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File placement optimizing on the other hand, boosts your theoretical hard drive file access performance by up to 300% of manufacturers quoted averages (typical performance increase you'll experience is between 25 and 100%) by placing the files you want performance from onto the faster performing (outer tracks) areas of your hard drive. With UltimateDefrag, you can specify which individual files, programs or games you want the best performance from. The "Archive" function places all of your unused files out of the way and onto the slower performing areas of your hard drive. UltimateDefrag is the world's most powerful defragger in terms of the file placement flexibility it gives you for defragging and strategically placing files on your hard drive - right down to the individual file level. It is the only product in the world that actually acts to boost your hard drive performance beyond average quoted performance. Thats not all. Theres much more on the website. For the moment, its more then enough. As a regular defrag user, initially with Diskeeper products, then Raxco PerfectDisk 2008, its now my turn to check if UltimateDrefrag 2008 from DiskTrix. Its really so much different then all the other defraggers and it seems to me much more powerful. One thing is for sure; you are able to control individual files/directories by placing them on specific locations on the hard disk. Ok, youre not able to put a files or files in a specific cluster/block, but youre able to place hardly used files on the inner tracks (archive area) of your hard disk and frequently used files/directories on the outer (high performance) tracks. But what the heck is the archive are and performance area? Dont worry Ill try to explain all those things oh my god, where should I start and hopefully Ive convinced you that UltimateDefrag2008 is a 100% competitor of the well known big defraggers. As usual, big name and brands doesnt mean automatically that they are good or flexible to handle. It seems that this defragger is very flexible in use, when you dont know anything about it, dont worry, theres also an automatic option that balances between flexibility and performance. Lets quickly start.

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In computing, file system fragmentation, sometimes called file system aging, is the inability of a file system to lay out related data sequentially (contiguously), an inherent phenomenon in storage-backed file systems that allow in-place modification of their contents. It is a special case of data fragmentation. File system fragmentation increases disk head movement or seeks, which are known to hinder throughput. The correction to existing fragmentation is to compress files and free space back into contiguous areas, a process called defragmentation. When a file system is first initialized on a partition (the partition is formatted for the file system), the entire space allotted is more or less empty. This means that the allocator algorithm is completely free to position newly created files anywhere on the disk. For some time after creation, files on the file system can be laid out near-optimally. When the operating system and applications are installed or other archives are unpacked, laying out separate files sequentially also means that related files are likely to be positioned close to each other. However, as existing files are deleted or truncated, new regions of free space are created. When existing files are appended to, it is often impossible to resume the write exactly where the file used to end, as another file may already be allocated there thus, a new fragment has to be allocated. As time goes on, and the same factors are continuously present, free space as well as frequently appended files tend to fragment more. Shorter regions of free space also mean that the allocator is no longer able to allocate new files contiguously, and has to break them into fragments. This is especially true when the file system is more full longer contiguous regions of free space are less likely to occur. Note that the following is a simplification of an otherwise complicated subject. The method which is about to be explained has been the general practice for allocating files on disk and other random-access storage, for over 30 years. Some operating systems do not simply allocate files one after the other, and some use various methods to try to prevent fragmentation, but in general, sooner or later, for the reasons explained in the following explanation, fragmentation will occur as time goes by on any system where files are routinely deleted or expanded. Consider the following scenario in relation with the image. A new disk has had 5 files saved on it, named A, B, C, D and E, and each file is using 10 blocks of space (here the block size is unimportant.) As the free space is contiguous the files are located one after the other (see example 1 on the right). If file B is deleted, a second region of 10 blocks of free space is created, and the disk becomes fragmented. The file system could defragment the disk immediately after a deletion, which would

