O&O Defrag Professional Review

Yes, It is a software meant for "de-fragment" the hard disk volume to make the PC faster in its performance. It is very true that it is just like "Old wine in New Bottle" and one must think about its necessity. Do we really need this software to defrag our hard disk drive? My answer is No. I must explain it.

First of all, Windows have a built in disk defragmenter to rearrange file in its hard disk drive. It is efficient in all aspect as it is developed by the Microsoft professional team. You might wonder what it would exactly do?. Just imagine when we write a book of accounts; we would start every page in continuation of the previous page, i.e., continuation of what we have already written. But in the case of computer, it is some what different. If the computer seeks where it ends the last job and wants to write the next as its continuation it would definitely be a time taking process. (Seek Time to get the end of Block). So naturally the data would be written to a location of nearest “Free Space” to avoid the delay in seeking correct ending point. If it is goes on continuously what would happened? We would get a fragmented data just like first part is written in page 1 and next is on page 4 and next is on page 8 and so on. When we try to read it, we have to go to 1st page then 4 and then 8 and so on. Here it is 3 pages of data, i.e. 1, 4, 8. This is the situation why de-fragmenting is required. By de-fragmenting we can arrange the data in continues pages (1, 2, and 3) to avoid the extra time taking to seek the continuation in page 4 and 8.

So, when window de-fragment the drive all data it possess is arranged in continues manner to read it fast and thus avoiding the lapse in seek time. And of course, it is the matter of nano-seconds.

Windows defragmenter is also have the ability to start at a scheduled time …(to do so one must be familiar with task scheduler) and there is no difference in handling whether the data block is big or small.

Windows de-fragmenter do not show a chart of its progression. Why we need a pie chart to show the process. In my opinion it is not necessary as once the de-fragmentation start we would not be sitting in front of the computer till it is finished, because it is a time taking process. In my sense it is just a beautification process to show a pie chart there.

Since we have a good utility built in with the windows, why we need to pay some money for software that does ‘nothing special’. More over the the time taken by this software is also same as the windows utility.