SmartDefrag is a free hard drive defragmentation tool from IObit for Windows. It is designed to simplify and automate the defragmenting process with very little system resource utilization.
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As we have mentioned before, this time around we will review another freeware from IObit. Just like the GameBooster we previously reviewed, this tool may also be integrated into Advanced SystemCare and can be launched from within that software's interface.
From our test on a 'cute' Intel Atom 330 powered PC, it turned out that SmartDefrag is quite fast, around 20-25% faster than Windows' built-in defragmentation utility. We did not compare SmartDefrag with other tools because we are already satisfied enough with its performance.
The program's interface, as you can see from the image above is pretty simple and everything can be figured out right away. There are 3 optimization options to start with, namely Defrag Only, Fast Optimize and Deep Optimize. We have to admit that even with the Deep Optimize option, SmartDefrag did not turn us down with its speed.
The auto defrag feature works wonderful too. Even when running at the background it only use roughly 1MB of system memory, leaving you a lot of memory for your games applications. The best of all is you can tune when it should kick in to do the auto defrag, for instance when the PC is idle or CPU utilization is below certain percentage. Very convenient.
Our only complain about this software is it can't defragment any USB flash drives, which is very surprising, considering all other tools we have tried before offer this feature. This may not be a big deal for many but for us here who have USB flash drives with the capacity of 8GB and more, this is really important, especially we tend to store our mp3s inside them.
The absence of USB flash drive defragmentation feature may be disappointing to us but for those who don't mind about it, we don't hesitate to recommend you this utility for its speed and the auto defrag feature.
Download IObit SmartDefrag here:
http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html#
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