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Does defragging your HD really boost speed?

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mazeroth

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I constantly create, erase, move, etc. files on my HD so I'm sure they're spread out EVERYWHERE on my HD. Will performing a defrag on my drive really boost HD speed? It seems a bit sluggish at the moment.

Also, any chance I could lose data doing a defrag? I'm sure there's a 0.00001% chance it will happen, but if it's possible I'm going to backup some stuff first.

Thanks!
 
You should always have a backup, and constant moving of big files will cause fragmentation. So a defrag. will really help you.
 
I usually defrag my main HDDs usually once a week. I notice that seek times are faster and boot/shutdown times too. It's a matter of habit and I run it in the background while I'm working.
 
Like the others said...defrag it. Even when the defragmenter says that it isn't necessary, defrag it once a week...unless you only use your computer once a year.
 
Along with what the others have said, defrag is a good idea. Computers are like a lazy secretary, alot of the time they just put files where they feel like it. Or that is what I have been told atleast. 🙂
 
It doesn't boost speed. That's impossible. If a large portion of your volume gets fragmented and the data residing there is frequently accessed, it may slow your requests down.

95% of the machines, however have MFT's that are completely used up and correcting this supposedly improves performance.
 
It's not going to improve performance but restore it 😉

At least run chkdsk for each volume first (chkdsk c: /f /r).

After-market software can additionally defrag the MFT, registry and pagefile. Some can expand the MFT too.

I use partitions and diff'rent defrag methods to both minimize fragmentation and maximize performance. Notably, the OS and programs volume seperate from bulk storage with the former organized by name and the latter by date modified.
 
I use PerfectDisk 8.0 to do all my defrags once a week. It's always a good idea to defrag for your HD overall health. I maybe worng, but I thought I read an article that it does speed up your read/seek times.
 
Technically, a defrag doesn't boost speed. It just brings your computer back up to peak levels by reducing the number of rotations of the hard drive required before the OS kind find all the data it needs.
 
Originally posted by: John
Originally posted by: Seekermeister
How do you control the size of the MFTs?
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I use Diskeeper Pro v10 to pad the MFT size and schedule defrag jobs. By default, 12.5% of the disk is reserved for MFT use.

How NTFS Reserves Space for its Master File Table (MFT)
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Yes DK padding is the way we do it. They have diskeeper enterprise running on one of the servers and there's a policy that runs the diskeeper engine whenever the screen saver starts. Keeps things running well. 🙂
 
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