POLL: How often do you defragment your harddrive??

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DanTMWTMP

Lifer
Oct 7, 2001
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ahaha to some of the posts...heheh :)


neways, i defrag my main drive about once a week...but not my 120gig storage drive.....my roommate's drive's been defragging for 4 days now....and it's only 52% done...(his 120 gig that he filled up to the max and deleted stuff and added stuff and deleted stuff and added stuff...blah..)

i fear the day i defrag my 120gig...

EDIT: using norton systemworks 2002's defragger of course.... or...rather....speeddisk..
 

compudog

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Apr 25, 2001
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I have Diskeeper run every night. Fragmentation is always below 1% and I have no problems. On my storage drives (non-OS) I defrag like once a year if I have to. Windows is the cause of fragmentation.