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Talk is cheap but bytes are cheaper: speed is the need with multiterabyte hard disks. It's too easy to leave high-capacity disks badly fragmented, robbing your system of critical performance advantages. There's one type of storage that delivers on speed, but at a high cost (as in money): SSDs (solid-state drives) don't use disks and should never be defragmented. But SSDs can be optimized, with care. PerfectDisk Free Defrag is a powerful disk defragmentation utility that can tell SSDs from HDDs. Its unique SSD Optimize feature consolidates the free space on SSDs with minimal impact, extending their useful life in your system.PerfectDisk's Office-style ribbon has all the controls you need for scanning disks and running or scheduling defragmentation jobs. The program's upper half displayed all our drives by name, letter, type, and other headings, correctly identifying our "C" drive as an SSD. But we started with the basics by analyzing and defragmenting our "D" drive, a hard-disk drive (HDD) that is typical of the majority of installed drives. PerfectDisk reported a lot of information about our disk, data, and files, and recommended defragmenting the drive. Slow defragging is a major cause of disk neglect, but PerfectDisk has one of the fastest defragmentation engines we've tried. Of course, it also has a defrag map. Next we read up on PerfectDisk's SSD Optimize feature. Mollified, we ran the scan. But our SSD already ran at peak performance, and PerfectDisk recommended taking no action. We were relieved, since we weren't crazy about "optimizing" any SSD (as opposed to tweaking Windows for SSDs). But PerfectDisk's SSD Optimize feature may be just the thing for getting the most out of older, smaller-capacity SSDs that have been heavily used but still have life in them, especially if they cost way too much when new to retire while they can still serve.
The HTML-based Help manual reflects this program's enterprise-level origins, though some advanced features aren't included (or needed) in this fully functional freeware, such as remote control and Group Policy Support. PerfectDisk Free Defrag puts a fast defragmentation engine and cutting-edge features in the home user's hands.
Publisher's Description
From Raxco:
A defrag and optimization solution for PC and laptop performance. PerfectDisk Free Defrag combines speed, thoroughness, flexibility, control, automation, and ease-of-use to help make your PCs and laptops as fast as possible.
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All versions:
3.4 starsout of 18 votes
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Current version:
3.4 starsout of 18 votes
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"Outstanding Defragger!"
Version: PerfectDisk Free Defrag 1.0
Pros
Relatively fast, but the optimization function actually decreased my boot time. I had been a die-hard Puran and MyDefrag user, but this is the first defragmenter that I actually noticed a difference after use. Somewhat feature-limited (actually, how much do you need-it defrags!) and it has an annoying splash screen, but the benefits may far outweigh its detriments.
Cons
Annoying splash screen deploys at program startup.
Summary
Superb performance at an unbeatable price.
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"perfect product !!!!"
Version: PerfectDisk Free Defrag 1.0
Pros
very fast and very good job for xp
Cons
nothing for me
Summary
better from defraggler and auslogics
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"perfect product !!!!"
Version: PerfectDisk Free Defrag 1.0
Pros
very fast and very good job for xp
Cons
nothing for me
Summary
better from defraggler and auslogics
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"Bugs, limited features and a system resource hog."
Version: PerfectDisk Free Defrag 1.0
Pros
None to speak about.
Cons
Has major bugs that effect installation, defragment errors and add unnecessary services that run at the time on your system eating up resources even when defrags are not active. There are much better stable free defrag tools available like Auslogics, Defraggler, Puran and IObit Smart Defrag.
Summary
This product is in its first release stage and is not stable at all. I don't recommend using it because all of the issues that I listed in the Cons.
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"100% pure crapware!"
Version: PerfectDisk Free Defrag 1.0
Pros
There are no pros.!,this software really sucks!, stay away!
Cons
Failed to install, nothing wrong with my computer, installed software after trying to install Perfect Disk multiple times!,email address required,even tried direct download link, possible they want you to pay for the paid version, possible scam, stay away from Perfect Disk!, Auslogics Disk Defrag. is much better and rates better!
Summary
I would not reccomend this to my worst friend, nothing but a scam!
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"Excellent free defragmenter"
Version: PerfectDisk Free Defrag 1.0
Pros
Does what it is for, and does it well. In addition there are options for boot defrag, schedule defrag. Enough for me.
Cons
Nothing so far.
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"Does what it was designed to do very well!"
Version: PerfectDisk Free Defrag 1.0
Pros
Works fast and efficiently.
Cons
none that I can think of
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"Not as robust as PRO version, but a very bood product!"
Version: PerfectDisk Free Defrag 1.0
Pros
* Fast defrag time
* fast load time
* decent reporting
* FREE!!!Cons
* missing many "bells & whistles"
Summary
Although not as robust as the retail version, you can't beat the price (FREE) !!! Decent reporting and fast defrag times. Not bad at all. I've been using PERFECTDISK since version 7 and trust the prodeuct very much. Great Customer Service!
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"It Does What it Says"
Version: PerfectDisk Free Defrag 1.0
Pros
Fast and Drive options
Cons
None at all
Summary
It does what it is supposed to and does it FAST what more could you want for nothing
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"Not bad but there are better free defrag tools"
Version: PerfectDisk Free Defrag 1.0
Pros
It does improve the system performance but there are other defrag tools doing better.
Cons
Limited features, slow and uses a lot of resources!
Summary
Better defrag tools are Puran Defrag 1st in my list, then Defraggler and finally Auslogic :)