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Defragmentation menu items

View menu items

Tools menu items

Help menu items

Highlight File tree search option
Identifying a block/cluster contents
These screenshots show you a part of the friendly and realistic GUI (Graphical User interface) of a hard disk, also the possible top menu options. Specifically the last two lower screenshots are very handy when you want to know where a file or directory is positioned or where to look for it.
Oops, thats a lot of information, but I hope its not that difficult. Before I continue, lets give you an example related to Flight Simulation, since thats the importance of this review. Files within FS9/FSX are all important. One probably more than the other, but in general all files are needed to run FS9/ FSX satisfactory. This directory and its sub folders need to be accessed quickly. Quick access read loading times is done when all folders are located on the High Performance area of the hard disk. This area is/are the outer track(s) of the hard disk. To have as much space as possible available here, we move, for example, Windows XP/Vista security updates and/or Service Pack data to a location on the hard disk which is slow. Remember, this data is infrequently or never accessed. The hard disk space located on the inner tracks is known as the Archive area. By moving infrequently accessed data to this archive area, we create additional free space for the high performance files/ folders. This is disk trix! You are able to manipulate files/folders to either the High Performance and/or Archive area. Dont worry; the next chapter hopefully - explains this with a real example. Menu items (left hand side) There are many menu items located on the left hand side of the main panel. As said before, Im not going to highlight all items since most of them are self explanitory, except for a few which are very handy to know.
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The yellow Options item will be partialy explained the rest can be found in the manual - during the MSFS configuration because it allows us to manipulate between High Performance and Archive data. Directly below this yellow button you will find all the possible fragmentation options like fragmented file only, recently changed file/directories or even a simple one, the AUTO option, also known as OptiSeek technology.

Although its not the complete description of the GUI with all the left hand menu items, Ill try to show you what can be expected. During an actual MSFS configuration, additional things are explained. For now, the GUI is refreshing, totally different then regular defragmentation programs but nonetheless, it's at least the same quality and speed. Due to the flexibility of moving files/directories to the Archive or High Performance areas, it's a big plus if youre a power user. Directly below this, youre able to tell the defragmentation program how much system recourses may be used, selecting the slider between 100% and 10% in steps of 10 or just AUTO. Finally, there are the START and PAUSE buttons, which do not need any additional explanation. Something which cannot be reached via a selector or knob, is the ability to see which files and directories are included in a block/cluster. This can be easily done by clicking a block on the hard disk platter. It highlights white and below the PAUSE button, a list appears with all files/directories in this cluster range. In the example, Ive selected cluster range and clearly it can be seen that it starts with the $Boot part. Ok, all those details are not always important but with a simple click, youve got direct access to all available hard disk data. With the end of this small chapter, Im closing the main UltimateDefrag 2008 window. As mentioned before, its not a complete description of all the menu items since they're already explain in the manual. I know, you dont have the manual yet but on the other hand, marking the specific highlights is important, as well as the possibility to place files on the High Performance and/or Archive areas. Together with the actual startup tests and increased loading times, it's either worth or not worth the money. So, lets continue to the next part where the real testing is done!
MSFS configuration and test ride
Before I start with different test configurations on two computers, I want to make one thing clear. The tests are intended for MSFS users or games in general. That doesnt mean that the program cant do more then this. The same as with the other defraggers, it can be used for every kind of defragging job. Optimizing Windows in general, placing Windows in the High Performance area or special installed programs, preference for *.exe and/or *.dll files, or just doing regular defrag jobs. But dont forget and I say it again, moving specific files/directories to the Archive and/or High Performance areas is unique. Either this option is used in combination with the AUTO option or is manually selected by the power user.
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Introduction For the test ride I use an IBM ThinkPad R50p with Flight Simulator 9.1, scenery enhancers, airport sceneries as well as add-on aircraft. Ok, lets first quickly look at the IBM ThinkPad configuration; Pentium M 1.7Ghz CPU, 2Gb RAM, Graphics Chip ATI Mobility Fire GL T2 128Mb and standard non RAID EIDE 60Gb HDD, running on Windows XP Professional SP2. Additionally, the Flight Simulator 9.1 configuration has Ultimate Terrain Europe, SimWings/Aerosoft airport sceneries from LFBO Plus, I installed the CLS DC-10 Series Collection, the Wilco Publishing A340-300 and Flight1s Super 80 (DC-980). Find here the following startup configurations: Situation I Flight1 Super DC-9-80, parked at a gate of Aerosoft's airport scenery EDDF, Situation II - CLS DC-10, parked at a gate of Aerosoft's airport scenery LFMN Situation III Wilco Publishing Airbus A340-300 at Aerosoft's airport scenery LFPG. Flight Simulator 9 conditions are CLEAR sky and 12:00 AM daylight. For the first tests, I defraged my hard disk using the standard Windows XP Defrag program, which is by the way, a limited version of its big brother, Diskeeper. Once the UltimateDefrag 2008 defragmentation process is finished, I started my PC from scratch 5 times, and loaded FS9 with one of the three test situations (I, II or III). I didnt reload FS9 after shutting it down since the measured FS9 startup is much faster than from scratch. This is because FS9, or parts of it, are still in the PCs RAM. I used the freeware program TimeLeft to calculate the total startup time from the moment I click the FS9 shortcut until a configuration was fully loaded. Windows XP default Defragmentation Program Average Startup Times (Notebook IBM ThinkPad R50p)

