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Auslogic is free and the fastest - give it a try before wasting money!
Auslogic is free and the fastest - give it a try before wasting money!
It is a good app... Especially with it being free.Thanks for the heads up about Auslogics Defrag tool guys.
Just D/L and installed on my system and ran it for the first time, fast indeed.
It took just a few minutes to defrag my C:\ partition and my U:\ partition (where I have installed many programs and have my user folders).
Happy to report that the boot slowdown I reported earlier from using the built-in defragger doesn't apply with Auslogics tool.
After defrag I used the built-in tool to analyze the results and Win 7's defrag reported 0% fragmented.
This is different from my experiences in the past where a 3rd party defrag tool showed the drive completely defragged while the built-in one showed
several percent still fraggmented.
I'm no expert but I read a lot of forums. From what I understand, disc fragmentation isn't quite the issue as it used to be. Modern drives are much better engineered. Also, supposedly Windows 7 defrags discs automatically. I have numerous different drives/partitions other than my main system disc. I have Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. When I run the Windows defrag and analyze my drives all but the main system disc show 0% fragmentation. The system disc usually shows about 2% all the time, which would make sense. I've had this setup for months now and have never ran a manual defrag, and my PC is always shut off when the scheduled defrag is supposed to run. I use this PC for work, so I'm on it 8 hours per day. I render video, remaster audio and create graphic art. Plus I have thousands of email message, documents, pictures, etc. I'm also trying out new software all the time, so there's a lot of installing and uninstalling going on. Still virtually little defragmentation showing up, and my external drives have all mysteriously become defragmented. The background defragmentation process must be working...
[EDIT] To back up my comment about "modern drives" I found the following at Wikipedia. There are other sources out there of course.
"...file systems such as NTFS (and most Unix/Linux filesystems) are designed to decrease the likelihood of fragmentation.[4][5] Improvements in modern hard drives such as RAM cache, faster platter rotation speed, command queuing (SCSI TCQ/SATA NCQ), and greater data density reduce the negative impact of fragmentation on system performance to some degree, though increases in commonly used data quantities offset those benefits. However, modern systems profit enormously from the huge disk capacities currently available, since partially filled disks fragment much less than full disks.[6]"
Hmm.... I agree for the most part although windows default defragger has historically never been much good which is why I always turn it off and use a third party app. As mentioned above, Auslogics Defragger has got to be one of the better ones out especially as it's free....
still a good idea to do a (full) defrag on weekly/monthly basis
Ah, but "Windows 7" is new. Have you experience with Microsoft's latest OS?