Hey, does the defragmentation proces afect the HardDrive?,
even in long term?
I just heard that, but I donīt believe it.
Is it true or not?
Hey, does the defragmentation proces afect the HardDrive?,
even in long term?
I just heard that, but I donīt believe it.
Is it true or not?
it rearanges the data on your HDD, so yes, it effect it, but not more than normal reading/writing..........
and physically your hard drive doesnt gain anything from it (except that you'll be stressing it less since your OS has easier access to it)
yea but as it rearragnes files isnt that stressing the hard drive?
my computer always need a good 10hour defrag session
and man it gets VERY hot
I defrag every night, it stops all those long defrag sessions. If your disk is getting very hot you should have a disk cooler.
I also use Diskeeper Pro, rather than the crappy offerings from Microsoft and Symantec.
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Yea, I defrag. like every two weeks,
and it only takes an hour at most.
ya if you defrag often it could actually be helping the drive because it will have an easier time reading the files.
The more often you do it, the less time it takes to defrag as well.
Originally Posted by rossco_2004
Yep ,I have my Diskeeper on screen saver mode . It defrags while I'm away from my computer. @ Fiber If your computer takes 10 hours, a program like Diskeeper would help. Takes me less than 20 seconds.
Link: https://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/showthread.php?t=82741
You shouldn't need to defrag a lot but you can also reduce fragmentation other ways:
Create a seperate partition for swap and the temp folder
Get disk partitioning software (you know where to get this)
Move the swap file before moving the temp folder
Set the swap file to a fixed size
Dont use a browser cache
Are they really necessary any more?
In IE set it to as low as possible
In Mozilla set the size to 0kb
In Bittorrent allocate and zero on creation
As soon as you start a DL it created the file and puts zeroes in it
This reduces fragmentation
Azureus can do this. So can many other BT clients
Defrag before you start a big download
I do all of the above. The only things on my system which really end up fragmented are log files which are a couple of kilobytes. These aren't exactly thrashing the disk. You probably know all this anyway but there are people who don't.
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