Flight1 Super 80 at EDDF

CLS DC-10 at LFMN

Wilco A340-300 at LFPG

I Flight1 Super DC-9-80 external view, parked at a gate of Aerosoft airport scenery EDDF > 03:11 seconds, II - CLS DC-10 VC cockpit view, parked at a gate of Aerosoft airport scenery LFMN -> 02:42 seconds, III Wilco Publishing Airbus A340-300 external view at Aerosoft airport scenery LFPG -> 02:54 seconds. High Performance / Archive configuration Dont worry too much about the startup times. They are just for this PC under these conditions. What is important, is the comparison when DiskTrix will reorganize the location of the High Performance files.

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When UltimateDefrag 2008 is finished with defragmentation, the startup times are suddenly x% less. It proves with this PC and non-RAID hard disk configuration, the effect of placing the complete Flight Simulator 9 (or FSX) on the outer tracks of the hard disk. So, please join me on the next trip, the installation, configuration and defragging of UltimateDefrag 2008. Lets have a look at the given advice from Robert Ferraro from DiskTrix. The goal is placing all the FS9 (FSX) to the High Performance area of the hard disk and - not necessarily - the archive data to the inner tracks by following these steps (also see the screenshots belonging to Graphics presenting High Performance- and Archive steps table): Make the following selections from the Options menu: High Performance part: - Leave the Automatic box unchecked, - Check the Custom box and Select the FS9 (FSX) directory to the left window, - Select Strict placement (sorted) Archive part: - Leave Automatic unchecked, - Check the Custom box and Select the Windows Security Updates and other backup data. If you have idea leave this option/box unchecked, - Leave Fast placement (consolidated) as it is. Exclude Files: - Leave Custom unchecked. Leave Respect Layout.ini unchecked. Continue from the main window by selecting the Consolidate menu. When selected, the options become active (blue highlighted). Click the Option part. From the Consolidate Options windows tick the following items only: - Respect high performance, - Complete high performance then stop, - Respect archive. Finally click from the main window the Start button. Ok, first the Archive defragmentation is started, if selected to do so, followed by the high performance defragmentation. When monitoring this process, you can see that the Archive process is busy placing the selected directories on the inner tracks of the hard disk. After this, it starts with the High Performance process and theres a problem!
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Processing Archive Since I selected to Archive Windows Security Updates and old Service Pack data, the requested data is placed on the inner tracks.
Processing high performance The selected FS9 (FSX) files/ directories are placed on the outer tracks, but unfortunately behind the $Logfile, before the pagefile. sys and after the MFT.
UltimateDefrag 2008 has finished Archive - and High Performance defragmentation but unfortunately it is not able to relocate the pagefile.sys and MFT. This results in having the FS9 (FSX) files not at the optimum location, which are the outer hard disk tracks.

As can be seen on the screenshots, the FS9 (FSX) files are not placed on the outer tracks but after the $Logfile, before the pagefile.sys and after the MFT. In other words, since we havent relocated these files pagefile.sys and MFT we are not able to place the FS9 (FSX) files on the outboard outer tracks. Since this wont happen with UltimateDefrag 2008, we need to do a trick without using UltimateDefrag 2008 and thats downloading I know, it sounds ridicules but its the only way - the 30 days trail version of PerfectDisk. Probably other defragmentation programs can do the same but what we need to do is to perform an offline defragmentation where the pagefile.sys and MFT are relocated to another location on the hard disk. That will result in enough space for a contiguous High Performance area on your hard disk. You dont believe me, just watch what happens next! A note in relation to the offline defragmentation with PerfectDisk. On page 44 of the manual item 5 Does UltimateDefrag defrag my MFT and Page Files we can read that the current UltimateDrefrag version is not able to this, but work is in progress and will be free of charge for registered users. The program can defrag the MFT during normal defrag options, but not offline. This means its not able to reposition the MFT to a different hard disk location like PerfectDisk can during an offline operation. Once the MFT is moved during an offline job, you dont need PerfectDisk anymore!
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Select from the PerfectDisk menu Disk Properties. Tick from the Offline Defragmentation the Master File Table and Paging File
On the main panel tick behind the respective here the C:\ - Boot Time. Here shown within the red square.
An analyze command shows a totally different lay-out. The Pagefile.sys is relocated while the MFT is dramatically reduced and also at another location.
With the same settings as you UltimateDefrag 2008 is busy The High Performance left UltimateDefrag 2008, you moving all the FS9 (FSX) files/ defragmentation is finished click the Start button again, directories to the now and now it is as it should be. available High Performance as can be seen above. On the outer track cluster 1, area. FS9 (FSX) files/directories can be found here. On the last screenshot, you can see that FS9 (FSX) files are now placed along the outer tracks of the hard disk. When this HP process is finished, the defragmentation is automatically stopped. Not strange, since we ordered it to do so! Ok, we continue our DiskTrix story. Make the following selections in the Options menu: High Performance part: - Leave the Automatic box unchecked, - Uncheck the Custom box, - Leave Strict placement (sorted) as it is! Archive part: - Leave Automatic checked, - Leave Custom unchecked or if you selected it before, uncheck it, - Leave Fast placement (consolidated) as it is. Exclude Files:

