Seeking Advice on HD Defraggers

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Haven been given two Dell Inspiron B130 LT's recently (one wouldn't boot, the other took 2 min) I've been experimenting with one. Reloaded WXP from scratch, stopped all unnecessary services to speed boot time, added another 500MB of Ram to bring it up to 1G.

Both HD's are Hitachi Travel(death)Stars, 80G, ultra100? interface. Thought perhaps a newer HD would be faster, but the specs on this are the same as the others.

In years past, I've used Defraggler. Been reading up on free space defrag, moving frequently used files to beginning of drive, etc. I've also used Auslogics Disk Defrag, which is quite fast. Read some very good things about PerfectDisk and another I think called SmartDisk. Also heard of one from Puran.

Any advice on this? How often should I do it? Are pay-for df's better than free ones? Seeking more detailed info on HD management.

Also, I noticed that this LT has a mini PCI buss for smartcards and wondered if I could plug in more memory here or some other device to improve performance. Is this buss speed faster than memory on a USB2 port? I've noticed some USB2 memory sticks are now 'stubs' or 'nibs': tiny little devices that maybe are just left in all the time to function as a SSD?

Thanks for responding
 
bus speed isnt the same as actual speed as hdd dont saturate the bus.. pretty much ever. (ssd's can)

Don't obsess too much use something like auslogic defrag
once every couple weeks

its more than adequate.
 
Defraggler should be sufficient. I agree that you shouldn't obsess over it too much, there's very little different.

Suggest moving to an SSD. No more defragging and the speed difference is insane. Prices have fallen and warranties are very good (up to 5 years on some).
 
+1 for Defraggler. Also remove the useless items in in your startup (CCleaner is great for doing that if you don't like using MSCONFIG).

Regards, JC.
 
I use Auslogics Disk Defrag for my Win XP machine, I've had very good results with it. It's also free.
 
I use UltraDefrag as it has multiple optimization routines that have been beneficial (at least in synthetic benchmarks) as well as Puran Defrag. Pair emwith CCleaner + CCEnhancer and you are all set.
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Originally Posted By: Triple_Se7en
I use my Windows XP Disk Defragmenter
I'm willing to switch, should someone convince me the on-board one is subpar.


its ok but auslogics disk defrag is free and better.
 
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