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Good defragers

Zombies Tossed My Salad!Zombies Tossed My Salad! Registered User regular
edited February 2007 in Games and Technology
So I am in need of a good defragger. One that will do a damn good job and one that will run with a small amount of space left on the HDD. Recommendations?

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2007
    Windows' built in one works fine. If you have a small amount of space left, you're not really going to get much of a benefit - there's less space for Windows to move everything around into..

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  • Ramen NoodleRamen Noodle whoa, god has a picture of me! Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I use AusLogics Disk Defrag.
    Good, free, and fast.

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  • DírhaelDírhael NorwayRegistered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Raxco's Perfectdisk 8 is one of the best ones available. Fast, reliable & even works with Vista. The only drawback I can think of is that it's not free, but $40 isn't to bad imo.

    Other options would be O&O Defrag & Diskeeper, but both are more expensive and none of them do a better job.

    Oh and no, the Windows built-in one most certainly does not do a good enough job. Not even close.

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  • Whiniest Man On EarthWhiniest Man On Earth Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Diskeeper is the shit.

    And I'm the expert.

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  • DírhaelDírhael NorwayRegistered User regular
    edited February 2007
    defrag wrote: »
    Diskeeper is the shit.

    And I'm the expert.

    Got nothing against the product itself, but what I do have a problem with is their "want to use our application on another version of Windows or perhaps add a few more features? Pay us more money!" policy.

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  • 4rch3nemy4rch3nemy Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I am absolutely positive that good, resource-minimal, and most importantly, free defraggers exist out there. I used to have one, but I don't remember the name of it anymore. Woops.

    So chalk me up there in the "I want a free, and good one as well" category.
    Dirhael wrote:
    Oh and no, the Windows built-in one most certainly does not do a good enough job. Not even close.

    Oh, and QFMFT.

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  • RiqaRiqa Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I've always used the the free version of Dirms; small, no installer, ran through the command line and is fairly fast. Unfortunitly I cant seem to find a download link for the most recent version of it anymore.

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  • st0ned messiahst0ned messiah Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Ashampoo Magical Defrag

    It runs all the time (assuming your computer isn't doing anything) and you never have to think about it. Amazing piece of software.

    Because of the way it works it doesn't matter if you only have a little bit of space left on your hard drive (of course it can't move files bigger than the amount of free space remaining).

    http://www.ashampoo.com/frontend/products/php/product.php?session_langid=2&idstring=0144

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