PassMark Fragger

Disk defragmentation is an important process and shouldn’t be ignored of you want to maintain your hard drive at decent speeds. PassMark Fragger is a lightweight utility that lets you defragment and also fragment files by letting you choose the settings.

The interface is limited to a single windows that encapsulates all the necessary tools for frag/defrag sessions. To start a process, load up a file and analyze it; the app will tell you if the file can be fragmented or defragmented. Keep in mind that unaffected files are going to be available for fragmentation only.

Moving down, you can notice all the fragmentation settings and estimation graphs that offer all the information when a file is in work. The UI resembles the integrated Windows defragmenter but with full access to its tools.

As we already know, defragmentation gets all the scattered files and concentrate them to a single location, so why to fragment them then? This option can come in handy for users that want to test the speed of their drives when a file or more are fragmented. In short, if you have to observe the behavior of affected drives, split them up and perform your tests.

Besides the obvious, PassMark Fragger lets you manipulate the number and size of the fragments, choose the location of fragments on disk, fragment files without taking up extra space, view file information, graphical checkpoints and cluster allocation and generates and text file with cluster information.

To sum it up, PassMark Fragger is a smart tool that lets you defragment you files in a controlled environment and on the top of that, it lets you fragment healthy files while it provides access to a good number of fragmentation settings. It’s simple overall process allows even the most inexperienced users to successfully operate it.