Reviews of mst Defrag Home Edition

1. 
   Undesired Username

   Reviewing 3.0 (Dec 17, 2008)

   I really like O&O, but it's too buggy for me. I like the way mst Defrag works. Simple (very simple), effective, and reasonably priced.
   
   There is a lot of room for improvement. I'd like to have more control over how background defragging is handled. And certainly better documentation.
   
   Raxco is very fond of saying that background defraggers (of which mst Defrag is the original) put undue stress on hardware and resources. That argument doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I've used mst Defrag enough to know that it doesn't make the disk churn constantly; it merely defrags files as it needs to, but only when it needs to. When you do things "the Raxco way", you end up moving files around a lot, all at one time. So, all you really do is save up the same amount of "disk churning and resource usage" to occur all at once.
2. 
   jywalt

   Reviewing 2.0 Beta 2 (Apr 5, 2007)

   I've used Diskeeper, Perfect Disk, O&O Pro; none reduce your defrag needs to a simple and effective program like this one. The cost factor if you’re a repeat customer makes total sense. I’ve had Magical Defrag and Ultimate Defrag 1.48, and found the later below expectations. I say the hype with Diskeeper and the rest of the name brands might be worth it , but mst Defrag is one of the best defrag programs dollar for dollar that’s available, it’s a gem for $9.99.
3. 
   comeoffit

   Reviewing 1.9.30.76 (Jul 30, 2006)

   I couldn't help but fall in love with mst Defrag. I love it for what it is not, even more than for what it is. By this I mean that it is not yet another stupid defrag utility that shouts idiotic-sounding gimmicks at you, like "SuperArrange Technology!" or "Max-Accel Optimization!". It skips all that meaningless crap.
   
   It also skips the part where you're required to set up defrag schedules, or come back to the computer only to find a defrag running, slowing everything down.
   
   mst Defrag won't run when your computer is running on battery power. The I/O Guard feature works; I've tested it. mst Defrag does a good job putting Windows XP boot and startup files at the front of the disk; I've tested it. And if you configure it so (i.e. MoveModifiedFilesToEnd = 1), it correctly moves recently-modified files to the end.
   
   Two points: mst Defrag isn't as good at consolidating free space as PerfectDisk is, and nor does it support offline defrags, like PerfectDisk does. But neither point matters much. For one thing, free space consolidation doesn't matter much when the defrag engine is running at all times. And on the second point, the few bits of NTFS metadata that can't be defragged online don't change much anyway, and defragging them doesn't help performance besides.
   
   Very highly recommended.
4. 
   Reposed

   Reviewing 1.9.30.76 (Jan 10, 2006)

   This is the most outstanding defragmentation program I have used.
   
   I've tried Diskeeper and O & O defraggers but found their automatic mode tended to cut in and over-utilised disk access and processor resources at inappropriate times i.e when downloading very large files. This seriouly affected download speeds.
   
   I recently used Dirms and Buzzsaw and while quite effective, this free "on the fly" defragmenter still left fragments and an occasional defragmentation was still necessary.
   
   I installed mst Defrag 10 days ago and have downloaded about 5 gigs of files, deleted about 3gigs, and installed/uninstalled a number of software. Every time I analysed my disk using Windows defrag there were no fragmented files! I'm seriously impressed. And I have not even noticed it running at all - it seems to be a very low resource user.
   
   At $16 for the home edition, I can't see any reason for not recommending it.
5. 
   precurgent

   Reviewing 1.8.30.67 (Dec 18, 2005)

   The splash screen can be disabled. Set DisableSplashScreen (DWORD) to 1. This is described in the help file. Agreed that these settings really should be accessible via GUI.

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