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- Check Custom and select Files button, - Tick the FS9 (FSX) directory out of the tree and Windows or backup directories, if selected before. Leave Respect Layout.ini unchecked. Continue from the main window by selecting the Consolidate menu: Click the Option part. From the Consolidate Options windows check/uncheck the following: - Leave Respect high performance checked, - Uncheck Complete high performance then stop, - Leave Respect archive checked. Finally click from the main window the Start button. The last UltimateDefrag 2008 run is taking place. All the remaining defragmented files (non High Performance or Archive ones) are put in place. Now its time to show you, with the help of screenshots, the previous described procedure. more or less. Graphics presenting High Performance- and Archive steps
Screenshot IV Consolidate options selected and ticked the shown option for first run!
Screenshot V Option menu Exclude Files selected and marked all previous directories.
Screenshot VI Consolidate options selected and unchecked Complete HP then stop before running for the second time.
Screenshot I Option menu High Performance and Archive selections.
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Screenshot II Select Files knob HP selected and FS9 (FSX) directory located and moved
Screenshot III Select Files knob Archive with several directories located and moved to the LH
to the LH window. Close via the OK button.
window. Close via the OK button.
The above six screenshots are not representing all the steps done to place all the necessary files/directories to the High Performance and Archive area, since its not a tutorial. On the other hand, together with the previous step-by-step procedures, it should give you a better idea of how to make the best settings by visualizing it. Most important of all, what are the results and is it really worth buying this product or is it performing lower then expected? First of all, dont expect wonders. By wonders I mean, dont expect that UltimateDefrag 2008 is 50% or more faster than its main competitors like PerfectDisk, Diskeeper or O&O. Those defragmentation programs also have all kinds of special defragmentation options, mostly through automatic options. However, UltimateDefrag 2008 really does offer faster loading times and offers the high end user much more flexibility, like placing high performance files/directories on a hard disk location where the performance is the best and it also allows the user to place hardly used files/directories to a unimportant archive location, located on the inner tracks of the hard disk. UltimateDefrag 2008 test run Lets have a look at the modified FS9 startup times when the hard disk is defragmented by UltimateDefrag 2008: I Flight1 Super DC-9-80, parked at a gate of Aerosoft airport scenery EDDF -> 02:54 (mm:ss) ( 8.6% faster), II - CLS DC-10, parked at a gate of Aerosoft airport scenery LFMN -> 02:24 (mm:ss) ( 11.1% faster), III Wilco Publishing Airbus A340-300 at Aerosoft airport scenery LFPG -> 02:39 (mm:ss) ( 8.1% faster). It seems to me that when more than just the default add-on aircraft, airports and/or other software is loaded, a higher difference is noticed between a regular defrag (default Windows XP) and DiskTrix defragmentation. Although the difference between setup I (Flight1 Super DC-9-80 plus EDDF scenery) doesnt look impressive 03:11 < - > 02:54, it is an increase of almost 8.6% and that's just by placing the FS9 (FSX) files/directories to the outer tracks. Ok, so far so good. The figures are based on the default XP defragger compared with DiskTrix UltimateDefrag 2008. Since Im still working with PerfectDisk 2008 Professional, I wanted to give it a shot and see for myself what the differences are between PerfectDisk and UltimateDefrag 2008. I ordered PerfectDisk to perform a SmartPlacement defragmentation including an offline defrag of the pagefile.sys and MFT. With this done, its time to check the startup times of the three created FS9 configurations. Here are the results after defragmentation via DiskTrix: I Flight1 Super DC-9-80, parked at a gate of Aerosoft airport scenery EDDF -> 02:53 seconds, II - CLS DC-10, parked at a gate of Aerosoft airport scenery LFMN -> 02:24 seconds, III Wilco Publishing Airbus A340-300 at Aerosoft airport scenery LFPG -> 02:42 seconds. The differences between SmartPlacement from PerfectDisk and UltimateDefrag 2008 are minor although UltimateDefrag offers much more flexibility and monitoring possibilities. Apart from that, its even cheaper than its direct competitor. For those who lost the overview, find below a table with all the different performances, tested on my IBM notebook.

