Mo
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should u defragment your pc or not?
heard stories from both sides 
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Doug
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Yeah why not, go crazy.
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Deadude
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yeah just leave it on overnight or something
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drax
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Diskeeper
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richardworrall
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quote:
Originally posted by drax
Diskeeper
what he said.
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Mo
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diskeeper? whats that?
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Tim
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It's the full blown version of the defragmenter bundled with Windows. Has some nice features such as defrag scheduling, etc...
I'd be interested to know the "stories from both sides" -- file-system fragmentation is never a good thing 
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Dom
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Perfectdisk - is one pass defrager, Diskeeper is a multi-pass defrager. Thats the basic outline of the two main defraging software out there.
A decent thread > HERE < about both defragers, with engineers from both camps replying.
But yea, you should degfrag - how often really depends on how much you thrash your drive. If you give your drives a good beating day in day out (video editing etc) then once a month is ideal. Otherwise, once every 3 months (if that) is probably ok if you're just browsing and email surfing etc
Only bad stories i've heard with defraging is during the pre-XP days with drives randomly dying during a defrag, or with raid 0/1 setups with it causing problems with the array. But not so much now
[Edited on 09-10-2007 by Dom]
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Mo
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well i don't really thrash my dive. just some photo editting, surfing and general office applications.
stories from both side would include HDD going a bit AWOL on the other hand files are put in order
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drax
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De fragmentation will speed up the use of your drive, stop hard disk thrashing, index's your files, you can align large chunks of data in certain order to gain more performance from the hard drive, reducing the time it takes to write, rewrite and relocate files.
Do it, the only people that will suffer from using defraging are those with hard drives already on their way out.
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Jules
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I use Diskeeper and it takes seconds - I'm never convinced that it's actually done anything - or maybe I'm being a retard and doing it wrong!
Either way, meh
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Daniel_Corsa
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Fine just don't go doing it to often.
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