SPACE Methods

The SPACE methods offer you a great solution if your volumes are very heavily fragmented. It also allows you to consolidate your data so that the amount of contiguous free space is as large as possible and further fragmentation is prevented.

The SPACE method is the best one for your initial defragmentation and for defragmentation in the background, as long as there is enough free space on the hard disk and the number of files is not too great. Otherwise, you should consider using the STEALTH method.

Algorithms

All fragmented files will be defragmented, and then placed into the free slots in which they fit. This maximizes contiguous free space. This method is very quick and efficient and it does reorganize your volume, but not as thoroughly as the COMPLETE methods.

Further defragmentation will not be affected by the SPACE method. The SPACE method is ideal for the first defragmentation run on a system that has never been defragmented, as it requires far less free space than the COMPLETE methods.

Recommended usage

The SPACE method is particularly recommended for the following systems. SPACE can also be used for regular defragmentation runs.

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For the initial defragmentation of your system.

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Computers with few available resources, as the method does not greatly increase the CPU usage and does not require much free hard disk space.

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Servers with large hard disks (e.g. more than 100 gigabytes)

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Computers with a large number of files (more than 100,000 files)