DieRuhe: For the heck of it, I analyzed it again today and it said there's 235 fragmented files.
Is it normal for a drive to accumulate frag so quickly? Is there some other way I can check to make sure nothing's wrong?
I don't like the current (well, Vista) Windows degragger because it doesn't give you any information on number of files or percentage or anything, so if I run it I have no idea what it's actually doing - which is why I decided to try Auslogics. I also tried Avast!, but good lord that was slow.
Some files will always remain fragmented due to various technical reasons. This is normal and expected, not something you need a third-party tool to "fix", and also why Microsoft moved to displaying a vague percentage; the fragmentation state of specific files is no longer important due to various OS improvements.
In Windows 7 and 8 the defragmenter was upgraded to give a percentage and the ability to start/stop the processing of individual drives on demand.
timppu: I think Windows 8 introduced some new file system on top of existing NTFS (ReFS?), but was it relevant only for certain (server) Win8 editions? Just wondering whether defrag utility developers are now in a hurry to add support for ReFS?
ReFS is only in the Server versions (for now) where third-party tools are unlikely to be used, so this is probably a low priority for them.