How often do you defrag your hard drives?

[LordJezo]

Just wondering...

Defragging mine for the first time in 6 months now..

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Not very...

 

[Booster]

Yeah, very rarely.

 

[pyonir]

never have. should i?

 

[CrowDog]

Maybe 2wice a month.... I burn alot tho and install/uninstall alot of games...

Is it true that defragging too much can fry a hdd?

 

[DoNotDisturb]

hardly, only when the access time is getting hella slow.

 

[thebestMAX]

Uhhhh, I build a new computer so often I dont have to.



J/k No set schedule but I doubt I exceed 2 weeks.

 

[boi]

Every 5 days. I use Diskeeper and it only takes about 25 minutes to defrag a highly fragmented drive. I download a lot of movies so thats why I use it so often.

 

[Kaervak]

Weekly. Takes about two minutes max.

 

[Mr N8]

Every 2-3 months for me. I've had 3 bad HDDs recently, though, so I can't keep them long enough to care, it seems.

 

[n0cmonkey]

I dont. I might start defragging the work machine though...

 

[abaez]

I've got diskeeper scheduled to every night at 4am

 

[308nato]

Every Sunday, right before I synch my Raid 1 array.

 

[schdaddy]

6:00am everyday by Diskeeper

 

[KeyserSoze]

This may sound like the dumbest question ever to hit ATOT, and I apologize in advance:

Does Defragging have anything at all to do with your disk life? I KNOW what defragging does, but in terms of MTTF. Any influence?







KeyserSoze

 

[Supermercado]

Usually whenever I think about it, which is normally once every two months or so.

 

[Beau]

office computer does it every weekend, after a thorough scand disk.

Home computer, maybe a couple times a month.

 

[unghole]

bout once a month, accompanied by abdominal cramps and sudden hot flashes.

 

[roncarter]

I do it once a month... boy does it feel good

 

[dullard]

I never do. I've done plenty of pre/post defrag benchmarks (on things like boot time/program load time) and have never found anywhere about a 1% difference on even the most fragged program. I'm not spending any of my time and putting any extra wear and tear on my HD for far under 1% speeds.

 

[Mrpilot007]

I use Norton System Utilities and I use Speed Disk and defrag at least once a week. Speed Disk moves the most accessed files to the front of the drive and moves all the files together. I can set it on a schedule and defrag when it gets below a set number.