Defragment software
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This.
I can't even remeber when i manually ran a disk defrag .. win vista/7/8 optimizes the HDD when not in use though this can be disable ( for SSD ) but it's good for HDDs IMO but when I need to manually defrag HDD I do use 3rd party tools which shows me the overall progress in a nice format and not to mention with more speed and less time.
gameranand
Living to Play
gameranand
Living to Play
Yeah well I defragged them like in a year but didn't knew that it would take that much time. As for System drive, I defrag that regularly. 
ShankJ
Been There, Done That!!
Yeah well I defragged them like in a year but didn't knew that it would take that much time. As for System drive, I defrag that regularly.
Regularly?? As in every second month or every month??
IObit defrag is both feature rich and is having satisfying perfomance.
Yeah well I defragged them like in a year but didn't knew that it would take that much time. As for System drive, I defrag that regularly.
Haven't defrag my 2nd rig since ages, yet to see any performance degradation.
gameranand
Living to Play
Every month or 40 days or so.
Haven't defrag my 2nd rig since ages, yet to see any performance degradation.
Well the performance difference was not that much but its was noticeable.
Can it be checked if a HDD is automatically defragmented, if yes, how?
Every month or 40 days or so.
Well the performance difference was not that much but its was noticeable.
How do you come to know the difference between a drive which is not defragmented and which is?
ShankJ
Been There, Done That!!
Usually the software does it for you..
gameranand
Living to Play
1. Yeah usually software does than and if not necessary then it won't defragment the drive.
2. By running benchmarks before defragmentation and after defragmentation. You can also notice it when doing any work, I mean if the HDD is too fragmented and you defragment it then files will open up faster, copy speeds will increase a bit and overall experience will improve.
1. Yeah usually software does than and if not necessary then it won't defragment the drive.
2. By running benchmarks before defragmentation and after defragmentation. You can also notice it when doing any work, I mean if the HDD is too fragmented and you defragment it then files will open up faster, copy speeds will increase a bit and overall experience will improve.
Thanks. But I know this. But I have been using 2-3 defragmentation softwares earlier (window's own S.ware, iobit and tried some others too). But if I run 2 different defragmentators, they show different analysis.
But anyways, thanks for the help.
sam_738844
Wise Old Owl
Why do you need two different tools to monitor a HDD for defragmentation? Different tools have different algorithms to track and depict frag levels...the fragmentation you see is a logical representation of your HDD total filespace vacant and resident space, its not physical, tools would differ in that too, even disk accessing algorithms and methods are different too...liike C-SCAN, F-SCAN, SVF etc...
.stick to any one of them and use it as your purpose serves. Remember evevery defrag operation will imply a certain wear and tear to your HDD platters, different defraggers will also do these differently, so why put that poor thing in a tug-o-war! There is nothing called an over-defrag and no one faced HDD crash from it as i know of..still..treat him with care
tkin
Back to school!!
Do you guys know defragmenting C drive slows the OS down? Because in C Drive the files are optimized to load in order when OS boots, defragmenting it actually rearranges the files, if you want to speed up your Windows use the method I posted here: *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/software-q/169559-defragment-software-2.html#post1833050
(Its not just a registry clean type tool, this actually invokes the process to optimze the files to load according to order).
This is same as the bootvis tool in Win XP.
(Its not just a registry clean type tool, this actually invokes the process to optimze the files to load according to order).
This is same as the bootvis tool in Win XP.
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