man that to cool
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ditto brodi's

 

Most people don't know it including myself until a while ago, let's spreadthe message because it's a cool feature.

Well, not that neater because I don't use programs like WinMount. When I want to pack/compress but still be able to read/mount I use the .isz format (iso with compression and password) using UltraIso (portable version ). For rar'ed files I just decompress them. If they're for instance installers I decompress to the SSD drive. Edited: I decompress to another drive, if it's something really demanding to the SSD, if not another HDD.

Yeah, it's a great tool, I don't use it but I tested it along with Diskeeper. I do use it on my laptop (diskeeper because it's better for raw performance, but perfectdisk is better to prevent fragmentation)

There's another trick I forgot. For Kontakt samples I use the inNKX extension for the "Total Commander" alternative file explorer tool. Problem: it's a pain in the ass to install (russian, of course). But once you install it you can convert multiple .ncw files to one .nkx container deadly easily. You can also extract them, but for that the same Kontakt does the job.
Many small Kontakt sample files on HDD problem solved, and plus you feel like a "pro" having your self-made nkx files . I'm even pondering to post in AZ a "ready to go" version with the plugin installed, because it's a shame it's so hard to install and very few people use it.

The safer thing (talking about possible disk failures and in general data corruption) comes with the 3% recovery record on rar files.
The good thing of password protected rar files (and isz ones) besides the obvious is that antivirus scanning goes a lot faster simply because they can't scan them (Edited: defragmenting too, of course). At the same time virus can't infect 'em. But my computer habits are a bit extreme when it comes to security, in both ways. I talked about them in that thread (Win10?) that @SineWave talked about. Not for everyone.

 

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No. I don't like to use big software like that. Symantec like. For defragging I've been using JKDefrag for ages. It's the fastest there is and you can make it defrag files any way you like easily.

I have tried all the Windows defraggers years ago, along with the PerfectDisk. It's certainly one of the best. If I remember correctly, Windows defragmenter is based upon it.

JKdefrag also uses Windows defragmenter. It's like a shell for it, but it does better work, and has many more options.

Cheers!

 

Both PerfectDisk and Diskeeper are more about preventing fragmentation than defragmenters.

I use Auslogics defragmenter. It's the tweaker paradise. To the point I learned many things using it, being already a veteran geek.

 

That reminded me that the Windows defragmenter is actually based on Diskeeper. Just far more rudimentary, MS style.

 

I'm selling some time-shares in Florida btw if anybody is interested.

 

Good discussion, gents. Geek-factor 10... love it!

 

did i use before

i did use it straight from start when external was new...i never had a disk fully green imaged like with perfect disk..
last time after copyd a lot i did use it again,..it didnt defrag just optimize 30 hours or so..

but

and jkdefrag would be my other go to's heh heh

but i guess no program can defrag 100% when using defraggler to late

 

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I took a look at JKDefrag site, it really seems very good. In fact several of the things I learned with Auslogics Defrag are there.

How did you figure the geek thing?? Just joking, cheers lol

 

I thought of just using my disk backup application Aomei Backupper (like TrueImage) to backup folders and then mount then. With this you can have the backup, read-only/already-defragged advantages. You can also compress or not. And you can also use password.
But I don't like the idea of a proprietary format for "small" things.

 

The thing with VHDs is that, though you can probably make them read-only, they're designed not only to behave like real HDDs but to grow if it's required. That kind of defeats the purpose for me. What I mean is a read-only archive (iso, rar, Trueimage style backup) is already defragmented or you can easily made it that way. They're read only so you can't write to them with the consequent probably fragmentation.

The other reason is similar in practice: having a lot of small files is very bad for HDDs performance. Keeping them in a larger iso/rar/backup makes much faster, for instance , to copy the iso to another place. Makes defragmentation, of course, much faster.

The case of Kontakt libs is very suited for this. After you've resaved and whatever you only want it to read, so you can put a lib with thousands of sample .ncw files in an iso/rar/etc.

Besides the obvious case of backup files, having big but not very big files (like a 12GB library in an iso or whatever) makes them easier to backup. You can also make split multi-part rar files or the same backups. Not suited for speed, like a kontakt lib, but still valid for say big apps installers.