How Often do you Defrag your Hard disk?

Discussion in 'General Hardware' started by zy, Jun 5, 2005.

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How Often Do You Defrag?

  1. Everyday!

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  2. Everyweek

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  3. Every FortNight

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  4. Every Month & More

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  5. Never

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  6. Whats Defrag ?

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  1. MooCow

    MooCow Newbie

    personally i think defragging is only necessary when your system becomes noticably slower.
     
  2. ESP

    ESP Newbie

    Come on, man. We weren't making fun of him/her. We were just joking. It's just like how we always make fun of one another. Ok? ;)
     
  3. zy

    zy zynine.com Staff Member

    ok .. so .. hmm .. since my C:\ is partially fragmented .. & d:\ is totally fragmented

    j:| is 90% clean

    so i dediced to free up J:\\ defrag as much as possible .. then free up C:\ defrag as much as possible.. lastlt freeup D:\ defrag as much as possible
     
  4. -seek-

    -seek- Newbie

    You guys so should be ashamed of yourselves! You come to this web site and only defrag you comp once a year?! :shock:

    I do it about once a month to both of my maxtors.
     
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    -seek- Newbie

  6. Knight

    Knight Newbie

    defragging is for loosers. Burn that hard disk to a crisp and let it take a year to find stuff, thats my moto.
     
  7. Ishtim

    Ishtim Super Moderator

    Imagint defrag time on the Seagate 400GB :shock: :shock: :shock:

    Here is mine....Diskkeeper of course... 88% of 80 Gig FREE...

    You guys just keep too much *ahem* :wicked:
     

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  8. Viper007Bond

    Viper007Bond Newbie

    Well, mine is mostly defragged, so it doesn't take too long. :thumb:
     
  9. kayFX

    kayFX Newbie

    here is mine and my perfect disk..
    when you said *ahem*, i remember the thread i read that someone called it the 'pink folder'.. i dont remember who.. :think:
     

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  10. zy

    zy zynine.com Staff Member

    pink folder belongs dash :shifty: now he has a pink hard disk :shifty:

    anyway .. i'm still having trouble defraging my D:\

    23% free space on the 76gb partition

    but .. wow .. its too fragmented to be defrag :wal:
     
  11. zy

    zy zynine.com Staff Member

    wow. . look .. great improvement :)

    after defrag-ing the least fragment drives.. & move as much files from D:\ to them


    after 2 hours of continous defrag-ing

    this is the result...
     

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  12. acedriver

    acedriver Just Started

    2 hours? that's slow.. I mean the defragger..
     
  13. zy

    zy zynine.com Staff Member

  14. ESP

    ESP Newbie

  15. GarPhreak

    GarPhreak Newbie

    Can't really vote since it's not like I have a defrag schedule... :whistle:

    Basically whenever I create/delete large files, and/or when my sytem is running slow...

    Now that there's so little space left on my hard-disk, it's a real pain since I have to keep at least 15% free in order to run Windows Defragmenter... :wall:

    Well, IMO regular defragmenting would keep your file fragments nice and neat [organized?], and help keep future defragmenting times to a minimum... At least I like to think so... But then of course I could be wrong... :roll: :whistle:

    Looks like you need an introduction to Dashken!

    Scroll down the page and you can see the pink folder for yourself! :thumb:
     
    Last edited: Jun 8, 2005
  16. onclejean

    onclejean Newbie

    Defrag Frequency

    I defrag my system disk (75 GB SATA Barracuda) twice daily and other disks when they are more than 5% fragmented. I use Perfect disk which reports what files are fragmented and this is valuable in pointing to junk and dump files often quite large. With the frequent defragmentation it only takes about 4 minutes running in the background. Makes a big performance improvement :pray:
     
  17. GarPhreak

    GarPhreak Newbie

    Twice a day seems like overkill tho'... :eh:

    But whatever works for you... :lol:
     
  18. ESP

    ESP Newbie

    :lol: Twice a day? What's more, defragmenting when they are just only more than 5% fragmented. :haha:

    Oops. :p :shifty:
     
  19. darkmage12

    darkmage12 Newbie

    omg why do u need to do it twice a day? it could kill your hard disk if i not mistaken
     
  20. Ject

    Ject Newbie

    It is recommened only ONCE hences the ONCE part? Once a Month. It doesn't need defragged more then that unless you like install Ofice, uninstall 3 games, reinstall office then install soemthing else, and maybe remove another programs and then go ahead and install somehting like adobe photoshop... then you shoudl defrag it after all that and count it as your monthly defrag.

    With NTFS, you don't need to defrag as much as you did with FAT16/32
     

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