Advice Request Which Disk Defrag Software do you use?

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Which Disk Defrag Software do you use?


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LASER_oneXM

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2-3 years ago i performed on my SSD a so called "clean" installation of win7. When you start the installation routine of windows then windows automatically chooses the best settings (defragementation, trim, pre-fetch, etc) for your SSD. As far as i know:
by default windows turns all optimization options off for a SSD. Simply because they are 'useless': the don't increase the
performance of a SSD. You should not change these settings made by the windows setup/setup routine for a SSD.
Also: any other tools/3rd party tools that are offering optimizations for a SSD are also simply useless/not recomended.

On the other side: defragmentation of HDDs is neccessary. It increases the performance and reliability of a HDD.
 

Duotone

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Before even considering buying which I'm really tempted to what are your opinion with Diskeeper?! It now uses DRAM which was previously only available with V-locity sort of RAM cache.
 
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None - I have 2 SSDs & 2 HDDs - you shouldn't defrag an SSD
 

RejZoR

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This is why I'm not using defrag software anymore :)

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Adz.

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MyDefrag is the fastest. It's currently what i'm using for both my SSDs and HDDs!

I dumped all the other 3rd party defrags, all rubbish.
 

TairikuOkami

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I use Windows Defrag running from Windows USB at boot, it is fast and it performs pretty well.
 

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Pat MacKnife

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In the past i used auslogics and smartdefrag, but since Windows 8 and 10 I use Windows built-in Defragmenter which i find also realy good.... i think there is no need for all these other programs.
 
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_CyberGhosT_

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I had to select SSD you don't have the "Hybrid" option up there,
I was using the default windows tool, I can Defrag a hybrid drive
but I was trying to not "optimize" it too frequently .
I may look at O&O seeing how many here swear by it ;)
 
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