Usually I ignore the warning but it doesn't defrag some of my larger files.
DISKKEEPER DEFRAG EXTERNAL DRIVE FREE
I constantly fill my hard drives and I am usually left with under the 15% that is recommended free by windows. But the biggest benefit I see (at least for me) is that some defragers can run when there is very little space left on the hard drive. Norton Speeddisk seemed to take about the same time as windows. I know that Diskkeeper was able to defrag the drive faster then the built in one, but I don't think it did as good of a job. The two benefits I can see to running 3rd party defragers is that some are faster, and some can defrag when there is little space on the hard drive left. Sometimes you may not have time to run it before but at least run it after.
DISKKEEPER DEFRAG EXTERNAL DRIVE INSTALL
So if you install a game or copy a lot of stuff onto the computer it would be beneficial to run it before and after. your hard drive gets fragmented almost any time you put on a file (really small files are usually exempt). Just defrag every couple of weeks or every month to prevent really long defrag sessions. Only a drop because their is a program in the back monitoring what files are being used.įor a free scanner the one that is built into XP works great. There are some programs that state they can organize your hard drive better by monitoring what files are being used more often and stick them on the outside of the hard drive, but I have never seen any performance increase with these. then great one less piece of M$ crap I have to use. If I can get something that works as good or better then the microsoft one. I haven't tried any of the others except for speeddisk (which actually made things worse), but I will have to check out the other programs. If you have a big lets say 2GB file and you need to put it on that drive it is going to get fragmented right away on the one using diskkeeper where the windows will not.
With the XP built-in it would re arrange the files on the hard drive to open up big spaces, but diskkeeper would just remove fragments but never bunch up the data.ĭon't know if what I am saying makes sense so I will do a make shift example. I downloaded the diskkeeper trial, but found it doesn't do much to prevent fragmentation short of running their Set it and Forget it thing (which just slowed my access times).
Microsofts defrag is actually a stripped version of Diskkeeper.
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