The one exception may be if you update programs frequently, or if you are trying out new programs and discard them frequently. But, hey, those drives are now for storing data not for running Windows so the absolute speed is not an issue and there’s not much defragging needed, anyway!Īs has been noted many times in Windows Secrets columns, modern dual-core or better computers will not usually notice much improvement with disk defragmentation. transfer speed but we’re running Win 7 which definitely handles defragging very well on its own. so even if Auslogics made things load a little faster would you even notice? Nowadays our “regular” hard drives achieve 96MB/sec. The old hard drives we were defragging back then probably had transfer speeds of between 40MB/sec.

I seem to recall that Auslogics defrag completed faster, and didn’t they claim to move frequently used programs to the beginning/outer edge of hard drive disk for faster loading as well as make files more contiguous? If so, we saw no big improvement, just a faster defrag process.

We used Auslogics defrag on a couple of our XP computers and it worked OK, but we could tell no significant difference in bootup time or program loading compared to using Windows XP’s own defrag feature.

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