Comments on: Free Windows Tool: Auslogics Disk Defrag

By: jefry

jefry — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:18:27 +0000

Its being referred to as a debilitating disk disease nowadays. I think its safe to control the growth of fragmentation because harmless as it may seem in the initial stages, after a certian limit it can be a pain to deal with, especially if the drive has no free space left.

By: Lightwave

Lightwave — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:10:40 +0000

These days with larger harddrives and the time required to defrag these monsters, manual defragmentation is quite outdated IMHO. An automatic defragmenter that runs in the background and defrags intelligently (ie. not indiscriminately for every little fragmented file) during system idle is a more elegant solution. With a good auto defragger, wasting time with manual or scheduled defrag can be avoided, yet the drives will remain fragment-free most of the time.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:03:31 +0000

I can’t believe a brand new reader beat all you resident techies to the punch.

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:19:44 +0000

n0ia said:
there used to be a program out there to defrag your paging file, but I can’t seem to find it now.

Sysinternals for the win.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/PageDefrag.mspx

Hear hear for Ext3. It’s nice not having to worry about that stuff, although Linux enables you to do even more effective things like RAID0 to speed up hard drive access.

By: n0ia

n0ia — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:46:14 +0000

Ugh, I really hated having to defrag my windows partition from time to time. Thankfully Ext3 (Linux) partitions rarely get to the point that they need defragged.

Your analogy is probably the best I’ve ever seen trying to explain to a complete computer illiterate person why they need to defrag. I will definitely tuck that one away. I’ve found myself trying to explain it, but usually just resort to the “you NEED to defrag” line.

Also, there used to be a program out there to defrag your paging file, but I can’t seem to find it now. I’m not sure how crucial that is, but I figure every little bit helps, right?