PowerDefrag - Add Power to your Defragmentation!!

Sorry, couldn't resist the title =P

We've covered defragmentation before (here) - It is the act of putting files that were broken up back together.

Fragmentation happens because of the way hard drives work - New files are added at the end of what can be described as a very long queue. If changes are made to a file earlier up in the queue, these changes can only be added at the very end of the queue. This results in a file being broken up into a number of fragments, which increases file reading times. This can be fixed with the process of Defragmentation.

The above paragraph is a quick summary of why fragmentation happens, and why it is a bad thing, but the main purpose of this post is to introduce you to a tool that can make your defragmentation process a lot easier.

The question here is how the defragmentation is done - Sure you could run the defragmenter that is built into your Operating System, but did you know that doing so takes much longer than necessary?

Allow me to introduce Power Defragmenter! This is a program that, not only defragments much quicker than your built-in defragmenter, but also has many additional options, such as defragmenting particular files or folders, or multiple drives at once! This program is free, and is based off the free Contig defragmentation program. While defragmenting, a console window will be open to show you the detailed status of the defragmentation.

Here is the download link:
http://cid-94a12102e5094675.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/eXcessive%20Software/PowerDefragmenter.zip