When you do a full sort you end up moving lots of files around every time. Also, this kind of file placement reduces the amount of file movement required for a complete defrag, reducing wear on the drive but also saving a lot of time. PerfectDisk's SmartPlacement strategy follows a similar logic, although it does it in a different way. Personally I think that JkDefrag's default sequence is the best, because it puts "standard" files first, where they are most likely to be needed, and it leaves space for some temp files near the start of the drive, where performance is good. Judging by the results from UltimateDefrag the order of files doesn't make a huge difference. In your experience would this optimal sorting make much difference? paul While JKDefrag provides a number of ways to sort the files, it doesn't provide this, it does provide sorting by last accessed which isn't quite the same and can be goofed up by scanning the disk for viruses. Though, after running JKDefrag, then running the machine for another week, JKDefrags GUI reports the drive to be in about the same state again!!(not surprising I guess.though what is so amazing is to see how seemingly ineffective the other programs are (other than JKDefrag, that is).ĭonn, many thanks for your great reviews! It would seem to me that the best optimization strategy would be to have the most commonly accessed files at the fastest part of the disk. Then: Start up JKDefrag, and it seems amazing to me how much defragmentation there still is on the drive. Clean disk of junk with both CCleaner and Glary utilities, then run Auslogics (or Windows) defrag program. Take my WinXP desktop which has run for about a week since its last cleanup with the stock Windows Disk Cleanup and Defrag programs. So, I wonder what other peoples thoughts are on this little experiment I ran. Hello, Could you add Defraggler to your DFrag review? Would be very interested to see how this rates. Defragmentation is like a work of art, rushing it makes the end result worse. I loved the speed of Diskeeper, but slow and better defragmentation is better than a fast and sloppy job. I have no idea about how JKDefrag and Auslogics' program works, but I have experience from using Diskeeper. It is seamless and very fast especially on todays large drives Auslogics has a fee personal defrag program that I found is the best. JkDefrag 3.25 was the slowest defrag program I ever tried. My post about your work is here Great work. Since I recommend this for many of my clients, friends, and family I created an easy installer package for JKDefrag 3.26 that can be found on my tools page. This is absolutely my choice and recommendation. I completely agreed with your eval of JKDefrag. I was using Diskeeper 2008 before and I did not notice much increase increase in speed. I wonder what v9 has in store since it was announced on in the PerfectDisk blog. Thanks for this finding this "hidden" tool. Thanks to your reviews, I tried PerfectDisk v8 (build 65) and it was the first defragmentation tool where I actually noticed an increase in speed! I bought it soon after. Donn, thanks a lot for your work evaluating all these programs, i went with O&O and JKDefrag and everything went smooth as silk :D Jorge Garza
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