Pros and Cons of Defragging hard drive.

[bfonnes]

Originally posted by: PurdueRy

Originally posted by: DLeRium

Originally posted by: PurdueRy

Originally posted by: George Powell

Originally posted by: PurdueRy
I see no cons and therefore I do it

Me too. I use diskeeper to do it. Far superior to the standard windows fare.

same here

It's not any better. They use the same engine in the end if you realize that. Moreover, using Diskeeper just slows your system down because it adds one more thing running in the background.

I used to use Diskeeper, but now it's all about optimizations so I'd rather not have a bunch of crap running. MS defrag ftw.

Edit: I defrag my Windows partition at least once a week, the Vista and Games partitions constitute another 140gb, but those rarely get touched and it's not like defragging is day and night for those partitions, and so Windows is the only one I keep well maintained.

If you defrag often, there's nothing wrong with MS utility because it shouldn't take that long. Worst case, just leave it on overnight.

I disagree. While the windows defrag tool is made by the diskeeper corp. that does not mean they are on the same level. I believe it does do the job significantly quicker but it also defrags better. I found that the windows utility would sometimes have to be run multiple times to achieve a file structure free of fragments. Not the case with Diskeeper.

My favorite feature is the boot time defrag. A feature not available in the windows version. It condenses all folders to the beginning of the file structure and defrags files that normally can't be touched due to use by windows(paging file). This helps save from future fragmentation by making more continuous portions of the hard drive open for the larger files that most often become split up into pieces.

The windows defrag works just fine... Either turn off the paging file temporarily or better yet, just don't use one.

BFonnes

 

[LOUISSSSS]

i use windows defrag about once a week on my boot drive. tried diskeeper, didn't see any difference, therefore i uninstalled it.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Originally posted by: bfonnes
The windows defrag works just fine... Either turn off the paging file temporarily or better yet, just don't use one.

Because Windows and all applications work so well with no pagefile enabled. And it's so convenient to remove it, reboot, defrag, enable it, reboot.

Of course setting it to a specific large size will prevent it from fragmenting any further, assuming you never reach the point that Windows needs more than you've specified.

There's a difference between "works just fine" and "works in a well optimized, more efficient than the basics, and provides more functionality way".