Running Scandisk Too Often?

[rodan]

I hear mixed suggestions on running scandisk and diskdefrag. On one side of the fence, I'm hearing to run scandisk often, even the "thorough", about once a week, before running diskdefrag. Others say, run scandisk only when it's needed( ie, you can't get through disk defrag), because it's hard on the drive. Still others say, you rarely need to run either, if you have a large harddisk. I would think the truth lies somewhere in the middle. What is a good suggestion, on running scandisk and diskdefrag, say, on a 40gb size harddrive, that maybe has less than 10gb of space taken, and, the computer gets average use time?

 

[olds]

I am in the same boat as you. I run it once a month.

 

[Nothinman]

It is hard on the drive, because it has moving parts and anything with moving parts is prone to failure. But not running scandisk or defragging just to go easier on the disk is like never driving your car because it'll wear on the tires.

In Windows I would defrag atleast weekly, running scandisk is just a waste of time unless you think there's a problem. But I don't run Windows often any more so these are things I don't have to worry about hardly =)

 

[corkyg]

Scandisk never runs in XP . . . but I run NSW Speed Disk about twice a week. Chkdsk is run as needed, but usually weekly. Been doing that for about 15 years through many varieties of Windows, etc., and it has never caused any problems.