Disk defrag. Truth or lie

[dEnigma]

(01-09-2013, 08:02 PM)daaceking Wrote: they also have features to write properly in the first place, which windows defrag doesn't do.

What does that even mean?

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Personally, I use MyDefrag with an optimized script (MyDefrag can be configured via scripts) that I downloaded some time ago. The creator of the script made some benchmarks to compare different defragmentation programmes and then based on that data, and with some trial and error, devised a script for MyDefrag that beat most of the other solutions (according to his own benchmarks of course).

I've been using it for some years now and am pretty happy with it. There are actually three versions of it, "Optimized Daily", "Optimized Weekly" and "Optimized Monthly". The author recommends "Optimized Monthly" and that's what I use too, since I don't think it makes sense to defrag more often then maybe once a month, unless you did some heavy copying and deleting of files, especially when the HDD is almost full. The downside of the script is that it takes a pretty long time to defrag even a not so big HDD, but since I use it at most once a month that doesn't really annoy me.

Here's the link to the scripts, if anybody is interested:
Zelda

and here's the link to the benchmarks (but remember that those results are pretty old by now):
http://hofmannc.de/defragxp/benchmarks_en.html

Oh yeah, MyDefrag is free of course, as are the optimized scripts.

edit: I voted "other" because I still don't understand what the actual question is