Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Awesome free disk defragmenters

Not much to be said about this one, these are two really great disk defragmenters I've used on both my machines.

Auslogics
This one is really nice if you just want something simple, it has an auto defragmentation mode that can run in the background and defragment your files in real time. There's also a screen saver version if you're feeling particularly lazy or just leave your computer on all the time. It's pretty fast, but it seemed like I would have to run it a couple times to get the best result.

Quicksys Disk Defrag
This one kind of reminds me of Diskeeper, but without the price tag. Higher system requirements but it doesn't require the 15% free space on the drive like most other defragmenters do, and it has a "Quicksys Intelligent Clusters Allocation" (QSICA) mode that's basically just another way of arranging your files on the hard drive so there's less chance of fragmentation. I've switched over to this one from Auslogics because it seems like it's a little more flexible even though the optimization mode is really slow.

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