Tushman Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 Just curious to see how many people still believe in defragging their HDD on a regular basis. I run my system pretty much 24/ 7 so I defrag my system drive about once a week. Running Win 7 64-bit with My Defrag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipDoc Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 I defrag mine when it starts to show problems - every other year or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 I defrag mine when it starts to show problems - every other year or so.Braggart I degfrag once a week, old habit, with the built-in MS defrag program on WIN7 Pro 64bit, XP Pro 32bit, and Vista Business 32bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urmas Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 Defrag? Oh... that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frapper Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 Once a month, when I make my backup image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Posted May 30, 2011 Share Posted May 30, 2011 Hello,I defragment my HDD disk volumes once every two months, whether they need it or not. On SSDs I do not do anything. I am using Raxco's PerfectDisk software, which I find works quite well.Regards,Aryeh Goretsky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James M. Fisher Posted May 30, 2011 Share Posted May 30, 2011 I have O&O Defrag set to do auto defrag. Never think about it unless I do some major housecleaning of my hard drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tushman Posted May 31, 2011 Author Share Posted May 31, 2011 (edited) I have O&O Defrag set to do auto defrag. Never think about it unless I do some major housecleaning of my hard drive. It's interesting to see the responses thus far. One of the reasons why I started this poll is because I was curious to see how many people defrag on a regular basis given the current state of hardware today. Hard drives are getting more reliable, RAM is cheap, many motherboards support 4 GB+, and multi-threaded CPUs abound. So who defrags these days? I'm gonna guess it's more the computer hobbyists and people who are interested in getting the most out of their system. Of course defragging has never been about "speed" in the purest sense. But it's always given a little bit of boost along with a feel good kinda like changing the oil in your car. I really should have added another option to the poll - "WHEVER I feel like I need to". Edited May 31, 2011 by Tushman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patio Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 Weekly...before imaging.Auslogics Disk Defrag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 Hello,Many years ago, I used to run a BBS system (a computer with multiple modems that could be dialed into for forum discussions, software downloads and the like; very much the predecessor of modern web servers). On those computers, which ranged from an 80286 through a Pentium 60MHz, defragmenting the hard disk drive had a human noticeable affect on activities like reading messages and downloading files. Likewise, on 32-bit Windows systems, defragmenting files, making them contiguous and ordering them on the disk so they were located one after another improved the speed at which a computer booted up. Windows Vista (and Windows 7) seem to handle this automatically. One thing where I do see a difference is when I sync about 900GB worth of files between my desktop PC's internal data hard disk drive and an external hard disk drive on a USB 3.0 or eSATA interface. After defragmentation, the scan time to find new and changed files greatly decreases.Regards,Aryeh Goretsky It's interesting to see the responses thus far. One of the reasons why I started this poll is because I was curious to see how many people defrag on a regular basis given the current state of hardware today. Hard drives are getting more reliable, RAM is cheap, many motherboards support 4 GB+, and multi-threaded CPUs abound. So who defrags these days? I'm gonna guess it's more the computer hobbyists and people who are interested in getting the most out of their system. Of course defragging has never been about "speed" in the purest sense. But it's always given a little bit of boost along with a feel good kinda like changing the oil in your car. I really should have added another option to the poll - "WHEVER I feel like I need to". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross549 Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 It's interesting to see the responses thus far. One of the reasons why I started this poll is because I was curious to see how many people defrag on a regular basis given the current state of hardware today. Hard drives are getting more reliable, RAM is cheap, many motherboards support 4 GB+, and multi-threaded CPUs abound. So who defrags these days? I'm gonna guess it's more the computer hobbyists and people who are interested in getting the most out of their system. Of course defragging has never been about "speed" in the purest sense. But it's always given a little bit of boost along with a feel good kinda like changing the oil in your car. I really should have added another option to the poll - "WHEVER I feel like I need to". By a significant margain, the hard drive is the slowest link in the chain of everyday use on a modern computer. Look at the popularity of solid state drives- these drives double and sometimes triple the access of data compared to the legacy magnetic drive. Also, I have seen several examples of RAID setups where the machine was wicked fast. With RAM bandwidth, CPU processing power, and system bus capacity these days, the tired old magnetic hard drive is long overdue for a technology refresh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipDoc Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 ... and their prices are slowly coming down to almost affordable.These days they're only expensive, rather than usurious. Definitely a step in the right direction - though admittedly it's the same path taken by every other piece of computer hardware over the years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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