Windows 7 defrag — limited free space consolidation
In our continuing update on Windows 7, I wanted to look today at free space consolidation. While the Windows 7 built-in defragmenter’s command line interface has an option to force free space consolidation, this option is not specified for the default schedule. In order to force free space consolidation, the Windows 7 defrag schedule has to be be modified to include this parameter. Not many people want to do that.
Why is this important? Since the default behavior of the Windows 7 defragmenter is to not force free space consolidation, any moderate amount of file write activity will result in new files being created in a fragmented state, slowing down disk write speed and causing an immediate fragmentation issue for these new files. And for enterprises it’s even worse - with no central management ability, it is a time consuming and resource-intensive process to configure the Windows 7 defrag to force free space consolidation in its scheduled defrag pass.
With PerfectDisk’s advanced Space Restoration Technology, in the same single pass that PerfectDisk defragments files, it also consolidates the available free space on the drive into the largest possible pieces, which improves drive write performance. As research giant Gartner reported:
“The Windows built-in defragmentation tool is a multi-pass defragmenter that must be run over and over to defragment the disk, especially when defragmenting very large disks with heavy fragmentation and limited free space. As such, multi-pass defragmenters characteristically fragment the remaining free space on the disk, which accelerates fragmentation later. It is recommended that a third-party single-pass defragmentatio tool be implemented instead.”
Sometimes free isn’t quite good enough. Free yourself - write faster.
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Humm could you spell check it please … “write activity will result in nwe files being created ” … I think you mean “new” not “nwe”? I could be wrong as I am dyslectic…
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the catch — sorry about that. New is now spelled correctly.
Joe