Disc Wear out

[MathR]

Hello,

I just started using Iobit Disk Defrag, previously I used Auslogics Disk Defrag but a friend told me about SmartDefrag and I decided to give it a try.

What I would like to know is if Smart Defrag has some sort of disk wear out prevention?

In Auslogics DiskDefrag the hard drives won't be automatically defragmented if a defragmentation has already ocurred in the past 12 hours. Does SmartDefrag have similar technology or it just keeps defraging when the computer is idle?

[Toppack]

Hello,

I just started using Iobit Disk Defrag, previously I used Auslogics Disk Defrag but a friend told me about SmartDefrag and I decided to give it a try.

What I would like to know is if Smart Defrag has some sort of disk wear out prevention?

In Auslogics DiskDefrag the hard drives won't be automatically defragmented if a defragmentation has already ocurred in the past 12 hours. Does SmartDefrag have similar technology or it just keeps defraging when the computer is idle?

 

SD has many options:

.Run it Manually, when Needed

.Auto run at computer Boot-up

.Scheduled Weekly run

 

.Defrag Only, w/less wear on drive

.Fast Optimize

.Full Optimize

 

Personally I disable Auto-load and only run it when it's Needed. ;-)

[solbjerg]

Hi

Additionally I think I should mention that you in the settings can choose to have it defragged when the fragmentation exeeds a personally specified percent.

 

Time as such doesn't generate fragmention - activity on the disks does though.

Cheers

solbjerg

 

 

SD has many options:

.Run it Manually, when Needed

.Auto run at computer Boot-up

.Scheduled Weekly run

 

.Defrag Only, w/less wear on drive

.Fast Optimize

.Full Optimize

 

Personally I disable Auto-load and only run it when it's Needed. ;-)

[MathR]

I see, so what you are saying is that if I turn auto defrag on and the fragmentation doesn't exceed a specified amount SmartDefrag won't run. That seems nice :)

 

Just another thing, let's imagine that smart defrag has already started a defragmenting due to the computer being idle, if a schedule system backup starts during this time using a lot of the disk resources will Smart Defrag halt is process??

[Toppack]

let's imagine that smart defrag has already started a defragmenting due to the computer being idle, if a schedule system backup starts during this time using a lot of the disk resources ??

 

I think the Defrag will be Slowed dramaticly, until system back-ups or updates are complete. :shock:

That's one of the many reasons I never Auto-run 3rd-party, data-changing, utilities. :idea:

[enoskype]

Just another thing, let's imagine that smart defrag has already started a defragmenting due to the computer being idle, if a schedule system backup starts during this time using a lot of the disk resources will Smart Defrag halt is process??

Hi MathR, welcome to IObit Forum! :-D

 

It depends which settings you have chosen.

 

SD will stop defragmentation if the CPU (Resource) usage by system backup is above the defined value you have set.

 

Cheers.

[MathR]

It would be nice if an option like "Do not run SD if the following programs are/start running" :)

 

It appears that I can't change the "Defragment when fragments exceed X %" option. Every time that I exit and reopen the program it always get back to 1%.

 

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[enoskype]

Yes, I confirm that there is a glitch choosing the % (percentage) of fragmentation to start SD.

 

It will either stay at %1 or Always Defrag.

 

Thanks for the heads up MathR.

 

Your suggestion is a good one, I hope IObit takes it into consideration as I believe that already, the existing structure of SD is capable of doing that.

 

Cheers.

[MathR]

Thanks all for your help :)