How Often Do You Defrag?

[Bombardier]

How often do you defragment your hard drives?

Me, I'd have to say about once a month.

I really should do that more often, since I move data back and forth a lot.

My hard drives just seem to slow down if I haven't defragmented them for a while.

[jipper]

this is reading at a very high position on teh geek-o-metre..ya big geek

but yeah, once a month

[method77]

several times a day? Who does that?

[Bombardier]

several times a day? Who does that?

People who are obsessed with their hard drive speed.

lol. :D

[jipper]

level 56 uber irc hax0r g33ks do

[rainbowdemon]

Once or twice a week seems to be enough. I have 3 hard drives, so it takes a little while!!

[MoonMan]

I have been meaning to defrag lately but it's such a pain in the ass.

First you have to wait 8 hours for scan disk to finish (in safe mode), then you have to defrag for another 8 (at least). It's really really REALLY time consuming.

[Bombardier]

I have been meaning to defrag lately but it's such a pain in the ass.

First you have to wait 8 hours for scan disk to finish (in safe mode), then you have to defrag for another 8 (at least). It's really really REALLY time consuming.

Yep,

That's one of the reasons I don't defrag that often. Even with the most efficent defragmentation utilities, it seems to take forever.

I usually do my defragmentation at night while I sleep.

[Umma]

I have the thing sheduled to defrag a couple of times a week...overnight.... so I have no idea how long it takes... cant think of anything more dull than watching a hard drive defrag....

[jipper]

watching downloads..download

[rainbowdemon]

Try Diskeeper. It's a whole lot faster!!

http://www.diskeeper.com/coverpage.asp

[cjules13]

About once a month - The built in XP defragger can get through the muck on my 40GB drive in about 1-2 hours! Not that long.

I haven't defragged my external 120GB though ever - I'm scared to.

[Bombardier]

Try Diskeeper. It's a whole lot faster!!

http://www.diskeeper.com/coverpage.asp

I do ;)

[Wolfie]

This reminds me I am due for one.

[rainbowdemon]

Try Diskeeper. It's a whole lot faster!!

http://www.diskeeper.com/coverpage.asp

I do ;)

Why does it take so long then? I use Diskeeper and it is a lot faster than that. But I don't defrag in safe mode. I have 3 hard drives. 100, 80 and 40gb. I can defrag all 3 of them in an hour or so.

[method77]

drives defrag way faster if they contain movies or mp3s only

[Bombardier]

Try Diskeeper. It's a whole lot faster!!

http://www.diskeeper.com/coverpage.asp

I do ;)

Why does it take so long then? I use Diskeeper and it is a lot faster than that. But I don't defrag in safe mode. I have 3 hard drives. 100, 80 and 40gb. I can defrag all 3 of them in an hour or so.

I guess my hard drives are nearly full and are slow.

When I say "slow", I mean that they are old and have low a RPM.

Mine are like 3600 RPM hard drive or something like that.

[CTC Command]

I try to defrag when I'm not going to be home or when I'm sleeping. It seems that the more often I do it the less time it takes. On my 'dedicated' music production machine (aptly named CTC Command) I have to run defrag before working with some of the larger Acid files, or it just seizes up on me. Learned from experience to defrag often! :bonk

[Redneck4sure]

I defrag evertime I leave the gun range. I hate shootin metal targets cause you always get fragged. :psychofun:

[Bombardier]

I defrag evertime I leave the gun range. I hate shootin metal targets cause you always get fragged. :psychofun:

[nate]

never

Edited May 27, 2004 by nate

[Redneck4sure]

Bombardier, I knew you, Wolfie, Rob and a couple of others would know what I am talkin about.

I have found it faster reformat the drive and reload the data. (except C drive)

[moonglow]

:) :) :) Thanks for reminding me :) :) :)

[The Hunter]

I run a very small C drive, and download to that. Once the downloads are done, i transfer them to my D drive defragging them in the process, hence i dont have to defrag my larger drive unless im really trying to muck things up. My C drive gets done whenever it needs it, which is not very often as it doesnt have much on it.

[Redneck4sure]

That's what I do too, Hunter. Use C to d/l, correct file names and ID3 tags, rip and so on. Then copy to another drive. The other drives rarely need defrag. C drive will defrag in 35 min.