O&O Defrag Professional Review

Disk defragmentation made easy

Submitted by alex2pb on Wed, 2007-05-02 19:07.
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The lowest price: 40.46$
You can buy it at RegNow for that price.
Pros:
Fast and easy to use, does a great job on minimizing the Windows boot time and the I/O operations.
Cons:
Consumes too much CPU power
Review:

As we all know, Windows already has an integrated defragmenter, made in cooperation with the company that today produces Diskeeper. The native Windows defragmenter is somehow a stripped-down version of diskeeper, with allmost no features. Is this tool suitable for optimizing your drives? Let me answer to this question: NO, it's not. Let's see why: First, the Windows defragmenter does not optimize the MFT (Master File Table). This means the boot time will allways be the same and it will increase with the pass of time. A defragged MFT can offer performance gains in load times of folder views, programs and files. By contrast, O&O Defrag does this in a very short time, with the price of taking too much CPU resources.

O&O Defrag comes with a handy set of defragmenting options, allwing you to choose how the data will be (re)arranged on the disks. These options are:

  • Stealth
  • Space
  • Complete/Name
  • Complete/Modified
  • Complete/Access

The Stealth option is designed for use on PCs with large files and little free space, the Space method is designed for heavily fragmented drives, while the other 3 sort the files in alphabetical order, access or modification date.

The program has integrated scheduling and a very nice report generation feature. The interface really looks nice, it's well organized and clean. I strongly recommend this software to anyone that needs a boost in the PC performance.

Conclusion:

O&O Defrag Professional is like its name says a professional disk defragmenter that optimizes your disk, saving space and minimizing the boot and program loading time. This software performed the best in my benchmark and I highly recommend it as the best commercial solution.