Free Fast Defrag Software?

[Chandrasekhar1234]

I once subscribed to this:

https://www.avg.com/en-ww/avg-pctuneup

AVG's Tuneup utilities for its fast defrag. Basically Windows has a defrag software built in, but it defrags everything thoroughly, so for a 3TB hard disk, it will take like 20 hours to do so.

Tuneup however, offers a fast defrag, which is not as thorough, but does the work in like an hour.

Tuneup costs USD 50 per year though, so I was wondering, do any of you here know of alternatives, which have free fast defrag?

Thanks!

[Start_Running]

Pretty much what Faux said. Windows generally (started in XP and has only gotten better each iteration) defrags data in the background. If you happen to work with video-editing or stuff like that yeah you will get some defragmentation since files be deleting, moving, growing and shrinking all the time.

Defragging isn't the problem it was back in the 90's

[Eldin]

IObit Smart Defrag
https://www.iobit.com/en/iobitsmartdefrag.php

Free version is good and offers a lot of Defrag options. From fast Defrag to Deep Defrag and optimise.
Pro version offers some advanced features like registry defrag, boot defrag, etc.

Free version is perfectly good for just defragmenting hard drive.

[Chandrasekhar1234]

Thanks!

Wow I never knew Windows auto-defrags

[Satoru]

Yeah most 3rd party tools for defrag are gone now mostly because MS has now automated it so it’s kinda redundant

Plus defragmentation was more a big issue with FAT/FAT32. But given windows defaults to NTFS and GPT, defragging is mostly a thing of the past that most consumers don’t need to concern themselves with

I ran a MS defrag manually on a 3TB drive and it took maybe 5 minutes to run. Again that’s mostly because MS defragments in the background so running an explicit one doesn’t actually take that long