Comments on: Defrag your hard drive!

By: Data Recovery Blog

Data Recovery Blog — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:06:13 +0000

I think this blog would add to this writeup..http://www.bestrecoverysoftware.com/index.php/blog_data/2008/01/14/maintain_your_pc_defrag_your_drive

By: sp

sp — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:15:33 +0000

Nice writeup.I have a new laptop that slowed down a *lot* because of fragmentation, when i opened up my snaps thumbnails would either not open or take over ages. Sometimes the system would hang as well. No system is free from this disease. It kills the performance that a high end computer is capable of.

By: trump

trump — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:04:04 +0000

Great write up jk!
I use Diskeeper, its scheduled to run in the background, and i think its a great tool that doesnt hog system resources, ideal for scheduling defrags on large drives and over networks. Cool utility for the sysm admin. I run regular disk clean ups and keep the HDD in good shape so that it doesnt affcet system speed or performance, because even with NTFS, badly cluttered drives loaded with junk is not an uncommon scenario nowadays.

By: jk

jk — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 21:10:21 +0000

I believe the Perfect Disk space consolidation results in moving virtually everything, at least occassionally.

By: Mickey Segal

Mickey Segal — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 20:02:40 +0000

Defragmenting system files sounds like a plus. But my understanding is that it is important to have a way to take completely unfragmented files and move them to a different location on the hard drive every once in a while to get around the file bit decay problem.

By: jk

jk — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 16:32:47 +0000

This info from the help file leads me to believe it does, Mickey:

Completeness of Defragmentation – Each drive contains different types of files – depending on the file system used and what the drive is used for. It may include directories, system files and data files. The expectation when you run a defragmentation utility is that it will defragment all of the files on the drive. PerfectDisk can defragment all file types, including all system files. Less advanced disk defragmenters can not defragment all file types and not all system files, leaving your disk still fragmented and free space scattered all over the place.

Patented File Placement Strategy – PerfectDisk has a patented file placement strategy called SMART Placement™ that is designed to slow down the rate of refragmentation and to speed up future defragmentation passes. PerfectDisk accomplishes this via consolidation of free space and by identifying both rarely modified and frequently modified files, and grouping them together. SMART Placement of files results in your drive maintaining its peak performance longer and reduces the need to frequently run defragmentation passes.

By: Mickey Segal

Mickey Segal — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 16:05:15 +0000

Defragmenting also helps with another more random problem: information on hard disks can go sour through rare individual bits slouching over time towards taking on incorrect values. Moving the files around resets the bits to full strength.

Does PerfectDisk deal directly with this problem by purposely moving files to new places on the hard drive or does it just move fragmented files in some way that is considered better than Microsoft’s defragmentation utility?

By: jk

jk — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 14:30:29 +0000

Kevin, I keep unnecessary files cleaned off routinely too. I like Perfect Disk cause it’s faster and it only requires 5% free desk space, which has sometimes been an issue on smaller devices like the Sony U.

By: jk

jk — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 14:22:50 +0000

Yes, I reinstalled it immediately. :)

By: John Gibson

John Gibson — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 14:00:01 +0000

Does WindowsBlinds get a repreive (and get reinstalled) on the TC1100?