Comments on Techbytes: File De-Fragmentation on the cheap

The utilities you mention are most useful, especia...

2007-11-13T13:55:00.000-05:00

The utilities you mention are most useful, especially when combined with a GPL freeware package called JkDefrag. I have bundled them together in an easy to install package.

JkDefrag is also one of the winners of "The Great Defrag Shootout" and it works much better than Diskeeper 2007 or 2008.

I think the biggest myth is that a fragmented driv...

2007-11-13T05:10:00.000-05:00

I think the biggest myth is that a fragmented drive has no adverse effect on performance. Perhaps it may seem true for initial levels of fragmentation and on PCs which do not engage in disk intensive activites. A severely cluttered drive does increase file access time and slow things down, irritatingly so.