POLL: How often do you defrag your HDD?

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nortexoid

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May 1, 2000
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i NEVER defrag my hdd, because...

1) i never notice any significant slowdown in hdd performance over any given duration of hdd use.
2) defragging takes FOREVER, especially with larger capacity drives...i have 28GB work of data, defragging it takes too long
3) defragging works the crap outta your hdd while giving little disk performance in exchange.

please, disagree with me.
 

heng1028

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Oct 16, 2000
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i defrag my hd whenever i clean my internet history or cookies. I usually do this at the same time since norton system works has everything
 

CrazyBob

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Jan 1, 2001
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My idiot computer teacher bill bearly used to defrag school PC's twice a day - he killed 3 20 GB hd's by the end of the year - what an idiot.