Is it necessary to defrag your system drive once in a while?

[Seedler]

Is it necessary to defarg your system drive once in a while?

[tesco]

It will run faster if you do, when the files aren't fragmented the disk will have less work to do when it loads them, so it will load them faster.

[S!X]

Yes, its a good idea.

[clocker]

Is this a trick question?

[Seedler]

Is this a trick question?

nope, it's just that people have been saying that you should for years, but I've NEVER honestly noticed any difference after I do. And it's annoying because disk defrag takes too long.

[clocker]

Jeez, I would think with your setup that a defrag would only take a few minutes.

[Cheese]

I use Diskeeper. I have it set to Screensaver mode so it defrags whilst I'm doing other things like sleeping, sleeping at work or sleeping at uni.

[Virtualbody1234]

Is this a trick question?

It must be. Just check what he's asking:

Is it necessary to defarg your system...

[clocker]

I wondered whether anyone else saw that or if maybe my monitor(s) were overclocked too far.

[abu_has_the_power]

defrag. it really helps

i've been downloading a lot of dvdr images recently, and i have to extract them. i just defraged a few days ago, and before that, extracting a 4.5 gig image takes a lot longer than after i defrag.