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title: Does defragmentation really help?
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wordpress_url: http://blog.10ninox.com/2009/01/25/does-defragmentation-really-help/
date: '2009-01-25 06:56:38 +0700'
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- defrag
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<p>I was not defragmentation believer that much until using Outlook for a while and most of Outlook users would know how darned slow it is. I usually have to wait about &gt;30s to be able to open the mail otherwise Outlook will freeze for 5 sec or so.</p>
<p>Now—since my machine has done disk defrag, now I could use Outlook as fast as Thunderbird <em>[might not that fast, but waiting few sec comparing to a min is fantastic.]</em> Ohh my god! it’s really helping. My outlook databases (3*IMAP) are about 800MB, 500MB and 200MB. FYI, whole defrag process is about 5 min or so for my 120GB with about 50% free of space.</p>
<p>I don’t know which one is the best, but I can say that <a href="http://www.auslogics.com/en/software">Auslogics Disk Defrag</a> is worth checking out. It’s free and fast, enough huh? If you have any advice, I would love to hear.</p>