You seem to be ready for Hyrbid and Solid State drives.
Bob
Hi folks,
I've been buying computers from a company that custom builds them for trading the stock market. Optimal performance is required. With the XP operating system, this company included a good defrag program called Perfect Disk. However, with computers shipped with Windows 7, they're no longer including Perfect Disk, saying that it's no longer necessary because the new defrag program on Windows 7 is good enough. Personally, I think they're just trying to save money by not having to buy a license for Perfect Disk for every computer they ship. I just did a defrag on my new Windows 7 computer using Microsoft's in house defrag, and it took about five minutes to run. This computer should have been quite fragmented, so my suspicion is that (once again), Microsoft's defrag program isn't very good. Even for minor fragmentation, Perfect Disk, or even my older preference, Norton's speed disk, would take considerably longer (suggesting to me that these programs were more thorough).
Anyway, please somebody give me the lowdown on Microsoft's native defrag program on Windows 7--is it nearly as good as the independent programs like Perfect Disk or Speed Disk which are designed for this job?
Thanks, Tasuki

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