmenter very often, but over the last few weeks I have been going through the process of importing my very large cd collection on to iTunes.
I ran WDD but after 18 hours it had still not finished! I therefore decided to cancel the defrag, and after checking the capacity of my "C" drive, I found to my amazement that I now had I then downloaded the free Auslogics DiskDefrag and ran that.
It completed in a few minutes and showed that the Windows Defrag had done most of the work but for some reason had failed to finish. And thank you Rodster for your contributions, even though censored. I would add however that you seem to be luckier with Windows' native Defrag than I have been. I haven't been able to get it to work any better than Defraggler, other than not causing new fragmentation.
Which I suppose does make it better in that respect. But isn't the whole purpose of third-party alternatives to provide something better than Windows? Sorry, Piriform, but a nicer interface isn't enough if the technology behind that interface is no good. Thank you. Don't get me wrong. I love Defraggler as many people here but I think that it should be recoded from ground up. Also, I have always wondered why CC gets so many updates and Defraggler gets so few.
Another issue is that I get no feeling of novelty using Defraggler. You may not notice any great difference by running a one or two year old version.
It's true, you cannot reinvent the wheel, but I think a little more polish is always welcome. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy! Already have an account?
Sign in here. By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use. If you mean where the socalled free blocks are positioned - I think most people would call that optimizing. This is a discussion topic amongst the defragmentation specialists - what is the best strategy for the harddisk to optimize the placement of files and the durability of the free space in the harddisk? This depends on what you want to try to achieve - many for example thinks that a few free blocks between the different programs is the best way to go.
This is probably true in some setups, - while it in others do not yield the desired results. The whole discussion is also influenzed by the defrag windows that usually shows you about small blocks that is thought to depict your harddisk.
Differences between the strategy of defragment between the the different defragmentation programs should be conducted between the experts I think. SmartDefrag does use optimization if that setting is chosen - what defraggler does or what it calls it I do not know.
Defrag should not have decreased your free space, but if it found and marked bad sectors that would reduce your free space. Did you run disk cleanup first? That finds and displays various files and folders that you may no longer need, like recycle, temporary, temporary internet files, etc.
Not consolidating free space does not prevent this as this would require too many variables to line up:. Typically, none of these three conditions will be met. Additionally, this logic is more concerned about write performance when read performance is more relevant. Consolidating files towards the beginning of the drive rather than leaving them all over the place will improve read performance in some cases, dramatically. Having said all of that and having only started using SD yesterday Diskeeper trial ran out and, sorry Condusiv, but Diskeeper is far too expensive to install on five machines in the home , I cannot say whether SD can be improved with respect to consolidating files as I've not enough time to make a mess of file placement yet.
I can say that SD consolidates the green blocks frequently used files. The below quote is only part of the concept of IObit's Smart Defrag and should not be taken as a general comment.
Certainly, the below quote about the algorithm of the Smart Defrag defrag engine should be taken into consideration. Intelligently organizes drive data for maximum program performance and long-lasting data contiguity. Smart Defrag is an advanced and patent-suspended technology of IObit. Files are organized by their creation and modified dates. The theory is that files that have not changed recently are less likely to change in the future.
In some specific instances with the NTFS file system, modest free-space fragmentation actually enhances performance. Initiating defrag of free space will will cause every possible file to be re-located to give the largest possible amount of contiguous free space that can be made available. For average home or office purposes, this normally will not achieve a worthwhile benefit. But if you want to prepare for something like recording a large video file, and the drive is getting full, then defragging the free space first could mean the difference between a clean recording and a fragmented file that glitches.
Boredom Software. Posted 16 April - AM Heh heh at the comments on that link! Some of them due to not making the distinction between defragmentation and compaction Reply to quoted posts Clear. Site Changelog.
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