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JackNaylor

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  1. Yes, I have used defraggler before .... and that's exactly what I did. 1. Used FBackup to make a copy of Drive R ... was surprised that it left the target drive fragmented... Our previous software when conducting a backup operation took one file at a time and left 0 degragmentation, was surprised to see this happen. 2. I ran the normal defragmentation and I wound up with one fragmented file, as I recall is was a large game install file ... as I said, it showed 1 minute left for several hours so I stopped it. 3. Then I ran the normal defragmentation again and got the 203 Fragmented files / 6,931 fragments / is 51% fragmented while using only 20% of the drive space (80% free). 4. I then did a Defrag free space (not allowing defragmentation) and I had over 2,000 files fragmented. 5. Finally I did the Windows defrag and got to the 9 fragmented files /44 fragments / 11% defragmentation (26.5 GB). The SSHD drive is only 20% full.... it has plenty of room to move large files wherever it needs to ... don't understand why 40% of space between the 1st and last file is free space 6. When we used Diskeeper, the post defrag results was always "tight"
  2. No edit button ? Just did a windows defrag .... reduced to 9 fragmented files /44 fragments / 11% defragmentation (26.5 GB) with the empty space (white boxes) between file locations equal to about 40% of the filled space (red and blue boxes)
  3. On my home office box, my son, a pilot, temporarily copied some FlightSim files to one of my SSHD data drives which was then backed up to our backup drive. After realizing that these were not excluded from the backup, I removed it from the backup drive and deleted the files (some 200 GB) from the backup drive. As it's a AutoCAD data drive, I wanted to keep the files as close to the outer (faster) edge of the platters as possible so defragged it. It got to a point where it had one large defragmented file in 3 fragments with "1 minute" left and then continued to run for an hour. Had to reboot so I stopped the defrag and after doing some system maintenance, tried defraggler again and let it run overnight. The drive now has: 203 Fragmented files / 6,931 fragments / is 51% fragmented while using only 20% of the drive space (80% free) ? What gives ?
  4. 1. For years I used Executive Software's Defrag program and it was great. As time went on and Win 7 pro came along, the need lessened as we more and more started storing different files types on different drives or partitions. The built-in Windows Defrag served our needs well enough. Only time really need something better is when cleaning a data drive ... especially a mirrored backup drive. When files are deleted on a source drive, it doesn't remove the deleted ones. So ever once and a while, I wipe the backup drive and start over. My son keeps some files on that drive related to his Flight Sims , maps and other data that he needs as a pilot as well as 1 or 2 steam games. All drives are SSHDs which comes in handy as files accessed frequently load faster, with the large AutoCAD files being of greatest concern. I did a defrag using defraggler yesterday ... it finished in about 3 hours. It's a 2 TB SSHD with two partitions. The 1st partition on the outer (faster) part of the drive is for active files. The old archived files are on the 2nd (slower) partition. I defragged the 1st yesterday. Today I went in and got rid of some recycle bin files belonging to another user (my son). So before setting up the backup software to get going again, I figured I'd defrag one more time. I started at 12 noon, it's now 7:45 pm and it says it need 9 hours . There are 241.2 GB of Used Space and 690.2 GB of Free Space. It says it is 32% done. It just changed to 9 hours and 15 minutes. The Graphic shows 10 rows of blue (Not Fragmented) squares with about 10% white (empty) at the top. Yesterday there were a lot less white squares. Been watching it as I type (and eat dinner ) .. it's will now complete in 9 hours and 45 minutes. The same 2 squares have been active for quite some time, one about 40% across screen one does yellow followed by one about 75% across screen going green. This has been going on for about 40 minutes. All the while the file names in the status window change about every 3 seconds. Meanwhile the fragmentation column says 0% fragmented and the status remains at 32%. Below those 1st 10 rows, there's about 20 or so almost all white rows, along with 9 red (fragmented) squares, 2 purple (MFT) and two blue ones averaging about 3 colored squares per row. So I guess the question is ... what's taking so long and why stuck at 32% for 8 hours when the whole time it was reading and writing files. I stopped it, ran Windows Defrag and it completed in about a minute. Tried Defraggler again and it says "an hour" .... managed to get to 33% and 45 minutes to go in about 4 minutes. 20 minutes later still says 45 minutes and 38% 2. With 75% of the drive free and planning to use the rest for a mirror backup ... goal is to get all these files in a relatively contiguous space so as to have the archived files at the back of the drive 3. I did see the option of running it with the option of putting files at the end of the drive. Don't see why I would ever choose that option, if anything I'd want the opposite. 4. Don't quite get the discrepancy between 0% fragmented files and 16 (now 70+ red squares at 44%) ... at least its not flashing the same 2 squares yellow and green for an hour and is closing up all the blank spaces this round.
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