Windows 2008 Microsoft Disk Defragmenter

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Is the Disk Defrag utility built into Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 good enough?

I see lots of 3rd party defragmentation tools out there but I'm wondering if they were meant for Windows 2003 and below?

I don't have any special fragmentation problems, I use only W2k8 R2 but would like to setup a regular schedule and I'm wondering if there's any reason to spend money on a 3rd party solution.

Thanks in advance.

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I would vote for Defraggler (www.defraggler.com). It's small, easy to use and works fine for me.

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