COMPUTERBILD used each software program to defragment two hard disks. One 37.3 Gigabyte partition contained data often found on private PCs, including a Windows installation, numerous programs, large videos in AVI format and picture and music files. On the second hard disk (74.5 Gigabytes) were thousands of MP3 and picture files that needed to be tidied up. The test files were heavily fragmented. One of the video files was separated into 32,000 single pieces across the hard disk. Many of the MP3s were fragmented into more than 1,000 pieces too. […]

Test Result:
1st Place O&O Defrag V8.5 Professional Edition - "Editor's Choice"

Convenient scheduling, error monitoring, defragmentation of external hard disk drives, USB Sticks and memory cards. It was also the only program that displayed the estimated remaining time left for a defragmentation. […]

O&O Defrag displays the defragmentation on the hard disk before beginning to tidy up: It highlights those areas with scattered files in red. […]

The Editor’s Choice O&O Defrag V8.5 Professional Edition provides a substantial increase in speed: the loading and saving of large files, for example when editing videos, experienced a massive 50% increase in hard disk speed.

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O&O Software GmbH has been developing "Tools for Windows" since 1997. Customers include home users, SMEs, public institutions and global business groups. These tools are effectually sold directly and by using our partner network and are available in more than 50 countries. The product portfolio includes applications for performance optimization, system administration, data restoration and the secure deletion of data. O&O products have been judged as technologically leading in numerous tests. You can find more information and free trial versions of all products on our website. O&O’s products include O&O BlueCon, O&O CleverCache, O&O Defrag, O&O DiskImage, O&O DiskRecovery, O&O DiskStat, O&O DriveLED, O&O FormatRecovery, O&O MediaRecovery, O&O RescueBox, O&O SafeErase, O&O ToolBox and O&O UnErase.

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