disk defragment software

[j.o.s.h.1408]

hi does anyone know any good disk defragment software that are better than the standard win xp one?

[Fabula]

O&O defrag has worked well for me.

[kalniel]

They're all good. I keep running trials of the main three (O&O, PerfectDisk and Diskkeeper) and it's hard to choose between them.

O&O was pretty fast most of the time. The complete/ methods are interesting, though there wasn't actually the option that I wanted. Downsides were not particularly great defragmentation of large files.

Diskkeeper was also pretty fast, and had a fairly good disk-reordering tool I think. Also failed to defragment largest files well.

PerfectDisk was the slowest of the lot, especially for FAT32, but the gain was the best defragmentation. The disk re-ordering only has one mode which is suited for fragmentation performance, not drive speed, but it at least sticks the system files at the start of the disk.

[Metier9]

I tried a copy of diskeeper i found a nice little product

[this_is_gav]

PerfectDisk for me, as I can easily customise the installer MSI to only start the services when needed.

Seems the best free one is JkDefrag, and it also works with Vista.

An over-rated part of system optimisation in my opinion, but there you go.

[ikonia]

whats wrong with the one built into the OS ?

[vinnyT]

IObit SmartDefrag it's free and quick

http://www.iobit.com/SmartDefrag/index.html

[trect]

There's a review of the latest Diskeeper here, if you want to read up more on it:

http://www.itreviews.co.uk/software/s432.htm

[Lourdes]

PerfectDisk 8. I tried the latest Diskeeper and O&O recently but PerfectDisk still does the best job.

[aidanjt]

whats wrong with the one built into the OS ?

It's a crippled diskeeper, it only does the bear minimum of defragmention.

[kalniel]

*nods* It's ok if you run it about 10 times in a row, but it's not very good.

[ikonia]

thank you for the explination

[dangel]

I've always been a perfectdisk man but recently i've been very impressed by two other products - Diskeeper (the InvisiTasking thing is rather clever and seems to work) and the other (which you probably won't of heard of) is Disktrix UltimateDefrag (http://www.disktrix.com/ultimatedefr...matedefrag.htm) which is nice both functionally and visually

[j.o.s.h.1408]

im using perfectdisk and all i can is that it so cool. it does the job very well indeed thanks for all your suggestions!

[fuddam]

diskeeper be good for moi long time

[Agent]

The major issue with the inbuilt one is that it doesnt touch the pagefile
O&O is much faster, and has different methods depending on what you use your drive for.
Its advanced features (like set and forget) are a godsend for family computers.