The impact of fragmentation

There is a good (and free) tool - CrystalDiskMark - that will show you the read and write times (aka speed) of your PC's hard drive.

Go to my free tools site and install both Smart Defrag and CrystalDiskMark.

Here is a before and after view of read/write timing for my c-drive.

The before had quite a bit of fragmentation.

The after (running Smart Defrag) had only a very few fragmented files.

This is signifcant speed improvement!

More validation for a defrag tool ... nothing better than the FREE version of Smart Defrag.