How often do you defrag?

[rh71]

I have Norton Utilities automatically do it once a week if it detects the fragmentation rate is above 10%.

 

[dug777]

once a week

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Whenever I remember too..😱

 

[Zanix]

I defraged your mom last night.

 

[dev0lution]

Once a week...Diskeeper set it and forget it. 🙂

 

[SkyBum]

I always defrag before installing software. Maybe a bit excessive but what the hell...

 

[tm37]

I do after I go through and clean up are rearange stuff


Then I defrag them.

Usually once every two weeks or so.

Just checked and the 36Gb is @ 30% and the 160GB is @ 24%

So i Need to I will tonight

 

[Adica]

If I remember , once a week.

 

[GeekDrew]

I have never defragged the hard drive in my desktop... current install is about 9 months old.

 

[Juno]

Once or twice a year.

 

[Shawn]

Never. I just get a new hard drive.

 

[JeffCos]

Here's a better question: How many times in a row can you defrag until it doesn't do anything?

 

[tRaptor]

Originally posted by: aplefka

Originally posted by: cjgallen
When I get that "Not So Fresh" feeling.

😀

Thats when i format. Which is about every 3-6 months. Defrag? never

 

[Goosemaster]

I think Diskeeper degrags it every mornign at 4am or something...

 

[VirtualLarry]

I don't defrag any of my "main" volumes, which are all FAT32. I have a couple of NTFS volumes, to allow for > 4GB filesizes, those I simply in-place re-format if I ever feel that the MFT for those volumes has become fragmented for some odd reason. I don't see any real reason to waste time with defragmentation. I do use partitions though, and tend to keep various similar types of files together, thus reducing the occurance of fragmentation as well, as much as can be done.

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

It's so... 1995.

 

[johnjbruin]

Originally posted by: blodhi74

Originally posted by: her209
Never.

 

[ts3433]

Rarely. I'm worse than someone who has no life--I don't even have a life on the damn computer! I don't accumulate a whole lot of data, and I'm lazy about taking other precautions I should.

 

[imported_Lucifer]

I'm on a Mac. I dont need to.

 

[clamum]

About once every month or two months. I need to get Ghost and make an image of a fresh install one of these days though.

 

[eplebnista]

How often do you defrag?

Once a month.

 

[aircooled]

rarely if ever. I no longer 'feel' the difference since going all NTFS. (back in my win9x days I defragged weekly)

 

[TechHead87]

Is it bad to defrag VERY often? What are the risks?

 

[jjones]

Not too often but it's not really necessary. The way my hard drives are organized fragmentation hasn't been problematic, so about every 4 - 6 months or so. A couple of drives have never been defragged at all since the original XP install 18 months ago.

 

[dragonballgtz]

On one of my 40 GB HD I do it before I load a big game like Doom III or Far Cry. It is just one big partition.

On my 120 GB HD I do it every so often to the data logical drive. Since I have my OS on one partition, programs on another and data on its own I don't have to do it so often.