to be honest, i thought you guys would know a bit more about modern defrag. guess it's my job to bring you guys up to speed.
yes, windows vista+7 does auto defrag 1am wednesdays.
modern defraggers, defrag always, when you're not using resources, up to a point where it is completely efficient. they also have features to write properly in the first place, which windows defrag doesn't do. 3rd party defraggers are faster than windows too. or so they claim. they use windows api, which apparently, make defragging super safe. you can never lose data on the basis that you are defragging
ssd's can be defragged and the fact that ssd's work slower when deleting files is why windows 7 has TRIM. this turn's the unused info back to a pre-written state. defraggers also support this. so when you're doing you're own stuff or delete a file, defraggers use windows 7's TRIM to make writing as fast as the first time it wrote.
you can choose free/paid. personally i've used paid diskeeper. i've never heard of free ones.
i just wanted your guys opinion on all this. but seems like i know more than you guys
i'm not going to be using defraggers for a while and see how that impacts the systems...
yes, windows vista+7 does auto defrag 1am wednesdays.
modern defraggers, defrag always, when you're not using resources, up to a point where it is completely efficient. they also have features to write properly in the first place, which windows defrag doesn't do. 3rd party defraggers are faster than windows too. or so they claim. they use windows api, which apparently, make defragging super safe. you can never lose data on the basis that you are defragging
ssd's can be defragged and the fact that ssd's work slower when deleting files is why windows 7 has TRIM. this turn's the unused info back to a pre-written state. defraggers also support this. so when you're doing you're own stuff or delete a file, defraggers use windows 7's TRIM to make writing as fast as the first time it wrote.
you can choose free/paid. personally i've used paid diskeeper. i've never heard of free ones.
i just wanted your guys opinion on all this. but seems like i know more than you guys
i'm not going to be using defraggers for a while and see how that impacts the systems...