Does a 15% fragmented hd partition warrant a defrag?

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Steve

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Oh, just defrag it already. Then it'll be 0% fragmented. Nothing to worry about.
 
Mo0o

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Why do you just set it when you go to bed. THis really doesn't warrant a post
 
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Do you feel a 15% frag without looking at the utility? If the answer is no, then you don't need to defrag.
 
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EyeMWing

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Uh guys, do you know how long it takes to defrag a modern HDD? The amount of time required is prohibitive to the point that I don't do it EVAR.

Although I have 6 160gb drives and a few 80's.

Each individual drive takes longer than one sleep-cycle.

And for the record, the 80's are all 100% full (a few megs remaining each, at most), and average 24% fragmentation.

Two of the 160's are 100% full and 0% fragmented (And have never been defragged)
 
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Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Uh guys, do you know how long it takes to defrag a modern HDD? The amount of time required is prohibitive to the point that I don't do it EVAR.

Although I have 6 160gb drives and a few 80's.

Each individual drive takes longer than one sleep-cycle.

And for the record, the 80's are all 100% full (a few megs remaining each, at most), and average 24% fragmentation.

Two of the 160's are 100% full and 0% fragmented (And have never been defragged)
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I think the fact that your drives are 100% full is a major factor in how long it would take to defrag them. If your drives were, say, only 30-40% full, it would probably take much less time to defrag them.

JW
 
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bandana163

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Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Uh guys, do you know how long it takes to defrag a modern HDD? The amount of time required is prohibitive to the point that I don't do it EVAR.

Although I have 6 160gb drives and a few 80's.

Each individual drive takes longer than one sleep-cycle.

And for the record, the 80's are all 100% full (a few megs remaining each, at most), and average 24% fragmentation.

Two of the 160's are 100% full and 0% fragmented (And have never been defragged)
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Agreed. Copying the contents of a drive to another and moving all the data back in one piece is much faster.
My 97% fragmented 80GB took more than a night to defrag...
 
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Injury

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Originally posted by: Vaerilis
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Uh guys, do you know how long it takes to defrag a modern HDD? The amount of time required is prohibitive to the point that I don't do it EVAR.

Although I have 6 160gb drives and a few 80's.

Each individual drive takes longer than one sleep-cycle.

And for the record, the 80's are all 100% full (a few megs remaining each, at most), and average 24% fragmentation.

Two of the 160's are 100% full and 0% fragmented (And have never been defragged)
Click to expand...

Agreed. Copying the contents of a drive to another and moving all the data back in one piece is much faster.
My 97% fragmented 80GB took more than a night to defrag...
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AFAIK, you can cancel the defrag when you wake up, with no real effect on the files and start it up again when you go to sleep the next night.

But he also said that it was only 15% fragmented, even on a full 200GB drive that could be done in 6-10 hrs.
 
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EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: JW310
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Uh guys, do you know how long it takes to defrag a modern HDD? The amount of time required is prohibitive to the point that I don't do it EVAR.

Although I have 6 160gb drives and a few 80's.

Each individual drive takes longer than one sleep-cycle.

And for the record, the 80's are all 100% full (a few megs remaining each, at most), and average 24% fragmentation.

Two of the 160's are 100% full and 0% fragmented (And have never been defragged)
Click to expand...

I think the fact that your drives are 100% full is a major factor in how long it would take to defrag them. If your drives were, say, only 30-40% full, it would probably take much less time to defrag them.

JW
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True. But then what's the point of buying a 160gb drive? I just keep one 200gb tempstore drive on the router, and once a month this box processes each of it's archival drives in turn as follows:

1) Lockdown
2) FTP to router, upload everything from that drive
3) Delete everything on drive.
4) Chkdisk
5) Download everything again.

It's one helluva scheduled task.
 
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