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I've done a 30 day trial on both PerfectDisk and Diskkeeper. But it wasn't
time enough to tell which is the faster utility.

Now I have to decide. I have a pretty large HDD--320gig, partitioned--and
want a defrag utility that is fast. Has anyone done any extensive testing on
these two apps...which is faster?

Are there pros and cons to either that would help me decide if the speeds
are pretty similar?

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DW
In the High Desert of Central Oregon
AMD x2 4400
2gig OCZ Platinum ram
nvida GeForce 7800 gtx v.81.98
Windows XP pro sp2
 
DW said:
I've done a 30 day trial on both PerfectDisk and Diskkeeper. But it wasn't
time enough to tell which is the faster utility.

Now I have to decide. I have a pretty large HDD--320gig, partitioned--and
want a defrag utility that is fast. Has anyone done any extensive testing on
these two apps...which is faster?

Are there pros and cons to either that would help me decide if the speeds
are pretty similar?

--
DW
In the High Desert of Central Oregon
AMD x2 4400
2gig OCZ Platinum ram
nvida GeForce 7800 gtx v.81.98
Windows XP pro sp2
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I use Diskkeeper 10 on a 75 gig and a 250 gig hard drive. I'm still able
to run programs more than adequately when Diskkeeper is running. I
haven't timed it against competing apps, though.
 
It's not about which one is faster. After all, you could write a
defragmenter that finishes running on your drive in 15 seconds - but only
defragments a single file and then exits. However, it certainly would claim
the title of being the fastest defragmenter in the universe :)

Look at which one actually improves total drive performance - NOT just read
performance. The clue is free space consolidation. If you don't do
effective free space consolidation and simply defragment files, then read
performance certainly improves - but write performance suffers and as a
result, overall drive performance suffers. I don't know of too many Windows
systems that are strickly read I/O.

How can you tell if effective free space consolidation is being performed?
Depends on the defragmenter. Some provide this information and some dont'.
If you need help figuring out which one does and which one doesn't provide
this information, please holler.

- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows File System

Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a
commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.

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