What Defrag software do you recommend?

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 by ToeJo | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

I need to invest in a defrag utlilty for my system. I use XP on 2 machines. One of them has nearly 1.5t. of hard drive space for video editing. I'm wondering what a good defrag utility would be for large files (In excess of 2gb) that could clean up some of my stuff.
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ToeJo
Reply #1 Wednesday, May 24, 2006 1:02 PM
Just saw this... http://www.avid.com/exchange/forums/post/90831.aspx
so no defraging my media drives.

liquidguru
Reply #2 Wednesday, May 24, 2006 1:05 PM
i use perfectdisk 7.0....it works fast and intelligently...it's main rivals are diskeeper and o&o...all are very good...if you want to read a long in-depth discussion have a look at the following link :

Link

i know it starts in 2004, but the post continues right upto this month, talking about all the latest versions

ToeJo
Reply #3 Wednesday, May 24, 2006 2:41 PM
Thanks for the insight.

Incoherent
Reply #4 Wednesday, May 24, 2006 5:31 PM
Sorry Toe for adding something partially unrelated to your thread but you had me curious and so I decided to check the google ad links here on this page since because you asked about defrag tools it displayed links toward them:


Winternals Defrag Manager
New 4.0 World Class Defrag Solution Windows NT and up including 64-bit
www.DefragMgr.com

Registry Cleaner Download
Free Scan, increase PC performance & fix Registry Errors, 5 Star Rated
www.pctools.com

Disk Defrag
Protect Your PC From Viruses, Spyware & Other Problems—Free Trial
WindowsLiveOneCare.com

Ads by Goooooogle

However, when I clicked the middle one, PCTools one, I got a warning on my comp saying it is a mismatch domain and it could possibly be someone trying to intercept. Anyone else getting this?

Phoon
Reply #5 Wednesday, May 24, 2006 5:49 PM
Diskeeper for me.

Jafo
Reply #6 Wednesday, May 24, 2006 6:25 PM
If you'd like a no-frills command-prompt batch-file type one that works....look up 'DIRMS' ....

Kevin_C
Reply #7 Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:13 AM
Diskeeper here also. I've tried out others but had problems with scheduling automated defragmentation and with DK it just works..

Koasati
Reply #8 Thursday, May 25, 2006 1:46 PM
I use mst Defrag http://www.mstsoftware.com/

Phoon
Reply #9 Thursday, May 25, 2006 4:26 PM
Plus with Diskeeper you can defrag all of your drives at the same time..

Adamness
Reply #10 Thursday, May 25, 2006 4:36 PM
Yep, I use Diskeeper. Works well for me.

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