PerfectDisk Pro 14 Full Crack is the best disk defragmentation and optimization utility, designed to maximize PC performance and reliability including desktops, laptops, virtual environments, and servers.
Generic Company Place Holder PerfectDisk Professional
Note: This review addresses v11 of thesoftware.
Defragmentation is one of the chores of computer ownership,something that's tedious but which has to be done regularly.Windows includes a free defragmentation tool, but there are plentyof competing products. How do you compete with 'free'? You makesomething worth paying for.
PerfectDisk 11 has one of the best blends of features andusability I have seen. A number of other defragmentation programshave as many options, but they tend to be hidden in obscuredialogs, or worse, require you to edit script files. PerfectDisk 11is built to modern interface standards: Everything can be clickedon or off, and the dialogs I saw were clear about what optionsmeant. Furthermore, most settings have a 'Help' button clearlyplaced nearby.
Aside from simple ease of use, PerfectDisk 11 has several otherstand-out features. One is boot time defragmentation, which allowsPerfectDisk 11 to defragment system files normally locked duringuse. (PerfectDisk 11 also has the capacity to take a drive offlineduring runtime and defragment it; this feature should be used withcaution.)
Another very nice feature, one which is usually found only inapplications dedicated to this purpose, is a duplicate file finder.PerfectDisk 11 will scour your disk for identical versions of filesby matching actual data contents, not just names. You can thenexamine the list to delete redundant files. This function could usea few more bells and whistles, especially when it comes to sortingthrough long lists of duplicates (I had a few thousand), but sinceit's a side feature, not the main focus of the application, it'scertainly adequate.
PerfectDisk 11 also allows for the creation of customizedoptimization schemes, to let you maximize free space, access timefor frequently used files, and so on. It also has a decent set ofdisk analysis tools, showing the breakdown of file types, frequencyof use, and degree of fragmentation.
This review covers the Professiona' edition. A slightly lessexpensive Home Premium edition is also available, which lacks theduplicate file finder and some of the defragmentation customizationoptions. Given the range of features and ease of use, it's wellworth upgrading from a free product to PerfectDiskProfessional.
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Generic Company Place Holder PerfectDisk Professional
This excellent defragger has lots of options and smarts...and it actually improves SSD performance (at the expense of a large number of writes).Pros
- Prevents fragmented writes
- Good optimization of hard drives
- Easy interface
Cons
- SSD optimization not worth the number of writes incurred
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What's new in PerfectDisk 14?
PerfectDisk 14 provides new compatibility up to Windows 10 and enhanced S.M.A.R.T. monitoring of physical drives.
Fragmentation Prevention with OptiWrite
PerfectDisk's new OptiWrite technology prevents most fragmentation on your drive before it occurs, which prevents your system from slowing down. OptiWrite detects when Windows is going to fragment files and intelligently redirects I/O to stop the fragmentation from occuring. System performance is maintained and the need to utilize CPU and Disk I/O resources to defragment files is greatly reduced. Because less defragmentation is needed, there is a direct benefit in the form of energy saved in both CPU usage and in the reading and writing to a disk. It saves users both in energy costs and in the time required to defragment a file system.
Space Management
PerfectDisk's new Space Management recovers disk space by detecting and removing duplicate files such as text documents, pictures, music, and videos. Recycler purges the Recycle bin and removes temporary files so that your drive remains clutter free. With Space Reports you can view a graphical and statistical report of file usage and allocation.
Intelligent Disk Optimization
For the limited fragmentation that can still occur, PerfectDisk's patented SMARTPlacement optimization strategy optimizes disk drives according to your unique usage patterns. SMARTPlacement results in the most consolidated free space available, the elimination of most fragmentation before it occurs, and a reduced rate of fragmentation.
SSD Optimize is an optimization method for SSDs that focuses on free space consolidation without defragmentation of files. Solid State Drives are not affected by file fragmentation like traditional electromechanical disk drives. As such, it will leave files in a fragmented state while consolidating free space into large pieces.
Auto-Optimization for Complete Unattended Optimization
PerfectDisk’s exclusive StealthPatrol™ tab is used to set automatic fragmentation prevention and optimize your system when it isn't busy. Auto-optimization affords you the flexibility to optimize your system when it is idle or when the Windows screensaver is active. Auto-optimization provides the flexibility to not run during certain periods of the day or when a user-defined application is running. No other defrag or optimization utility proves this level of flexibility.
Advanced Boot Time Defrag
An important factor in faster PC performance is a thorough boot time defrag. PerfectDisk's advanced boot time defrag capability is able to defragment files that otherwise would remain fragmented such as the Windows pagefile.sys or the file system's MFT (Master File Table) and provides the best boot time defrag operation.
Total disk defragmentation and free space consolidation
PerfectDisk offers the most comprehensive solution for defragmentation by optimizing virtually every file on the system, including the Master File Table (MFT), all NTFS metadata files, paging files, directories, and datafiles, and completely consolidating free space. And it does it all in a single pass. There's also a Selected Files Defrag option that is useful for defragmenting very large files such as video files, rather than defragmenting the entire drive.
S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring
S.M.A.R.T. monitoring capabilities monitor the status of physical drives. It generates warnings and alerts for hardware performance and reliability, helping you ensure you are aware of any potential hardware problems.
PerfectDisk 14 offers the following new S.M.A.R.T. enhancements: Basic and Advanced modes, enhanced detection of S.M.A.R.T. drive failure prediction, enhanced detection/handling of S.M.A.R.T. enabled SSD drives, and S.M.A.R.T. alerts written to the PerfectDisk/Windows Application Event Log.
CPU and I/O - Control Resource Throttling
Perfectdisk provides resource throttling capabilities to manage resource usage as efficiently as possible. I/O throttling allows PerfectDisk to run on very busy disks without imposing additional load on the disk. CPU throttling allows you to raise or lower the CPU priority at which it runs. PerfectDisk uses very minimal CPU resources in its standard processing.
PerfectDisk Pro 14.0 Build 893 changelog:
- Issue with restoring excluded drives fixed.
- Windows 10 files that load during boot time defrag automaticaly decompressed to allow boot time defrag to work.
- ReFS drives larger than 16TB not being seen/processed correctly issue fixed.
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