UltimateDefrag
Frequently Asked Questions
1. I have
heard it all before - software that promises to speed up my system - and
doesn't. Why should I believe the claims about UltimateDefrag?
2. What does defragging my hard drive with
UltimateDefrag mean for me as a PC User.
3. Does UltimateDefrag have a steep learning curve?
4. What Operating Systems, File Systems and other
hardware is UltimateDefrag compatible with?
Answers
1. I have heard it all before - software
that promises to speed up my system - and doesn't. Why should I believe
the claims about UltimateDefrag?
Firstly, UltimateDefrag doesn't do anything
magical or mysterious to speed up your system but it does do something
logical and that is 1. Analyze which files you use the most and 2. Place
those most frequently used files close together on the fastest performing
areas of your hard drive i.e. the outer tracks. It's based upon a well
known natural law, Pareto's Law as it applies to your file use. This can
result in 400 to 600% raw hard drive performance increase. "Raw"
means without caching and other file access performance improving
techniques which are part of the Windows operating system. Since its raw
performance increase is so great, you'll experience a much faster
performance even with all the performance enhancing techniques that are
part of Windows.
UltimateDefrag Applies 3 Hard Drive Performance
Enhancing Principles To Your Hard Drive:
1. It Minimizes Seek Times For your Hard Drive
2. It Maximizes Transfer Rates
3. It Defragments your Files
No other defrag
software, nor the default Windows defrag, applies the principles that UltimateDefrag does to your file system. They only defrag. Defragging
alone only improves file access performance by around 10%. The other steps
our program performs is where the real performance gains are seen. To
understand this more, please read about the
Science behind UltimateDefrag here.
You can also have some fun
and do your own research with a product called HDTune (www.hdtune.com).
Run some performance tests and see for yourself how the transfer rates
decrease as it reads from outer to inner tracks on your hard drive. Then
try the short stroking feature and watch your seek times increase.
UltimateDefrag achieves the same effect as short stroking your hard drive
on the faster tracks of your hard drive.
There is also a free
program called Readfile (www.winimage.com/readfile.htm)
that lets you safely test read performance on your actual data. Get a copy
of that and move some of your files around with UltimateDefrag and measure
the performance.
2. What does defragging my hard drive
with UltimateDefrag mean for
me as a PC User.
By speeding up your hard
drive file read performance with UltimateDefrag's techniques you help
improve the biggest bottleneck in your PC's performance - your hard drive.
Your system will boot faster and all your programs and applications will
launch faster and your entire Windows performance will be faster. Games,
simulations and any other programs that are constantly accessing your hard
drive during use will experience much faster performance since data
transfer rates are increased and file seek times are greatly reduced.
It will really feel like
you just turned on a brand new PC.
3. Does UltimateDefrag have
a steep learning curve?
Any powerful software you
use can have a bit of a learning curve. UltimateDefrag is no exception. If
you are a power user you couldn't ask for a more powerful tool to tune
your hard drive performance. If you are a non-power user, all you need to
do is select Auto and drag the slider all the way to the right for fastest
performance and press start and UltimateDefrag will do the rest to
rearrange your files for performance up to 600% faster depending upon how
full your hard drive is.
For the fastest everyday
defrags that complete in 2 to 5 minutes and give you the fastest
performing PC possible, simply do this:
1. Go into Settings and in
the High Performance Section enter 30 Past Days Data Was Not Used
2. Select Consolidate
method and in Options Select: Respect High Performance and Complete
High Performance Then Stop
3. Run the defrag.
UltimateDefrag will search
your drive only for files that on average were used in the past 30 days
and place them optimally. It will then stop because this is really all you
need to do for optimum performance. Statistically you use the same files
over and over again. Any new frequently used files will be promoted on
subsequent defrag runs and any files that fall out of the past 30 days
average use criteria are demoted.
The first time you run this
defrag it might take a while (an hour or so on most systems) and
subsequent defrags only a few minutes.... and you will always have the
fastest possible performance from your PC.
4. What Operating Systems,
File
Systems and other hardware is UltimateDefrag
compatible with?
The regular version of
UltimateDefrag is compatible with Windows 7, Vista and XP (all 32 bit and
64 bit versions). There is an XP only version for people who only want to
run it on Windows XP.
UltimateDefrag will work
with FAT32 and NTFS file systems with some advanced features not possible
on the older FAT32 file system.
UltimateDefrag will also
work with all RAID configurations. As long as Windows detects a volume
e.g. C:, D:, then it will work. Many RAID controllers themselves determine
the physical locations of the NTFS virtual clusters so we do not guarantee
placement files to faster performing outer tracks however generally there
is correlation between NTFS virtual clusters and physical locations of
clusters on the physical platters of hard drives in RAID configurations.
UltimateDefrag also works
with SSD (Solid State Drives) however since SSD's do not suffer the same
physical structure limitations that slow hard drives you will not see any
performance benefits from the file placement routines. If you still want
to defrag your SSDs then choose UltimateDefrag's consolidation method with
no options but FragProtect for complete defrags that move minimal amounts
of data. At the end of the day for those who fear that their SSD will wear
out due to too much file writing, UltimateDefrag will move minimal amounts
of data when you select FragProtect and also built in inplace defragging
will also only move fragments that it needs to to make your files
contiguous.
External Drives can also be
defragged. Please note that we do not recommend comprehensive defrags with
USB 2.0 drives due to the slow data transfer (just do Fragmented Files
Only) however UltimateDefrag shines with USB 3.0 drives which are just as
fast, if not slightly faster than internal drives. You can apply all of
the speed enhancing techniques to USB 3.0 drives.
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