Defragmenting Daily

[tweakmm]

I am running win2k, and whenever I run the defrag utility(which is almost daily) It tells me that I should degfrag. Is this normal?

 

[Perc]

depends... do u install / download/ erase a lot? if u do well yea... like everything u collect on the internet, well it caches it and if u erase the cache it leaves your hard drive pretty well fragmented.

 

[Dreadogg]

you are the defragmenting king ! LOL

 

[JoPalm]

Mine never tells me to defrag, well once like a couple a months ago. I still do it wheather it tells me or not.

 

[LilScoooters]

I defrag every day... just call me anal....

 

[TRDsupra]

i defrag 3 times a day.

 

[TunaBoo]

3 times a day will kill your HD in the long run


Do you have indexing/journaling or whatever they call it these days enabled? With it and NTFS, I can easily go 3 months on a primary drive and 1 year on a storage.

 

[LilScoooters]

TUNA ...I hear what your saying... But I have been defraging my Fax Server with a Quantum Fireball HD 6.4gb for 2 years now..
without one problem ..... ' I just wish modern drives would stay together as my Quantum has...)

 

[DanJ]

Yea...defragging that much will destroy your hard drive. So much strain during defrags.

People think defrags are the end-all be-all of system tuning. They're really not that great. Once a month would be fine.

 

[bacillus]

<< i defrag 3 times a day. >>


why??
btw welcome to the forums!

 

[agentK]

3 times a day?! why!? besides wasting time, your making your HD do extra work for negligible performance upgrade. once or twice a month is enough.

 

[rbV5]

<< But I have been defraging my Fax Server with a Quantum Fireball HD 6.4gb for 2 years now..without one problem >>



shouldn't take that long, looks like you got a problem.

 

[agentK]

nice one rbV5! LOL

 

[Fjive]

i defrag once every 6-10 days...this should be ok i think...

 

[Budman]

I also defrag everyday & never had a problem.Do it once a day & it takes minutes,do it every months & it takes much longer.

 

[tweakmm]

Well... I use morpheus and edonky2000 everyday, so yes, I use alot of file sharing apps. What kind of preformance hit will I see if i enable indexing?

 

[ukDave]

isnt indexing good? does it slow things down?

 

[Sugadaddy]

Here's an idea for you obsessed defraggers (no, it's not Defraggers Anonymous...):

NTFS

 

[NOS440]

I defrag about once a month and it takes about 15 minutes on my 5 partition's of 60 gigs total.

 

[downhiller80]

I defrag every 3-6 months

I'm too worried that 8 hours of constant reading and writing will kill my hard disk.

- seb

 

[CraigRT]

My god you defragging freaks are insane!!
after 1 month it still says drive is only less than 5-10% fragmented..

I usually defrag every month or so...

 

[majewski9]

Maybe you should get Norton speed disk in the Norton utilities pack! That is much more thorough than Defrag!