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Pros and Cons of Defragging hard drive.

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Moffat Cafe

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Has any one ever had any problems after defragmentation. Any real gains? I seem to remember PC World magazine saying that it was absolutely not needed.
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Defragmenting your hard drive may speed it up slighty and probably rarely needs it. It is a good idea to scan your drive for errors and bad sectors occaisionally or you good be looking in the Hot Deals forum for a new drive.
 
Originally posted by: CrookedRain
Defragmenting with Diskeeper 10 makes a big difference.
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I don't know if I would endorse any product over another, but defragging does help. I've spent ten years working in a corporate environment with thousands of computers, and I've seen cases where PCs were having serious performance problems and/or unexplained errors that went away completely after defragging the harddrive.

I recommend to all the people I support that they run defrag once a month, even on their home PC.

Glendor...
 
For XP users, just set it as an automated scheduled task for once a month

command line will prob be

c:\windows\system32\defrag c:


use a local account with a password that doesn't change (like the local admin).



Unlike diskdeeper, this method will not load a another service or app on bootup.... I have diskkeeper10 on my system at work, but the process DkService.exe takes 19mb of ram.....and doesn't do anything except run the scheudled "smart defrag" every few days...


you can also just create a shortcut on your desktop that you can click on "defrag c:" is all you need..... or click "Start" then "Run" and type in defrag c:




 
Originally posted by: Glendor
Originally posted by: CrookedRain
Defragmenting with Diskeeper 10 makes a big difference.
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I don't know if I would endorse any product over another, but defragging does help. I've spent ten years working in a corporate environment with thousands of computers, and I've seen cases where PCs were having serious performance problems and/or unexplained errors that went away completely after defragging the harddrive.

I recommend to all the people I support that they run defrag once a month, even on their home PC.

Glendor...
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Agreed. Try and run the stock defragger once a month and if it doesn't find much over 5-10% frags and no noticable speed increase then let it slide to every 3-6 months. Your grandmas PC may not even need it but once a yr. PC nut jobs like many of us here could easily get a perf bump by doing it every month or after a particularly crazy installfest. And btw I tried diskkeeper and saw no dif in the usable quality of the defrag. I did find annoying popups and extra cpu wasting services though and it still couldn't defrag my nightmare of a download disk. Nothing worse than torrents. Run the report and see. I even went to 32k block sizes eventually. While diskeeper wasted time trying to fix the 3 frags in a 600 mb file it would never even get to my 2 gig 2000 fragment file. The one I was worried about because I wanted to burn it. Later I bought a benq burner and then I didn't need to even worry about the fragments anymore. The fragments are gone when I backup to the benq then delete the file. Prob solved.
 
It is a good idea to scan your drive for errors and bad sectors occaisionally or you good be looking in the Hot Deals forum for a new drive.
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Not really, just make sure you have some software to run SMART tests perodically.

I don't know if I would endorse any product over another, but defragging does help. I've spent ten years working in a corporate environment with thousands of computers, and I've seen cases where PCs were having serious performance problems and/or unexplained errors that went away completely after defragging the harddrive.
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Sadly that does seem to be the consensus with Windows even though it makes no sense at all. I never defrag any of my Linux machines and the performance never goes down in a noticable fashion, but if you leave a Windows box sit for a few months you'll be crying.

Nothing worse than torrents.
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So find a torrent client that will preallocate all of the space.
 
Originally posted by: AMDUALY
PerfectDisk FTW, WiinASO registry cleaner and my system stays nice and peppy
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I'll drink to that! There is more to the story than simply defragmentation. There is also optimization. Combining the two is the best way to go, and it does keep drives happy and healthy. Been doing it for over 20 years! Never had a drive failure.
 
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