HD Defraggers

[TheWesDude]

I have been using these for years, and usually i end up using the windows one for sheer simplicity.

now they have all these whacked out huge ass ones that have lots of bells and whistles that do zip of what i want.

there was an old norton defrag where it would do it in what i thought was a hugely simplistic fashion.

it would start at the beginning of the disk, move the contents out, and then start moving everything in order and completely defragmented. nowadays these defragmenters spread out the files of a program all over the hard drive and usually not even defragmenting the hard drive. what the hell is the point? what happened to fast and easy defragmenting where it put stuff in order?

does anyone know of a current 64 bit compatible defragmenter that does something like above? why is it so damn hard to find a good defragmenter that like defragments my files and puts them in the order and near the same files. its not going to be effecient if they are not near themselves to help and just do linear reads and instead having to change head position all the time.

its horribly frustrating to be in this hugely advanced time for computers and have this basic function be so destroyed as compared to how it used to be.

 

[Montez]

I've seen this recommended before: http://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k/

I used it a few times before the demo expired and it seemed.... ok. I have no way of gauging how well or poorly a defragmenter works, to be honest, so I can't really give you any opinion on it. Since you're looking for a new one and it gives you a few free uses it's probably worth checking out though.

 

[Tannhauser]

I use O&O Defrag myself, though you might find the price a little high. In my experience, it does a great job. You can read about the specifics on their website, or try the demo for yourself.

 

[Dove]

Norton Systemworks still has it, but it's not 64 or vista compatible.

I don't know if Norton 360 still has it, but it's vista 64 compatible.

 

[mirdza]

I use Auslogic Disk Defrag in combination with Windows' Disk Defragmenter. It's fast, does a good job, and most of all, it's free.

At least, I used it until recently when I bought Seagate Barracuda with perpendicular recording technology. Can anyone tell me does the usual defragmenting have any effect on these disks?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpendicular_recording