- UltimateDefrag1.72 goes for a spin
- Posted by Flasherly on May 28th, 2008
Gave it a shot on a very large FAT32 partition. Very boolean. Very
sweet. Initial menu is "themed" into -- fragmented, condense, folder,
recency, volatility, & auto -- along with four check-boxes for all.
Trick to it is whatever aforementioned option selected works with the
next stage: [top panel menu for] tools then options. Options defines
the actual structure, selecting the disk's named directories and
files. Themes and options always work paired together, in other
words. Over 60G of video and music on an 80G FAT32, I put the music
into the slower (relatively) inner disc sectors, and video in the
faster outer disc diameter, leaving the center open. Apart from
ringing the dinner bell when it's done, best free lunch I've seen in
awhile.for a defragger that gets into the meat and potatoes of
organization.
- Posted by John on May 28th, 2008
Flasherly wrote:
And the free version is where?
John.
- Posted by Johnw on May 28th, 2008
John formulated the question :
- Posted by John on May 28th, 2008
Johnw wrote:
Many thanks.
John.
- Posted by Bear Bottoms on May 28th, 2008
On Wed, 28 May 2008 03:02:10 -0500, John <zen@zen.co.uk> wrote:
http://www.disktrix.com/downloads/Ul...itionSetup.exe
From the horses mouth: they will put a link to the free version on their
site soon.
--
Bear Bottoms
Freeware website: http://bearware.info
- Posted by Franklin on May 28th, 2008
On Wed 28 May 2008 04:15:45, Flasherly wrote:
There was a thread few days ago about UltimateDefrag.
See <news:Xns9AAAE691651F1binhex@127.0.0.1>
As I mentioned, it seems like a perfectly nice enough application
but it is not all that it claims to be. For example, the
application has no way of knowing which sectors are on the inside of
the platter and which are on the outside.
If your own files are mainly video then defragging such that each is
contiguous (well, as far as a logical view permits) and leaving them
anywhere on the hard drive would probably be good enough.
If you get video files which are too big for your FAT32 file system
and you go to NTFS then note that UltimateDefrag will not defrag
NTFS's MFT or the metafiles under Vista.
UltimateDefrag certainly has a good user interface but in
performance terms it does much the same as many other defraggers.
