Add a "Zone Priority Option"

Hi,

i'm using Defraggler from some time, and i see nice results.

Reading around about other deffraggers algorithm, i find really interesting the concept of "Zones".

That is a "Zone" is a group of files.

For example a Zone could be made up from all the system windows files (dll, drivers, ini, etc) wich are written once and never deleted (or almost never).

So the point of a Zone is to be able to tell the defragger to put all the files in the zone in a specific location on the disk.

In this case for example, the "System Zone" (with all files used by windows) at the beginning of the disk (say Priority 1).

In this way, the already good result of defraggler could give e really great boost to the system files (and ultimately the sentation of quick-responding of windows).

This is even more true with SO like Vista and 7 (not to speak 2008), wich load hundreds of system files at seconds.

I hope i've been clear in my explanation.

Hope this will be implemented as option in this good program.

Thank you very much

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Interesting idea.

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You may be able to achieve similar by partitioning your drive.

Example: You have a 500 GB drive.

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Partition the 1st 100 GB for Windows

Partition the remainder for Backup

Inside Backup, simply create 3 folders for Drivers/Multimedia/Personal

Inside Multimedia, create Audio/Documents/Pictures/Videos

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Good luck!

Using partitions means that is is much more difficult to resize the zones.

I suggested a similar feature here: http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=32112&view=findpost&p=190902&hl=zones&fromsearch=1 before finding this thread.

Using partitions means that is is much more difficult to resize the zones.

Both methods have their good & bad, I suppose:

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Partitions (pros):

- Permanently separate files

- If you have to reformat, the files on the other partition are safe.

- Quicker scan times for antivirus/antimalware/defrag operations on the Windows partition (since the other files are on another partition).

- Viruses on C do not generally affect D/E/F etc.

Partitions (cons):

- Read/write head may have to travel further to read files

- Very slight impact on performance... Not that bad though!

* Vista & 7 include a very easy resize manager. In XP this can be invoked by start/run/compmgmt.msc & enter. Not sure if it works in Vista or 7.

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Zones (pros):

- Files are configured as you wish

- Neater appearance on drive

Zones (cons):

- Files are still on the same partition (scanning times with antivirus/antimalware etc take longer than being partitioned)

- Windows will quickly alter these "neat" zones with scattered placements of files (windows doesn't obey "zones")

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Hmmmm, but then, windows doesn't place files contiguously either, so I guess it's up to the developers!

Would be nice to have I suppose!