This freed up some extra space and helped speed up the PC a bit. I was able to use a third-party tool to move all the data to the beginning of the disk. The only other scenario where a third-party defrag tool worked well was with a client who had a hard drive that was almost full.
Obviously, as you can see, this is really only useful for certain specific scenarios and the time and effort spent doing all of this may not even yield any dramatic results. You could even defragment only certain files or folders instead of the entire drive if you wanted. For a drive that has a bunch of large music or video files that don’t get accessed very often, you could sort them on the disk by folder size or file size. If one drive has a lot of small files that are accessed often, you could use a third-party tool to defragment that drive so that the files are sorted by the last accessed time or creation time. For example, if you have four different hard drives installed on your PC, each containing different types of data like music, videos, operating system files, etc, then a third-party tool can let you defrag each drive in a different way. The only time I have actually seen a reason to recommend a third-party defrag tool to anyone was if the person had a complex setup on their PC with different types of data stored in different locations.
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