[100 hours to defrag a 2tb hard disk that is 90% "free" ?]

Defraggler indicates that a specific folder on my PC, relating to a single application (car manuals & car parts catalogues)exceeds 10gb and that the folder and its sub folders are very heavily fragmented.

 

I will exclude this rarely used folder/files from the defrag process which may speed up the overall defrag process considerably.

[100 hours to defrag a 2tb hard disk that is 90% "free" ?]

I have a new 2tb HDD of which 180gb is used and 1.6tb is showing as free.

 

Defragger Analysis initially showed the HDD as 25% fragmented.

 

After 5 hours, the Defragger status has crept up from 0% to 5%. Presumably this means that the defragmentation process is now 5% complete. If progress continues at this rate, Defragger will take 100 hours to finish.

 

So I stopped Defragger in normal mode and have restarted it in "Quick" mode to see if it is any faster. Maybe then I can go back and restart Defragger as normal i.e. not in Quick mode.

 

Is this normal ?

 

I tried Windows Vista defrag last week and it was even slower - so I am trying Piriform.