 lordpufferComfortably NumbPremium
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1 edit | [Need Info] Do You Notice The Difference With Diskeeper 12? I still have Diskeeper 2011, and was wondering who uses Diskeeper 12, and if you notice the difference in speed by using it. Thanks.
EDIT: Running Win 7 64 bit
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| said by lordpuffer:I still have Diskeeper 2011, and was wondering who uses Diskeeper 12, and if you notice the difference in speed by using it. Thanks.
Diskeeper 12 looks prettier  |
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 sivranOpera convertPremium
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Arlington, TX
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I don't notice a difference with any defrag program at all. |
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| I use to use Diskeeper. All it did was thrash the hard drives almost all the time. I then switched to PerfectDisk but it was too slow. Now I just use Auslogics Disk Defrag and Windows Defragger every couple of weeks. Otherwise constantly defragging your hard drive is a waste of time with little gain if any in speed. |
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sivranOpera convertPremium
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kudos:1 | Not too long ago, I used MyDefrag on my friend's laptop. It had not been defragged in three years.
Wanna guess how much difference it made?
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lordpufferComfortably NumbPremium
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Rio Rancho, NM
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Thanks....I'll probably pass on it and use Auslogics' Defrag instead.
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 jabarnutLight Years AwayPremium,MVM
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Galaxy M31
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I use Auslogics as well...only one I ever need. (And even then, I rarely defrag).
I always tell people to try a little experiment. Run Auslogics (which is so fast you wonder if it's even doing much at all), and then use a pay program, or Windows Defrag just to "analyze" the disk.
The results are generally amazing enough that it's really hard to justify using a pay version...at least for me.
I agree with sivran  though. I think defragging is overrated in general. But hey, at least it's fun watching the little colorful bars and boxes moving around when you're bored. 
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 ltsnowPremium
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Valdosta, GA
kudos:1 | said by jabarnut: But hey, at least it's fun watching the little colorful bars and boxes moving around when you're bored.
Made me laugh. I now that I enjoy it. |
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I use defrggler and ultimate defrag. Anything that will let you put rarely used files, installers, and zips at the back of drive is helpful.
If the drive is badly fragmented then you will notice a difference after it is defragged. |
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said by sivran:Not too long ago, I used MyDefrag on my friend's laptop. It had not been defragged in three years.
Wanna guess how much difference it made?
None? |
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The more I read about this and here from tech people like Leo Laporte defragging really is not needed any more like it once was. It can't hurt anything of course but defragging is not as important as it used to be to have a speedy computer.
Of course if anyone can proove this wrong I would love to hear about it
I am a long time user of Diskeeper I always get the upgrade plan but I am really close now to ending that and just not using diskeeper or any other defragging program for that matter. |
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sivranOpera convertPremium
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Arlington, TX
kudos:1 | reply to gate1975mlm
Bingo. You should've seen how terrible the analysis looked before I started. There were practically no unfragmented files on the disk. I thought surely, if defrag could help anything, it'd help this thing.
Many, many hours later, it was the opposite situation. If there was any performance gain at all, it certainly wasn't noticeable. What a waste of time and wear and tear on the hard drive.
said by gate1975mlm:he more I read about this and here from tech people like Leo Laporte defragging really is not needed any more like it once was. It can't hurt anything of course but defragging is not as important as it used to be to have a speedy computer.
Of course if anyone can proove this wrong I would love to hear about it I'm not even sure it was needed "back then" either, but I don't think I'm going to go dig up my 286 (complete with twin 40MB MFM hard drives!) just to see. I do have a WinME machine lying around though.
I've never seen an objective test performed by someone who doesn't have a vested interest in selling defrag tools. Hmmmmm 
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 jmorlanHmm... That's funny.Premium,MVM
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said by gate1975mlm:The more I read about this and here from tech people like Leo Laporte defragging really is not needed any more like it once was. It can't hurt anything of course but defragging is not as important as it used to be to have a speedy computer.
Of course if anyone can proove this wrong I would love to hear about it
I am a long time user of Diskeeper I always get the upgrade plan but I am really close now to ending that and just not using diskeeper or any other defragging program for that matter.
Current versdions of Diskeeper claim to prevent fragmentation by forcing files to be written to disk with adjacent segments. The feature is called "IntelliWrite Fragmentation Prevention." I believe this feature generally works as advertised, but it is not likely to make a noticeable improvement in performance on modern hardware. The point is that it is not constantly defragging in the background like older versions. Instead it runs silently and is not at all noticeable. |
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| said by jmorlan:said by gate1975mlm:The more I read about this and here from tech people like Leo Laporte defragging really is not needed any more like it once was. It can't hurt anything of course but defragging is not as important as it used to be to have a speedy computer.
Of course if anyone can proove this wrong I would love to hear about it
I am a long time user of Diskeeper I always get the upgrade plan but I am really close now to ending that and just not using diskeeper or any other defragging program for that matter.
Current versdions of Diskeeper claim to prevent fragmentation by forcing files to be written to disk with adjacent segments. The feature is called "IntelliWrite Fragmentation Prevention." I believe this feature generally works as advertised, but it is not likely to make a noticeable improvement in performance on modern hardware. The point is that it is not constantly defragging in the background like older versions. Instead it runs silently and is not at all noticeable. That is all marketing hype. Nothing in Windows can prevent fragmentation because windows uses NTFS which fragments easily. Just look at the other disk formats Linux, OSX uses and they don't even have I think defrag programs.
All Diskeeper will do is run unneeded processes in the background using resources and for a 0.0001% speed increase. It is not worth the time or money. |
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