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  • Neal-UK
    Senior Member
    • Feb 2004
    • 935
    • 5.6.4

    Disk Defragmenter

    How often do you defrag your HD for your computer? I try to do one at least once a month unless i've done some big installs and removals.
    39
    Once a Day
    5.13%
    2
    Once a Week
    12.82%
    5
    Once a Month
    28.21%
    11
    Once every 6 Months
    17.95%
    7
    Once a Year
    5.13%
    2
    More
    0.00%
    0
    Less
    10.26%
    4
    Spoons Please Terry?
    20.51%
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  • Joe Gronlund
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2001
    • 5789
    • 3.8.x

    #2
    System drives - Once a week
    Backup drivers - Once a month
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    • rellek
      Senior Member
      • Apr 2002
      • 198
      • 3.8.x

      #3
      When I'm really bored.
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      Please excuse my bad English.

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      • Wayne Luke
        vBulletin Technical Support Lead
        • Aug 2000
        • 73976

        #4
        Don't really think about it. Can't remember the last time.
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        • simsim
          Senior Member
          • Nov 2005
          • 1625
          • 3.6.x

          #5
          Just when I read this thread! Been the last time a year or two ago.

          I have 2 hard drives with 6 overall partitions. Only the C partition needed defragement. (Grrr Firefox didn't recognize the word so I'm not sure of the spelling)
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          • Quillz
            Senior Member
            • Nov 2004
            • 2787
            • 5.0.X

            #6
            I only defrag the hard drives that run Windows, and I usually do that once a month, sometimes less.
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            • Jose Amaral Rego
              Senior Member
              • Feb 2005
              • 11058
              • 1.1.x

              #7
              I defrag every month and for some reason I also zero my Hard Drive right after? Just a habit I guess, it takes 12 hours to do thou.

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              • KeithMcL
                Senior Member
                • Jun 2000
                • 621
                • 3.6.x

                #8
                Whenever I remember to.

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                • Gladius
                  Senior Member
                  • Dec 2002
                  • 927
                  • 3.8.x

                  #9
                  Same as Wayne... I think the excessive defragmenting is a phase for most people. I know I was obsessed with doing it like once every (other) week about 10-15 years ago, but hardly ever since. Of course, back then defragging still made noticeable difference and recovered precious space, unlike now. I don't think I've defragged this box since I've bought it over a year ago. No need really, everything's running just fine. And it's not even fragmented that much despite my moving quite a lot of files around.
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                  • Sergio68
                    Senior Member
                    • May 2002
                    • 817
                    • 6.0.X

                    #10
                    Never becouse I do not use Windows.
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                    • filburt1
                      Senior Member
                      • Feb 2002
                      • 6606

                      #11
                      Originally posted by rellek
                      When I'm really bored.
                      +1. On today's computers, it doesn't really do anything noticable.
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                      • rellek
                        Senior Member
                        • Apr 2002
                        • 198
                        • 3.8.x

                        #12
                        Originally posted by filburt1
                        +1. On today's computers, it doesn't really do anything noticable.
                        Not only this.... Imagine you have a 320GB harddisk, which is filled 100 GB. Where should a fragmentation come from?
                        Meow!

                        Please excuse my bad English.

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                        • Yves R.
                          vBulletin QA
                          • Nov 2003
                          • 3855
                          • 5.6.X

                          #13
                          Can't remember when I don't have defrag my HDDs (I'll see now for defrag my 250GB HD and my WinXP partition (27 / 46GB used, this partition needs to be defrag))

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                          • WurkAnimal
                            Senior Member
                            • Aug 2005
                            • 2538
                            • 3.5.x

                            #14
                            I hardly ever, although if I do it's like once every 6 Months!

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                            • Wayne Luke
                              vBulletin Technical Support Lead
                              • Aug 2000
                              • 73976

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Sergio68
                              Never becouse I do not use Windows.
                              Isn't even needed on Windows based computers unless you're using FAT16/32 still. On NTFS, like all journaled file systems, there is no practical benefit to defragging a drive.

                              Even if you needed to, its a lot more time efficient to zero out the drive through formatting and slamming it with your operating system off DVD images. Especially when you get over 100 GB drives.
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                              Wayne Luke
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