Hard drive defragment likes paying
taxes: it is something that everyone knows they
should do but avoid doing as long as possible. Then, when they ultimately
decide to do, they will seek the cheapest, fastest way to complete it, instead
of looking for other ways that can give better benefits.
Please ignore the similarities before we
send money abroad to the Cayman Islands, and focus entirely on the defrag
utility. The simplest version, as you'll find in Windows, just combine the
parts of files scattered across the drive. While this speeds up a heavy
fragmented drive, it lacks many useful features, such as start defragmentation
the hard disk automatically when the disk reaches fragmentation level as users
defined, or defragmentation in the background in real time when the defrag
occurs. After that is the optimization: the different ways to rearrange the
files on the drive to help retrieve data faster. You can store the most
frequently used files on the external sectors of the disk platters, which are
always read faster. Or you want to layout the files for a large, heavy graphics
or gaming application in a unique position to increase access speed when its
components load with time. There are many possibilities and great results - as
long as your defrag program has the tools you need.
In this forum, we will consider a
defragmenter attracts different types of users. All are free or available as
shareware with a fully functional free trial period.
O & O Defrag 15 Professional Edition
The
screen shows many partitions of Defrag 15
If you find the dripping faucet concept is
attractive, the idea of analysis and defrag multiple partitions on hard drive
will definitely impress you. Assuming it is not true, let’s consider Defrag 15
Pro. It grows on multiple partitions, presents them when conducting the fragmentation
analysis with lightning speed. It also has full functionality. You can create
and program the repetitive defragmentation and plus batch commands to run
before or after a job. Defragging an individual file or folder, excluding the
special files from the process, defragment at startup, stop work and
automatically optimized based on the processor or hard drive load by the user
determined. There are even options to stop Defrag 15 Pro if one of the few
programs you listed starts running.
This defragmenter also provides a
convenient report array, including the charts show the level of fragmentation
of each drive in 4-week period and a disk fragmentation screen on the basis of
each file, which gives the number of fragmented information, the file size,
etc.
You would expect multiple optimization
methods in a full-featured defrag program, and Defrag 15 Pro does not
disappoint in this field, even though it takes time to get used to the name of
the process. Stealth mode is applied to have speed and low resource usage
during defragmentation and file combination, but Space mode maximizes
contiguous free space. 3 complete defragmentation forms include Access (sorted
by last visit), Modified (sorted by last modified date) and Name (sort by
alphabetical order). There are also filing zone, an additional feature arranges
important files on the outermost grooves and the less important files on the
inside track, with the default settings for each file that you can change
easily. Our complaint is, like many other defragmentation, Defrag 15 Pro had
problems in determining the time that a big job will need. For example, we
implemented a work that the program informed it is going to take 117 minutes,
but it ended in only more than 1 hour. The work other greater defragmentations
still shows the inconsistency. (Raxco PerfectDisk 12 has no guesswork at all -
which may be the best solution).
This
screen shows Defrag 15 while working
However, it is relatively small defects in
a very strong product. Defrag 15 Pro is feature-rich, and easy to implement
everything it offers. Though it is not cheap, but 30-day trial version allows
you to explore its potential.
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Important statistics
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Price
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$29
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License
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30-day trial version
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Producer
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O&O
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Website
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www.oo-software.com
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