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We inherited several Win2k8/II7 that host about 40 websites each.

The drives are nearly full at all times, and while we're working on moving a lot of files to the Amazon S3, files are constantly being written and deleted. These are mostly images and dynamically written out asp.net pages.

The drives have not been defragmented for over a year and IO is becoming a real bottleneck.

Besides the build in defrag tool what are other good deframenting utilities are out there?

user9517
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andryuha
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Diskeeper is really good at doing what it does. I'm not so sure you're going to get the performance boost you're looking for though. A defragged hard drive helps with sequential data access (like what's common during a backup). With lots of "images and dynamically written out asp.net pages" you're going to have a lot of non-sequential reads and your performance won't go up much or at all. You're better off engineering a better solution.

Jason Berg
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Ninite.com includes Defraggler and Auslogics.

Wim Kerkhoff
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Good free ones are jkDefrag (old-er, GPL) and myDefrag (freeware).

Alicja Kario
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