I rarely even defrag anymore, the benefits on a storage drive are minimal at best, even if you have a lot of games on it. If a mechanical is still your system drive, it's a different story of course.
Raxco PerfectDisk W7 x64 Free edition http://www.raxco.com/home/pdfree.aspx http://ftp.raxco.com/pub/download/PDFree/x64/setup.exe
You got that right Diskeeper 2012 edition looks like a fisher price toy, Diskeeper 2011 Pro Premier with HyperFast (15.0.968.0) is the one i use it works good i just set it up let it run all the time. that's that
PerfectDisk - set it and forget it, auto defrags everything, including on-the-fly prevention of fragmentation.
what would be good for defragging 700+gb of steam and other games? windows defragger take hours to do it and then find out it didnt do a good job and theres still fragmented files
For a free solution, try Auslogics or Wise Care 365. There's also UltraDefrag, which can be set to be more thorough than the two above, but it's also rather slow. For a paid solution, again, nothing beats Raxco PerfectDisk, not even O&O's. It can prevent defragmentation right from when the files are being copied to the disk on a program installation.
Last revision of UltraDefrag (6.0.0) works both fast and efficient here. The main "trick" is run the app in secure mode, this actually did difference on my system. Even better, run it before boot windows. Question here, Diskeeper actually does everything it promise? I mean, I read about this app sometime ago, but sounded too good to be true for me and totally forgot to check some trusted review. Maybe an alternative for it?
Could you please define " Secure mode? " & Diskeeper has received a 5 Star review at Softpedia: http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Diskeeper-Professional-Edition-Review-33845.shtml & PerfectDisk has also received a 5 Star review at Softpedia: http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/PerfectDisk-Professional-Review-137182.shtml & For comparison, O&O Defrag received a 4 Star review at Softpedia: http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/O-O-Defrag-Professional-Review-118689.shtml
Sorry, I just picked the "wrong" word, I meant safe mode. Thanks for the links, I will read them soon as I can.
Any defragger that works in Safe Mode and supports on-boot defragging will work just as fast; it's the file placement that counts. Anyway, I can vouch for PerfectDisk. I actually switched from Diskeeper to PerfectDisk quite some time ago. Diskeeper was the 'go-to' brand years ago, but not so much these days.
I use Piriform, but will give Perfect Disk a go sometime. Very interested in seeing what this 'avoid fragmentation when a file is being copied' can do.
But.... what's wrong with Window's built-in defragmenter? I never have to worry about it, since it runs on a schedule.
Nothing wrong, but some people like the extra seconds they could shave from using a defragmenter that can put the most used files on the "front", or defrag the MFT, directories, registry, and/or page file. Or just to defrag certain directories, or excluding files since multimedia files seldom matter being fragmented so they can be skipped to reduce defrag time. Windows' built-in defragger just, well, defrag the files. It doesn't care whether you end up having system files that's usually loaded at start-up being put on both "ends" of the disk, so even if you have the disk defragged nicely, the disk's read head would still have to jump all over the platter because the files that Windows needs to load at start-up are not being placed close to each other. Goes the same with other applications, especially big-sized software or games with many resource files; having the files being placed close to one another helps shortening the load time. 'File placement optimization' is the key term for the most part in using third-party defragger.
