# what do you use to defragment?

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-defragment/61282>\
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [January 13, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-defragment/61282 "2009-01-13T20:09:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![pirite](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pirite/32/5308_2.png) [@pirite](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/pirite)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-defragment/61282/1 "2009-01-13T20:09:45Z")

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do you use windows or do you have another program?

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**Author:** ![BillysRevenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@BillysRevenge](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BillysRevenge)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 8:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-defragment/61282/2 "2009-01-13T20:11:20Z")

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O & O

can be found on the 'noid

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**Author:** ![pirite](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pirite/32/5308_2.png) [@pirite](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/pirite)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-defragment/61282/3 "2009-01-13T20:27:16Z")

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sweet. ill have to try this one out cause im sick of windows’ defragmenter.

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**Author:** ![Vile](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vile/32/7595_2.png) [@Vile](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vile)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 4:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-defragment/61282/4 "2009-01-14T04:18:05Z")

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perfectdisk

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**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 4:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-defragment/61282/5 "2009-01-14T04:20:25Z")

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I just use windows built in joint.

with vista, it automatically does it 🙂 so no more scheduling and that kind of BS

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**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 5:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-defragment/61282/6 "2009-01-14T05:47:15Z")

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I never defrag :wtf:

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**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 5:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-defragment/61282/7 "2009-01-14T05:48:08Z")

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NTFS Filesystems do no require defragmenting, idiots. That is a FAT thing.

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**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 5:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-defragment/61282/8 "2009-01-14T05:52:37Z")

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> [@boardjnky4](#):
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> NTFS Filesystems do no require defragmenting, idiots. That is a FAT thing.

thats not 100% true… ‘they’ say it doesn’t fragment, but it does. (just not as much as a FAT system)

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**Author:** ![JCuz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jcuz/32/7338_2.png) [@JCuz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JCuz)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 6:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-defragment/61282/9 "2009-01-14T06:18:25Z")

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tune up utilities, has a lot of other nice features as well

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**Author:** ![9c1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/9c1/32/7392_2.png) [@9c1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9c1)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 6:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-defragment/61282/10 "2009-01-14T06:40:42Z")

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diskeeper

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**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 7:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-defragment/61282/11 "2009-01-14T07:25:04Z")

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my computer sucks at life, but i use windows defrager

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**Author:** ![chaztor](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/chaztor/32/5302_2.png) [@chaztor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/chaztor)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 7:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-defragment/61282/12 "2009-01-14T07:28:42Z")

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jkdefrag. its the best yo.

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**Author:** ![garbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@garbs](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/garbs)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 4:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-defragment/61282/13 "2009-01-14T16:12:48Z")

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lol…windows 😛

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**Author:** ![deebo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/deebo/32/5218_2.png) [@deebo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/deebo)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-defragment/61282/14 "2009-01-14T16:16:55Z")

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windows live one care

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**Author:** ![JustinH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JustinH](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JustinH)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 5:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-defragment/61282/15 "2009-01-14T17:23:35Z")

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I use perfectdisk. Got it from a torrent, its not worth buying defrag software.

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**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-defragment/61282/16 "2009-01-14T17:49:02Z")

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TuneUp Utilites 2008

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**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-defragment/61282/17 "2009-01-14T17:49:15Z")

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i just use the basic windows, works perfect for me.

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**Author:** ![Vile](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vile/32/7595_2.png) [@Vile](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vile)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-defragment/61282/18 "2009-01-14T19:04:45Z")

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> [@boardjnky4](#):
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> NTFS Filesystems do no require defragmenting, idiots. That is a FAT thing.

:asshat:

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**Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 8:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-defragment/61282/19 "2010-12-29T08:16:48Z")

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Bump.

Have a server with 17% free space on a 500GB RAID mirroring drive. Over 600,000 files and here is how bad it is…

![http://i54.tinypic.com/bi6ouc.png](http://i54.tinypic.com/bi6ouc.png)  
Was able to get a 12 hour outage window and it was only 3% complete. Suggestions for tools or ideas? Only thing I am thinking is to move as many of the files as I can to a USB drive and then run it and then recopy them and try it again.

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**Author:** ![Gl1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gl1/32/5471_2.png) [@Gl1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gl1)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 8:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-defragment/61282/20 "2010-12-29T08:20:11Z")

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I use Auslogics Disk Defrag. NTFS does need to be defragged, just not as much as a FAT partition.

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