Microsoft's Defragmentation

What do you see in Windows Defragmenter?

  • Slight Speed increase

    Votes: 9 90.0%

  • Storage increase

    Votes: 1 10.0%
  • Total voters
    10
Yeah I would say a speed increase when I'm searching for something. The only time I remember to defrag is when I go to look for a song and it takes more than 10 minutes to find it, or when I turn on the PC and it takes next to forever to finish loading.

The one thing that I dont understand is why you need atleast 15% of spce to defrag, I never really understood that.
 
Actually, whenever I defrag, I don't see a slight speed increase. I see a huge speed increase, especially when loading programs. Example: before a defrag, Netscape will take up to 45 seconds to load. After a defrag, just 5 seconds. Overall disk access improves markedly whenever I defrag, so I do it at least 3 or 4 times a week.
Tom
 
defragmenting is uber important if you're a p2p'er

the windows defrag program is slow, tho

it's worth it to use a 3rd party app
 
INTELCRAZY said:
Why do you use defragmenter? I think most will say Speed increase, why did Microsoft make it seem targeted for storage?


thx
Click to expand...

Well a speed increase comes along with it but defraging is to rearrange your files. After you use windows for awhile it has a bad habit of not putting your files back in order. Its kinda like putting a deck of cards back in order after you dropped them in the floor
 
There's DiskKeeper as well, but be careful: I installed and ran it and things loaded up a whole lot faster. The downside was whenever I right-clicked on any file or folder to look at size, properties, file type, etc. it took at least 30 seconds of hard drive thrashing for anything to show up!
Tom
 
I use Diskeeper. Great tool IMO. It arrenges files for "best performance".
You can set it to run constantly and it will keep your files in order all the time.
You can set defrag on bootup etc.
I didn't notice anything like OvenMaster at all.
 
the reason the built in windows defrag doesn't work that well is because it only does a single pass.

to completely fix fragmentation, it requires several passes, especially if your disk is low on free space to begin with.

and defragmentation doesn't necessarily put your FILES into any particular order, but what it does is make sure the files in and of themselves are writtent to the disk in a linear fashion

diskeeper, for example, doesn't put much stress on arranging the files in any particular order, or consolidating freespace, and is more tuned for getting the defrag done FASTER, with fewer passes, and KEEPING all files/folder defragged AS they become scattered, so 'defragmentation' never has to cross your mind again, as diskeeper just works in the background.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top