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Disk Defrag? Do You Use em?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorParsec
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If you want to boost your system, it's far more efficient to buy an SSD for the OS and keep the bulk of your data on a separate drive.


^^ This!

But since especially the "Low-Budget" SSDs have a large variety in quality, I'd recommend to check out for user reviews of the product in question.


Agree. Especially since in some places in the world buying a low-budget SSD is much the same price as buying a WD Black 1TB - trying to convince people to double their outlay on the disk component of their system just doesn't hold water, especially when that low-budget SSD is only 60 or 120GB.

I'm starting to get the impression of this thread that most DvdProfiler owners seem to be financially well off, I never thought that way before. Maybe I need to win lotto to start participating here.
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Maybe I need to win lotto to start participating here.


Not sure if this is a good approach, since it basically means to waste money on lotto first.

Robbing, or even better, establishing a bank, might be the better (and faster) way.
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I'm also old-school where I twitch if my fragmentation percentage is double digits - though I see how high I can get it on my SDD boot/os drive through normal use.


I hope you're not defragmenting your SSD drive? Defragmentation isn't needed and will actually shorter its lifespan. They're a whole other breed than regular hard drives with platters and mechanical seek times. You should use the Trim function for all SSD drives that support it.
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I'm starting to get the impression of this thread that most DvdProfiler owners seem to be financially well off, I never thought that way before. Maybe I need to win lotto to start participating here.


I would have been financially well off if I hadn't wasted all my money on buying movies. But seriously, even a cheap and small SSD will do wonders for most systems. And if you don't need it, don't buy it, simple as that. Personally, I went for a relatively cheap Intel drive for my media pc and keep most of my data on the NAS. The old desktop PC have not had the upgrade though, because it's neither fast, nor silent anyway.
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I'm starting to get the impression of this thread that most DvdProfiler owners seem to be financially well off, I never thought that way before. Maybe I need to win lotto to start participating here.

Don't assume.  I've seen many messages from people who collect discs but feel they can't afford to buy the program.  (Translation: they'd rather buy two more discs than pay the program cost.  <shrug>)

I also suspect there is a higher than average tech (geek) background around here and people would rather have cool toys than eat.  Which is why there are more SSDs and strong opinions on things like defraggers.
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eat? What's that?

While I guess I have a few "toys", I currently don't see the great advantage with SSD's (for the price). If I was in the USA though I'd most probably pay for that Microsoft service that cleans out all the old code and stuff from your Win7 installation and speeds things up a fair bit. And I do have my own proof that disk defragmentation does work (using the right app of course).
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I hope you're not defragmenting your SSD drive?


Nope, sure ain't. It's the platter fragmentation that makes me twitch.

The day old 42mb file with 3k fragments make me twitch too, but that's a different issue.
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Does anyone here use disc defraggers

No.

You have replied incorrectly. Several people here have said that they actually do use defraggers. So the answer to the question if anyone uses them is yes.

I answered correctly, Floorwalker asked the wrong question.
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