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Notebook IBM ThinkPad R50p (Intel Pentium M 1.7Ghz / 2Gb RAM / ATI Fire GL T2 / 60Gb EIDE ATA-133) X% faster times in relation to the default (built in) Windows XP Professional Defragger (xx:xx = mm:ss) Flight1 Super DC-9-80 external view, parked at a gate of Aerosoft airport scenery EDDF Commercial Level Simulations DC10 VC cockpit, parked at a gate of Aerosoft airport scenery LFMN Wilco Publishing Airbus A340-300, parked at Aerosoft airport scenery LFPG Win XP Defrag 03:11 UltimateDefrag 2008 02:54 (8.6% faster) 02:24 (11.0% faster) 02:39 (8.6% faster) PerfectDisk 2008 02:53
Another test my Dell Precision
I thought testing UltimateDefrag 2008 on my IBM was enough, but for some reason I also wanted to test UltimateDefrag 2008 on my RAID-0 configuration fitted in my Dell Precision. Its not that difficult except that FS9 and FSX are stored on the 2nd partition of the SCSI drives. To be exact on the D:\ drive and according to Roberto Ferraro, this isnt the best solution. For the moment, we'll have to live with that since a complete reinstall is a little too much work for this review. Here we go. One test was done while it was defragged by PerfectDisk 2008 Professional, while the second test was done with UltimateDefrag 2008. Other important differences compared to my IBM are the totally different calculated startup time. These startup times are based on the moment I clicked a saved flight configuration in the FS9 Select a Flight window. All the FS9 conditions; CLEAR weather, daylight operations, add-on sceneries and aircraft including Ultimate Terrain software, are the same as during the IBM tests. The only thing that differs is the type of computer, including the hardware. Also, the Flight Simulation partition is probably not the best one since it's all on the D drive, which is the second partition of a much larger disk. As can be read in the UltimateDefrag 2008 manual, it's better not to use partitioned disks and instead of this, use the High Performance defrag option of DiskTrix. My Dell PC is configured in this way and it was a little too much work to reinstall all the software just for this review. Ok, Dell specifications can be found in the "Test System box. I created the following FS9 Dell configurations and below that you will find the different startup times. Situation I Flight1 Super DC-9-80, parked at a gate of Aerosoft airport scenery EDDF -> 02:53 (mm:ss), Situation II - CLS DC-10, parked at a gate of Aerosoft airport scenery LFMN -> 02:24 (mm:ss), Situation III Wilco Publishing Airbus A340-300 at Aerosoft airport scenery LFPG -> 02:42 (mm:ss). PerfectDisk 2008 Professional (trail version) Average Startup Times (Dell Precision Workstation 650)

