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Hi!
The built-in defragment tool of Windows is not the best one. I heard that there are a ton of better ones out there - but which one is really good?
Started by Sebastian Hoitz on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
I use Magical Defrag , It is pay software at about $20 it to a directory and it will defrag....
But it's portable and appears to work.
The Microsoft defrag utility is a limited version (severly) of the Diskeeper disk.
Gets mentioned.
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Someone told me that it is not always a good idea to defragment a minimally fragmented drive (<2%); and that it could cause performance issues.
Are they right, and why/why not?
Started by CodeSlave on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Also, be sure say, is just mostly useless to do so.
But note that the less fragmented a drive is, the quicker the defrag will run.
The defrag.
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In operation of a virtual Vmware or Hyper-V guest typically advice is given to defrag the host and virtual disk images so to result in improved performance.
Something like a cmd: vmware-vdiskmanager -d <file.vmdk> works great.
Yet I can't find any...
Started by jafin on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Just.
Increase in size to consume the same amount of disk space as your original virtual hard drive .
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Have a few servers and they have not been de-fragmented for two years. Is there a standard for what percentage should be fragmented before defragmenting?
The servers are Windows 2003.
Started by FortunateDuke on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
It defrags in the background, when your computer to and shouldn't if performance....
One tool to thing about is Smart Defrag, by IOBit.
In fact most.
In file serving to make it worth the performance hit of the time it takes to defrag.
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Our [Windows] workstations mostly just run MS Office and our CRM and ERP clients. All real data is stored on the servers. Is there any point to defragging these machines? If so, how often?
Started by Jon B on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Constant defrag is a waste IMO
There's probably little for people just ....
Then put them on a schedule to defrag.
The machine when they're not using it!
Defrag after you load them (or after the image creation) as a minimum.
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It seems to me that since RAID volumes are logical (as opposed to physical), the layout that the OS believes they have might not correspond to the actual phsyical layout.
So does defrag make sense for RAID?
Started by Aidan Ryan on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Servers? Not worth....
RAID5 with a single drive.
RAID0 is just splitting fragmented files up on two drives.
RAID1 is just a mirror of the fragmentation on both drives.
Unless you're running SAN solutions like NetApp with their WAFL layout) .
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My favorite defrag: Puran Defrag by Eclipsed on Wed 28 Jul 2010, 10:24 pm
I just wanted to share this free defrag utility with everyone. It is the only piece of defrag software that I get a noticeable performance boost from and I've tried many defrag ...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at geekpolice):
Re: My favorite defrag: Puran Defrag by Kenny94 on Fri 30 Jul 2010, 8:05 pm
Puran Defrag is what favorite defrag: Puran Defrag by Buttons on Sat 31 Jul 2010, 1:20 pm
I use Defraggler which does very well favorite ....
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How to defrag computer? how do you defrag
Started by claire on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at yahoo):
It may ttake some times the computer tools icon on the ... .
Once opened Analyze the Disk drive and then run the Defrag and let the PC sit.
And show a multi colored tetris like icon with the option to defrag the drives propertys you choose.
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On my Windows 7 x64 Home Premium machine I have set Defraggler to do a boot time defrag at every boot. What files are defragged during this process? MFT? System files? Pagefile? What about regular files that are normally defragged during the standard ...
Started by D Bone on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at piriform):
Is there any way to make it perform a ... .
Do your.
Www.piriform....oot-time-defrag
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Hi,
It seems that a large terabyte hard drive would take a very long time to defrag. Is there a method one can use that would shorten the defrag time and if so, what is it?
Would this work? Putting partitions on the hard drive and only defrag the partitions...
Started by morphine on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at techreport):
Is there a defrag program that just defrags a selected partition, if so, what is the name of ....
Is there a defrag program that just defrags a selected partition, if so, what is the name of the program?
Thanks.
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