your opinion: best util to defrag/clean up your hard drives?

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Posted by Beautiful Beast on Jul-30-2006 22:53:

your opinion: best util to defrag/clean up your hard drives?

What do you think/use?

cheers,

BB

Posted by Lindo on Jul-30-2006 23:11:

Diskkeeper go buy it it's only like $40. Best I've seen yet and does a great job.

Posted by Beautiful Beast on Jul-30-2006 23:52:

Lindo, great I'll check it out.

BB

Posted by DJSentinel on Jul-31-2006 04:29:

Backup and reinstall system software. I do it every 6 months. It makes your computer last longer.

Posted by Lindo on Jul-31-2006 04:50:

IMO, I think if you have your system defrag every night, have a moderate amount of diskspace free and have an installed virus protection, then you should be pretty set. Just don't go doing anything stupid. You should post this in the chill out forum lol although it's cool over here too. Now about the technical production aspect of defraggers...they could really use some music while you're defragging so that in case you're stuck around for a little, you can listen to some hot breakbeat or something

Posted by Beautiful Beast on Jul-31-2006 07:53:

true, the fact that it takes such a long *ss time to clean up and defrag keeps me from doing it frequently. Maybe if the util would launch a litle loop based toy to play around and make up for production time lost ?

BTW: somebody told me you have to defrag the drives a couple of times in a row, for it to really be effective. Do you know if this is true? Does it also go for Disk Keeper?

BB

Posted by mysticalninja on Jul-31-2006 08:26:

Defrag every night? LoL. Unless your moving files around on your harddrive or installing programs or downloading gigs all day that's useless.

Posted by Storyteller on Jul-31-2006 12:55:

You don't defrag every night? oh shit, you're screwed man! Do it now!

Posted by mysticalninja on Jul-31-2006 13:45:

I think I'll do it a couple times to make up for all the nights I missed!

Posted by messytechie on Jul-31-2006 21:06:

Diskeeper with all your drives set to Screen Saver mode.

Thats what all the cool kids have.