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<blockquote data-quote="MacDefender" data-source="post: 919484" data-attributes="member: 83059">I haven&#039;t researched this product much other than what the description says. I think in general spending money on optimization products is probably not the best use. Almost all defragmentation tools are built on top of the same Windows APIs. It is generally not necessary to defragment a SSD, and a SSD gives you much much better performance than a hard disk, so in terms of defrag tools I would just stick with the standard Windows one or something like JKDefrag, which is free and open source and implements the same kinds of algorithms: <a href="http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/" target="_blank">JkDefrag v3.36 (kessels.com)</a>. Again, these days, if your system drive and most of your applications aren&#039;t on a SSD, you really should get them on an SSD. Any SSD is faster than a defragmented HDD will ever hope to be, and there are a wide number of lower-cost SSDs where you can get a TB or so of storage at a reasonable price.(In terms of why you should defrag a SSD, one reason is for repartitioning to consolidate space. And if you have something like a database server or a device that&#039;s many years old, a make-all-files-contiguous light defrag might actually be helpful to reduce number of IO&#039;s, but that&#039;s maybe a yearly or less frequent thing. It&#039;s not like a HDD where even a week&#039;s worth of fragmentation can seriously slow down daily tasks)The other optimization and monitoring features, I don&#039;t see a detailed enough description for me to understand if it&#039;s worth it. It seems to have some interesting functions built in that might make it easier to change certain settings like Windows&#039;s telemetry, but it seems like the bulk of the functionality is something available for free or included in an Internet Security AV package, or just probably doesn&#039;t need to be done.I&#039;m curious if others have a different experience though. I remember in the early 2000&#039;s the necessity of using things like Norton Utilities to clean up Windows, as apps did a terrible job of leaving broken references in the registry and it could actually break the right click menu or cause other weirdness. I just honestly haven&#039;t seen anything like that happen since Windows 10 if not earlier.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacDefender, post: 919484, member: 83059"] I haven't researched this product much other than what the description says. I think in general spending money on optimization products is probably not the best use. Almost all defragmentation tools are built on top of the same Windows APIs. It is generally not necessary to defragment a SSD, and a SSD gives you much much better performance than a hard disk, so in terms of defrag tools I would just stick with the standard Windows one or something like JKDefrag, which is free and open source and implements the same kinds of algorithms: [URL='http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/']JkDefrag v3.36 (kessels.com)[/URL]. Again, these days, if your system drive and most of your applications aren't on a SSD, you really should get them on an SSD. Any SSD is faster than a defragmented HDD will ever hope to be, and there are a wide number of lower-cost SSDs where you can get a TB or so of storage at a reasonable price. (In terms of why you should defrag a SSD, one reason is for repartitioning to consolidate space. And if you have something like a database server or a device that's many years old, a make-all-files-contiguous light defrag might actually be helpful to reduce number of IO's, but that's maybe a yearly or less frequent thing. It's not like a HDD where even a week's worth of fragmentation can seriously slow down daily tasks) The other optimization and monitoring features, I don't see a detailed enough description for me to understand if it's worth it. It seems to have some interesting functions built in that might make it easier to change certain settings like Windows's telemetry, but it seems like the bulk of the functionality is something available for free or included in an Internet Security AV package, or just probably doesn't need to be done. I'm curious if others have a different experience though. I remember in the early 2000's the necessity of using things like Norton Utilities to clean up Windows, as apps did a terrible job of leaving broken references in the registry and it could actually break the right click menu or cause other weirdness. I just honestly haven't seen anything like that happen since Windows 10 if not earlier. [/QUOTE]

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