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Captain Sim 757 VC at KMIA

Captain Sim 757 at KBOS

Wilco A330-300 at EGLL
I Captain Sim 757-200 VC cockpit, parked at a gate of FlyTampa airport scenery KMIA -> 01:15 (mm:ss), II - Captain Sim 757 Freighter external view, parked at a gate of FlyTampa airport scenery KBOS -> 01:18 (mm:ss), III Wilco Publishing Airbus A330-200 external view at Aerosoft airport scenery EGLL -> 01:15 (mm:ss).
Dell Precision Workstation 650 (Dual Intel P4 Xeon 3.06Ghz / 4Gb RAM / 7800GS 512Mb / SCSI-320 RAID-0 340Gb) X% faster times in relation to Raxco PerfectDisk 2008 using SmartPlacement (xx:xx = mm:ss) Captain Sim 757-200 VC cockpit, parked at a gate of FlyTampa airport scenery KMIA Captain Sim 757 Freighter external view, parked at a gate of FlyTampa airport scenery KBOS Wilco Publishing Airbus A330-200 external view, parked at Aerosoft airport scenery EGLL PerfectDisk 2008 01:15 01:18 01:15 UltimateDefrag 2008 01:12 (4.0% faster) 01:14 (5.1% faster) 01:10 (6.7% faster)
A final word about all these tests: I did test it not only during loading of FS9, but also during taxiing or flight. The only problem is how to compare this with the default Windows defragger or PerfectDisk 2008. You can expect the answer already; you cant compare that since the environmental conditions are different. No, not clouds etc. since I can switch those OFF, but for the ground texture files its different. One or two miles off track from the previous test and with different textures loaded automatically results in different flight experiences. Because of these problems, Im only offering you different static loading times, but those are generally good enough to judge the dynamic situations. Also, the fact that I didnt use FSX, however, I think the times under FS9 are representative for FSX.
Summary / Closing Remarks
The one and most important question that rises is, is it worth buying this program instead of PerfectDisk, Diskeeper, O&O or other payware/freeware defragmentation programs? I think it is for many reasons.
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First of all, theres minimum use of system resources, a very small downloaded program of no more then 3Mb (3.6Mb when installed), good price/quality and it offers much more flexibility than other defragmentation programs and above all, it gives better/faster FS9/FSX loading times. Remember what I said before, dont expect performance increases of 50% or more, but together with all the previously mentioned items, its a very good deal! UltimateDefrag 2008 offers a refreshing GUI (Graphical User Interface) with a totally different look than youre used to from other defragmentation programs. Although its a personal opinion, I like this virtual platter more than the basic square hard disk representations of all the others, but it has nothing to do with if its working fine or not. Experienced or not? UltimateDefrag 2008 offers lots of possible fragmentation processes. If you like using it manually, then go ahead, but if you dont like that idea, then leave it all to the AUTO (OptiSeek technology) option while the program finds a good balance between performance and defragmentation speed. Since its an ordinary defragmentation program with much more flexibility for the experienced user, it's not only applicable for FS9 (FSX). It seems that this review is all about that, but this is only to show the power in relation to Flight Simulation or any other game. Not only games, but also other important programs you have, can be placed in the High Performance area.

Test System IBM ThinkPad R50p Intel Pentium M 1.7Ghz 2Gb RAM DDR ATI Mobility Fire GL T2 60Gb non-RAID HDD Windows XP Professional SP2 FS9 with update 9.1 Dell Precision 650 Dual Intel P4 Xeon 3.06Ghz 4Gb RAM DDR 533Mhz nVidia 7800GS+ 512Mb AGP RAID-0 HDDs - SCSI 340Gb Windows XP Professional SP2 FS9 with update 9.1 FSX with SP1 + SP2 Test Time: 53 hours
As you can see, many things are possible with this tiny UltimateDefrag program. Currently while writing this, theres a limited offer of just $29.96 (17.48) until June (perhaps longer) and after this period the price goes back to $39.95 (23.30). A very important item and worth mentioning again; none of the competitors offer a free Windows Server defragmentation product. They offer it, but you need to pay additionally for it. Of course, its only applicable for those who have a Windows Server at home otherwise you dont need it or may not even be interested in it. One last item and thats related to FPS (Frames Per Second) in relation to this defragmentation program or other defraggers. A well balanced defragged hard disk doesnt help increasing your game's frames per second. It helps reduce loading times because the files are neatly placed together in a cluster. The drives heads do not have to go from the end to the beginning and back, thus not only reducing the overall loading times, but also increasing the life span of the drive due to less mechanical moves. It will probably reduce stutter while flying. By the way, this is not only dependent of a good defragged disk, since it also depends on many other things which are not covered here as thats outside the scope of this review.
What I Like About Ultimate Defrag 2008
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Good price/quality product Very nice, fresh and more realistic hard disk interface One program for all! That means you can use it for all 32 or 64 bit Windows XP, Vista and Windows Server 2003 or 2008 Operating Systems. Comprehensive and at the same time, well written manual Beginners can use the AUTO defragmentation option (OptiSeek technology) while advanced users can manipulate files/directories to the high performance and/or archive area of the hard disk Actual file processing progress, moving file and directory - visible during the defragmentation process It works not only on single hard disk systems but also on RAID systems, irrespective for PATA, SATA or SCSI disks The license and software offers you to install it on Windows XP and Vista PCs as well as on Server Operating Systems like Windows 2003 and 2008.
What I Don't Like About Ultimate Defrag 2008
No offline defragmentation of the MFT (Main File Table) and Page Files is possible, but work is in progress and when it becomes available, it is free of charge of current 2.x.x users

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