A performance/progress question on Defrag

I located an old hard drive stored on a shelf the other day and
connected it to my Vista machine with a USB dongle. I decided to defrag
it (350Gb). Now, I already know that Vista's defrag provides NO
indication of progress other than that pretty lame statement that "this
may take a few minutes to a few hours".

I've seen mention of other defraggers here in this NG and am wondering
if any of them provide visual progress indications. Previous OS's used
either marching colored blocks, or slowly moving vertical bands in a
window. Vista's, on the other hand, simply does nothing to indicate
progress.

Do any of the others provide any performance boost (i.e. faster) as well
as any indication of progress?

Questor

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2110604,00.asp

"Questor" wrote:

> I located an old hard drive stored on a shelf the other day and
> connected it to my Vista machine with a USB dongle. I decided to defrag
> it (350Gb). Now, I already know that Vista's defrag provides NO
> indication of progress other than that pretty lame statement that "this
> may take a few minutes to a few hours".
>
> I've seen mention of other defraggers here in this NG and am wondering
> if any of them provide visual progress indications. Previous OS's used
> either marching colored blocks, or slowly moving vertical bands in a
> window. Vista's, on the other hand, simply does nothing to indicate
> progress.
>
> Do any of the others provide any performance boost (i.e. faster) as well
> as any indication of progress?
>
> Questor
> .
>

According to the Auslogics home page, which you can get to after a
404-not found message, on a link in the article, they apparently don't
make a de-fragger anymore.

The interface looks a lot like the one for Smart-Defrag.

Questor

--->
> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2110604,00.asp
>
> "Questor" wrote:
>
>> I located an old hard drive stored on a shelf the other day and
>> connected it to my Vista machine with a USB dongle. I decided to defrag
>> it (350Gb). Now, I already know that Vista's defrag provides NO
>> indication of progress other than that pretty lame statement that "this
>> may take a few minutes to a few hours".
>>
>> I've seen mention of other defraggers here in this NG and am wondering
>> if any of them provide visual progress indications. Previous OS's used
>> either marching colored blocks, or slowly moving vertical bands in a
>> window. Vista's, on the other hand, simply does nothing to indicate
>> progress.
>>
>> Do any of the others provide any performance boost (i.e. faster) as well
>> as any indication of progress?
>>
>> Questor
>> .
>>

--->
> Hi, Questor.
>
> I've been using PerfectDisk for the past few years. It operates in the
> background in what it calls "StealthPatrol" and does it so unobtrusively
> that I seldom even think about it. My 4 SATA HDDs (2 as a RAID 1 mirror)
> are divided into nearly 20 volumes, totaling about 1.5 TB, plus a couple
> of thumb drives. PD allows me to see each Drive Map or not, my choice,
> as well as plenty of performance and space statistics, which I rarely
> even look at. It just works.
>
> Full disclosure: As an MVP and as a beta tester, Raxco provides me a
> free copy of PerfectDisk 10. I don't even know the retail price, but
> it's worth it. ;<)
>
> RC

I'll check that one out also. Thanks.

Questor