[cclearner Update Changing local drive to SSD]

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Any idea of why ccleaner (v5.31.6105, 64-bit) update now recognizes my local drive as a solid state drive?  It is a  Hitachi hard drive

 

Storage
  Hard drives
    HITACHI HTS725032A9A364
     Manufacturer Hitachi
     Product Family Travelstar
     Series Prefix Standard
     Model Capacity For This Specific Drive 320GB
     Heads 16
     Cylinders 38,913
     Tracks 9,922,815
     Sectors 625,137,345
     SATA type SATA-II 3.0Gb/s
     Device type Fixed
     ATA Standard ATA8-ACS
     Serial Number 110307PCK304GKJ14A7K
     Firmware Version Number PC3ZC70F
     LBA Size 48-bit LBA
     Power On Count 3426 times
     Power On Time 486.6 days
     Speed 7200 RPM
     Features S.M.A.R.T., APM, NCQ
     Max. Transfer Mode SATA II 3.0Gb/s
     Used Transfer Mode SATA II 3.0Gb/s
     Interface SATA
     Capacity 298 GB
     Real size 320,072,933,376 bytes
     RAID Type None

[ccleaner V5.3 is reporting my HHDD as a SSD]

Just updated to ver 5.3 and now ccleaner is reporting my hard drive as a SSD????

 

Storage

Hard drives

ST500LM021-1KJ152

Manufacturer Seagate

Heads 15

Cylinders 60,801

Tracks 15,504,255

Sectors 976,768,065

SATA type SATA-III 6.0Gb/s

Device type Fixed

ATA Standard ATA8-ACS

Serial Number W62ELSL7

Firmware Version Number 0004LIM1

LBA Size 48-bit LBA

Power On Count 532 times

Power On Time 120.9 days

Speed 7200 RPM

Features S.M.A.R.T., APM, NCQ

Max. Transfer Mode SATA III 6.0Gb/s

Used Transfer Mode SATA III 6.0Gb/s

Interface SATA

 

My temporary solution was to revert back to version 5.29 which solved the problem

[Defraggler, Auslogics Disk Defrag Pro, and Diskeeper Pro]

Community

 

Looking for some insight as some of you have most likely used other defragging products.  For years I used Diskeeper Pro until this product no longer supported external drive.  Then I purchased Piriform Defraggler have used other Piriform products.  Satisfied with Defraggler I have used it for years.  Recently I purchased a LaCie 6TB drive and found that it would take  1 - 2 days to defrag ~30 percent of the drive, typically spending 10 - 12 hours at the 48-49 percent mark.  So I've tried a competing product from Auslogics called Disk Defrag Pro which will defrag my Lacie in ~ 4 to 6 hours.  Obviously not all defragging software are equal.  Any one have a reason why Drefragger would take nearly 2 day to defreag an external drive.  Because I own both products I typically use Defraggler on my local  (I prefer Piriforms interface) and use Auslogic on my external (for at least a year until my subscription runs out). Personally I prefer Piriform's products and will remain with Piriform.  But anyone have any insights regarding the defragging time (and or capabilities) between Piriform and Auslogics.

 

Jeff

[Defraggler taking excessively long time]

mta - that's fro the recommendation.

 

Willy2 - its a 6TB hard drive connected through a 3.0 USB hub.

[Defraggler taking excessively long time]

Connection method : USB 3.0 hub

External drive use: It is  my backup (#1) drive - no backups during the defrag

Type of Defrag - Full

Drive Use.  No.  The Lacie is strictly used for backups and it also maintain my movie library. I run "SyncbackPro" every other day to back up my local drive and then (now) backup the LaCie (which was just defragged) every Sunday evening.

 

Yea I've set Defraggler to defrag at > 5% right now.  The rearrange comment seem correct as I regained ~ 18 of the little white marker squares.  So it just must have been a case or rearranging the hard rive.  But 4 days was a long time.  It only took a copy of hours to transfer the 1.52 TB of data from my NAS over to the external rive.

[Defraggler taking excessively long time]

Forum

 

I recently transferred 1.52 TB of files to a 6 (5.45) TB LaCie 2Big external drive. The preceded to use Defraggler to defrag the files after transferring.  The disk was approximately 4% fragmented.  It took approximately 87 hours (~ 4 days) to defrag.  At one time, it took approximately 9 hours to go from 64% to 70% finished.  The disk does contain approximately 700 movie files which maybe have been the culprit.  Does it take a long time to defrag larges files?  Either way 4 days seems and inordinate amount of time.

 

 

Sincerely

 

[Long defrag time when 0% framentation]

mta

 

Thank you for the insights.  So apparently all it was doing was rearranging files - wasted time.  I  have my schedule settings running to often; so  I've reset to defrag at startup only when 10% or more. I use to run Diskeeper Pro but it no longer supports external drive and so I moved over to Defraggler which seems slower but probable a difference in defragging algorithms.  So I'll see how the new settings work for both my external(s) and local drive at 10%

[Long defrag time when 0% framentation]

Forum

 

Over the weekend  I noticed that Defraggler took 9 hrs to defrag a LaCie 3 TB drive (6TB, RAID 1 configuration) with 0 Total Fragments and 0% Fragmentation before defragment took place.  Why should it take so long?  I would think that as the file became less and less fragmented over time it would take shorter periods of time to defrag.

 

On a side note  what would the Forum recommend as a default "Schedule" daily, weekly, monthly or based upon a percent fragmentation?

 

Jeff

 

[Secure Overwrite Highlighted/Checked]

Thanks for the insight.  I really don't have any need to "securely" clean files and or my unused space.  But it has been interesting experimenting with ccleaner and Recuva (which has been a life saver).  File "deletion" (securely) and MFT's clean up is quite a complicated issue.

[Secure Overwrite Highlighted/Checked]

Recuva Discussion

 

Curious to know if I am using Recuva correctly.  When I perform a search, then Switch to the Advance Mode, and highlight or check a sequence of files to be Overwritten (State: Excellent) I find that if I rescan the files don't appear to have been overwritten.  What might I be missing 

 

Jeff