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Is there a defragger out there that is noticably better than the default windows defragger? I've used like defraggler and I couldn't tell a difference.
So, has anyone benched the "optimizations"? It wouldn't be hard to do. Years ago I benched SpeedDisk on XP. After "optimizing" the files, My boot times slowed, and file system benchmarks showed slower access times :^S
for me it improves the startup from 60s to 35s. And this is a lot.
Startup went from 42s to 30s.
About 30s is reduced (from 2' to 1'30", it includes the time for starting up some services as Gadgets, ...)
I did optimisation, improved to 30+ seconds boot time
Note! DON'T USE OTHER DEFRAGMENTATION PROGRAMS AFTER THE OPTIMIZATION, USE ONLY THE INCLUDED MS TOOL, BECAUSE EVERY TOOL PLACES THE FILES AT A DIFFERENT OFFSET ON YOUR HDD, BECAUSE ALL TOOLS THINK THEY KNOW IT BETTER!
Is there a defragger out there that is noticably better than the default windows defragger? I've used like defraggler and I couldn't tell a difference.
If it is only run occasionally, a 3rd-party defragger shouldn't have any affect at all.Snake oil or not, I wonder if 3rd party defragger's optimization affects win7's prefetch or superfetch.
No. Windows 7 has, mostly from Vista, a wealth of little tweaks in how it handles I/O scheduling and caching. Superfetch helps if you do the same thing every day, and start and close applications all the time.They are what makes win7 snappy, right?
Personally, I have always preferred PerfectDisk to Diskeeper (Windows). But for the majority of users, built-in means are adequate enough. Best investment you could make would be a faster media (i.e. SSD).Is there a defragger out there that is noticably better than the default windows defragger? I've used like defraggler and I couldn't tell a difference.
The only defragger that can offer any real "improvement" is one that allows you to customize the locations of files on the disk. You can place certain programs on the outer tracks of the disk to take advantage of the high read speeds in that location. However, the gains are not very significant, few programs really benefit from it, and why on earth would you mess with that today when you can buy a SSD?
As far as just defragging in itself, anything other than built in is a waste of time and/or money.
Is there a defragger out there that is noticably better than the default windows defragger? I've used like defraggler and I couldn't tell a difference.