Does frequent Defrag hurt the Harddrive durability?

[GundamF91]

I read somewhere that one benefit of partitioning is to reduce the need for frequent defrag, and frequent defragging the drive would reduce the drive integrity over time since you're increasing the the drive access which makes it work harder and more frequent.

Truth to this?

 

[LOUISSSSS]

no.. defragging hurts your hdd about as much as copying files between that drive.

 

[corkyg]

I second LOUISSSSS's statement.

 

[Rubycon]

No - as a matter of fact the drive will have to work harder when it succumbs to the effect of excessive fragmentation, particularly the paging file.

The worst torture for any HDD is excessive temperature, vibration during operation, and insufficient system memory resulting in constant requests to the paging file.

Take an emachine with Vista basic, 512MB RAM sitting in an enclosed desk and you have a recipe for hard drive oblivion. Better have a copy of Acronis True Image handy. 😉

 

[TheDubCees]

so what's the best way to keep your computer?

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: TheDubCees
so what's the best way to keep your computer?

Cool, clean, and optimized. 🙂

 

[Rottie]

or you can use it for 30 minutes a day per month.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
The worst torture for any HDD is excessive temperature, vibration during operation, and insufficient system memory resulting in constant requests to the paging file.

Google did some tests where they found out that temperature doesn't really hurt drives.

http://www.networkworld.com/ne...oogle-disk-drives.html

 

[corkyg]

Google's test was limited. They only stidued data - they did not conduct laboratory tests in proper test facilities or chambers.

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