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UltimateDefrag Optimizes your hard disk for apps you use the most
by Brad Linder May 23rd 2008 at 1:00PM
UltimateDefrag is a free disk defragmenting utility for Windows. While defrag utilities are a dime a dozen (cheaper actually, since there are plenty of good free programs). UltimateDefrag sets itself apart from the crowd by letting you give priority to the files and applications that you use the most. Essentially, what that means is UltimateDefrag will move the chunks of data you need the most to the highest priority portions of your hard disk.
While UltimateDefrag's "high priority" feature won't make your programs run any faster, you may notice that programs launch a bit more quickly.
You can choose from several different methods for defragmenting your hard disk. You can process fragmented files only, consolidate your directories so that they're all next to one another on you hard drive, order files and folders by name, organize your disc by the most recently used data, or select the auto feature to let UltimateDefrag decide what's best for your PC.
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BillyG said 1:43PM on 5-23-2008
Somebody doesn't defrag their HD! Mine only had 2 green circles :-)
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RP said 2:00PM on 5-23-2008
Maybe yours is empy? :-)
RP said 2:12PM on 5-23-2008
I had to download it -- anything with a circular diagram must be cool. And it shows you which files are where... a novelty.
Yeah, mine was all green too, but then I clicked the "Analyze" button. The chunks turned mostly blue, with some red.
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Rocketboy said 2:30PM on 5-23-2008
Whoppie, it crashed the first time I tried to stop a defrag and exit.
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poopy_pants said 8:18PM on 5-23-2008
what a waste. the display is kinda neat but the program is a POS. stick with auslogics disk defrag. it's super damn fast and accurate.
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Jared C. said 10:36PM on 5-23-2008
Any clue what this would do to a RAID setup? particularly RAID0
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Mikado said 3:55PM on 5-28-2008
You probably wouldn't like it. Of course, anybody running RAID0 is used to working without a net.
jfjb said 6:46AM on 5-24-2008
don't I remember the good old Norton defrag program used do the same where-do-you-want-your-files, plus the whole nine yards everybody and his sister are doing...
long time no see for a "file-location" contender or am i missing something?
Oh, yes, it's free.
What's a POS, poopy-pants?
This program didn't blow on me, but when I right-click on the drive to get the volume info AFTER analyze was done.
Doesn't crash BEFORE analyze.
Ran a SATA 250GB full at 80% in several hours, yes, but I was drinking beer, so who cares?
Oh... sorry, you want real-time-defrag? Never mind, then.
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Mikado said 7:58AM on 5-29-2008
Reading their "documentation" raises all kinds of red flags. It reads exactly like a used-car huckster wrote it. Often that's a sign of more hype than substance. The defragmenter appears to work well, though the claimed benefits are dubious at best. I also wonder if the defrag program considers block remapping, where a drive reports that it's reading or writing from a certain c/h/s location while physically writing the file where ever it wants to (common on large block devices).
But the display sure is cool looking.
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Rui said 1:52PM on 8-20-2008
I use JKDEFRAG (GNU).
http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/
It's simple and it can be set as screen saver (for those who forget defragment).
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