MyDefrag Optimises Files On Your Hard Drive

@joelena: I know :).

AtomFury

@penguiniator:Ah, I'll have to look at this new FS.

AtomFury

There is a GUI available at http://mydefrag.8qm.de/

@AtomFury: I just read on Wikipedia that it was introduced in Vista Service Pack 1 and there is a hotfix for XP users available.

penguiniator

@AtomFury: MyDefrag is also portable.

Vista does this automatically.

s0crates82

@unruled: I haven't even looked at my XP box's hard drive to see if it needs it or not. I don't even know if there is a tool included anymore that does it. The XP box has slowed down quite a bit in the past couple of months. I'll have to see.

penguiniator

@FalconFour:
First of all, why the fuck does the comment box close if you click outside of it!? Secondly, you kinda just repeated what I said. This is JkDefrag, albeit the next version and with a changed name. How was I incorrect?

tatsuyame

@tatsuyame: Not quite correct either. MyDefrag is basically JkDefrag V4. The developer changed the name of the utility and completely changed the way the program operates. Just open the forum and it becomes clear...

@Cordfucious of Tech Clan: I have been using Auslogics back then until I found out that Piriform (i hope I got that correct), the one who created CCleaner, also created a defragmenter. It's called Defraggler. I find it better than Auslogics (though Auslogic's screen is nicer to look at) in terms of speed of defragmentation. :D

eirrikr

@tatsuyame:
Sounds possible, but that's out of my level of knowledge lol.

AtomFury

@AtomFury: You can also pause MyDefrag. However, afaik, you can't select specific folders. Possibly with some custom script?

tatsuyame

@orev: Actually, this is not another frontend to jkdefrag. This IS jkdefrag.
http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/index.html

tatsuyame

@penguiniator: I heard they were going to introduce a new FS called eXFAT (from PopSci, IIRC). It sounded like it's coming out first for removable flash media like SD cards and whatnot, but I guess it's possible it will be migrated to desktops as well.

AtomFury

@Gyroscope352: The purpose is not to use all 9001 different backup or defragging utility tools, but to try some of them and see which one you prefer/fits your needs the best.

I personally prefer Defraggler, because Piriform provides a portable version, I can select specific folders for defragging (like a game folder) and I can pause it whenever I so choose.

AtomFury

@penguiniator: I'm not aware of any changes with file management in win7, but Ive been running the OS for 7 months with very intensive use of my drives, only 2% defragmented. Ie. No need to defragment.


Btw, even in XP defragmenting was way overrated.

unruled

@Gyroscope352: You need at least 2. One to backup, and one to backup the backup-er. What of the second backup-er is lost? You have no backups, so be careful.

@four12:
>VM
Storing the HDD on a filesystem suceptible to fragmenting isn't really a fair test :P

EXT4 support would be nice, or at least a new proprietry filesystem. NTFS is so... not new anymore.

@Oneshot417: Dahahaha!

@penguiniator: Even though everybody trumpets that OS X doesn't need defragging, I bought iDefrag and ran it on both my Mac Pro and Mac BookPro and noticed significant performance increases in my virtual machines.

The huge (multi GB) VM files are not optimized by OS X and it's periodic maintenance, but after iDefrag, start up and suspend times are about 50% faster.

four12

Please note that the previously mentioned "jkdefrag" is actually a link to "Jkdefrag-GUI", which is a GUI frontend to jkdefrag. This is also a frontend to jkdefrag. Jkdefrag is what does the lifting for both of these tools.

orev

@UnderLoK: +1

Cordfucious of Tech Clan

Woot! Finally some love for MyDefrag. I've been using it for ages (since beta 1 I believe - and it went through about 12 betas), and I've been using it with my own optimization script since about then as well (the built in ones kinda... stink).

It's still a bit buggy - if your drive is jam-packed with tons of fragmented files and no room to move one of the fragmented files, it'll hang and you've gotta "end task" it (surprised this bug wasn't caught before release... quite obvious), but just its sheer power and ability to script your defragmentation, makes this an extremely useful tool. :)

@Oneshot417: good one.

penguiniator

Much better than the Windows 7 or Windows Vista's built in utility. I liked the XP one before because of the graphical output...it helps me.
For windows 7, i've been using this ever since I installed the OS.

@penguiniator:
EXT4?

Does anyone know if Microsoft will be replacing NTFS with a file system that doesn't need periodic defragmenting?

penguiniator

From Lifehacker. Via How-to Geek. Via Download Squad. Via Filehippo.

Free or not, needed or not, ya gotta admit that if you're in the business of writing utilities like this you'd kill for that kind of marketing traction!

If it shows up on Digg, I'm writing one. :)

The slow optimize option did wonders in speeding up my notebooks overall performance. There is also a portable apps version of jkdefrag available.

Kevin Pheasey

I've been using Auslogics Disk Defrag for ages. It's simple, defrags your damn drive (which is the point), and allows you to schedule it within the GUI.

If you're into the old school defrag graph thing, yea it has that too…

@Oneshot417: Good question...I'd also ask how many backup utilities we need (I feel like there's at least one post a week featuring a new one), but I figure I should just keep my mouth shut, as I am a Mac user who is spoiled with Time Machine ;-)

@Oneshot417:

2: One to defrag your hard drive, and the other to...uh...turn the ladder?

Alexander Yellen

how many defrag utilities do we need?

I started using this because it had an installer (unless its JkDefrag parent). ;)