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Defrag for 10 hours?

post #1 of 23
11/5/09 at 3:47pm
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Yeah, you read it right. My Norton 360 is STILL defraging and has been for the past 10 hours. Now, I hate using norton for Defrags because it does take a long time.

Can ANYONE please recommend a FREE defrag software I can download that just kicks ass?

Many thanks,
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post #2 of 23
11/5/09 at 4:07pm
Windows Defrag?
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post #3 of 23
11/5/09 at 4:17pm
I use this.

cheers ...
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post #4 of 23
11/5/09 at 4:29pm
I've always had good luck with this free defragmenter (I keep it on my thumbdrive)
http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag

I tried this but did not like the run time although I can not argue how well it did the job
http://www.defraggler.com/

This is a great one if you wish to remotely defrag your comptuer
http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/
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post #5 of 23
11/5/09 at 4:43pm
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I downloaded a free 30 day trial of PerfectDisk 10. Read a lot of good reviews and heck, its free to use for 30 days.

http://www.perfectdisk.com/ is the website...
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post #6 of 23
11/5/09 at 4:46pm
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Originally Posted by Darq Nemesis View Post
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This is a great one if you wish to remotely defrag your comptuer
http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/
It is now MyDefrag 4.2.5 as posted.

cheers ...
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post #7 of 23
11/5/09 at 4:48pm
qhn. Sorry didn't know. Thanks for letting me know.
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post #8 of 23
11/5/09 at 4:50pm
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Originally Posted by Darq Nemesis View Post
qhn. Sorry didn't know. Thanks for letting me know.
It fooled me also

cheers ...
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post #9 of 23
11/6/09 at 1:00am
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Originally Posted by Steve@NBF View Post
Windows Defrag?
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post #10 of 23
11/6/09 at 5:38am
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I uninstalled PerfectDIsk and downloaded MyDefrag... all i have to say is:

AWESOME! Make my shut down/boot up time WAY quicker. I downloaded it on my wife's comp too and hers is running smooth too now.

Thanks GHN!
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post #11 of 23
11/6/09 at 9:17am
Defrag-ing is sooo 2005. Get with the times people.
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post #12 of 23
11/6/09 at 10:40am
I just format windows every 6 months or so

it's quicker. Cleaner, and gives me a faster system
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post #13 of 23
11/6/09 at 5:01pm
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Originally Posted by dave-p View Post
I just format windows every 6 months or so

it's quicker. Cleaner, and gives me a faster system
I hate reformatting. I don't do it often at all. Maybe once a year or every year 6 months...
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post #14 of 23
11/6/09 at 5:18pm
If I am busy, defrag once a month is plenty and just right to keep the systems flying. None of my comps have been reformatted, even the 5+ years old Same thing going when I want to put in a larger drive, Acronis clone and I am set.

A couple time I had to perform a full new installation due to hard drives took the dump.

cheers ...
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post #15 of 23
11/6/09 at 6:48pm
Use MyDefrag here, usually once a week along with bootvis,cleaning out prefetch, doesn't take much effort and is the only way to maintain lowish 16 second boot time's with a hard drive in my experience, leave it alone for 2 or 3 week's and boot time grows significantly due to the nature of window's, particularly xp.

I've owned my current notebook for just over a year and have probably reformatted 6 or 7 time's, more due to messing around with different hard drive's, comparing different OS's on clean install's etc, every 6 months would be more normal for me.

I agree with qhn that cloning software is handy, especially if you have a lot of old hard drive's laying around

I guess we'll all be happy when SSD's are cheap
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post #16 of 23
11/6/09 at 11:51pm
So glad i made the switch over to SSD trimming takes minutes compared to the hours of defraging.
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post #17 of 23
11/7/09 at 2:40am
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Originally Posted by Yoob@NBF View Post
So glad i made the switch over to SSD trimming takes minutes compared to the hours of defraging.
Making that change myself soon!
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post #18 of 23
11/7/09 at 5:35am
Do we really want to defrag SSD? What i heard and read so far is that this defrag process can be very detrimental to SSDs.

cheers ...
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post #19 of 23
11/7/09 at 10:09am
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Originally Posted by Yoob@NBF View Post
So glad i made the switch over to SSD trimming takes minutes compared to the hours of defraging.
trim is automatic which makes it so great.

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Originally Posted by qhn View Post
Do we really want to defrag SSD? What i heard and read so far is that this defrag process can be very detrimental to SSDs.

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That's why I said defrag is sooo 2005. The extra writes caused by the defrag process will cause the SSDs performance to degrade. That's why a trim or garbage collection process is necessary.
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post #20 of 23
11/7/09 at 10:29am
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Originally Posted by NWGuru View Post
trim is automatic which makes it so great.



That's why I said defrag is sooo 2005. The extra writes caused by the defrag process will cause the SSDs performance to degrade. That's why a trim or garbage collection process is necessary.
I tend to agree with SSDs about forgetting the defrag on them. But for other HDD types, defrag still play an important role, albeit not overdoing it.

cheers ...
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