which is the best defragmenting software

Diskeeper 2008 is best
PerfectDisk 8 is also excellent
i personally use the one wid windows though

o&o defrag tool is the best ever

I only Use Windows Defragmentation tool
no other 3rd party
it works fine for me

O&O Defrag

diskeeper 08

I have used Diskeeper and I find it exremely userful

i used Ashampoo's defragger fr a while, the good thing is it defrags in realtime and prevents fragmentation (just avoided the temptation of writing "prevents fragging" ) in the first place

I use windows defragmenter.....if it is too slow, then try diskeeper....

Windows defragmenter must be enough , as defragmentation must not be done too frequently for better hard disk life. I defragment once in 3 months or more.

^Frequent defragmentation not good for the hard disk? How? Can you give the technical reason?

icehot said:

as defragmentation must not be done too frequently for better hard disk life.

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Not true.

If a drive is fragmented badly, then the drive life may be reduced because the actuator arm has to work needlessly to place/pick up non-contiguous pieces of the file, when writing/reading the file. Defragmentation arranges the file parts contiguously, and therefore reduces drive workload.


If you defrag regularly, as your usage patterns dictate, then successive defrags will take up much less time and fragmentation will be under control.

There is nothing like defragging too frequently since, if the drive is not fragmented, then the defragmenting software will simply have no work to do, and terminate within a few seconds or minutes.