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.

[tesco]

It must be. Just check what he's asking:
Is it necessary to defarg your system...
thread title used to be same, I edited that.:unsure:

[Virtualbody1234]

It must be. Just check what he's asking:
thread title used to be same, I edited that.:unsure:
Good work! http://www.mcbrien.plus.com/liam/img/smilies/thmbup.gif

[Duffman]

Yes. use diskeeper, you will notice a difference.

[thewizeard]

I use diskeeper too, and apart from the defarg ..:)..function, one can also adjust the paging and MTF files....

If of course you only defrag your files occasionally, then it will take a long time. These programs enable you to choose on the fly defragmentation or, at specific times, when you are least likely to be using your computer... Defragmenting your files in a timely manner, will also save a lot of wear and tear on you hard disk or disks..... presuming of course that you have considerable numbers of files and GBs on your 250 GB hard disk.

[Seedler]

That brings up another questions:

Because I am pretty much downloading torrents 24/7, is DEFRAGING possible when you're still writing data to your HD?

[Barbarossa]

That brings up another questions:

Because I am pretty much downloading torrents 24/7, is DEFRAGING possible when you're still writing data to your HD?

Don't think so. :ermm:

[Cheese]

That brings up another questions:

Because I am pretty much downloading torrents 24/7, is DEFRAGING possible when you're still writing data to your HD?

*DEFRAGGING

[tesco]

That brings up another questions:

Because I am pretty much downloading torrents 24/7, is DEFRAGING possible when you're still writing data to your HD?
Ya, it just wont defrag what's being written.

[peat moss]

I started paying more attention to "defagging" as my wife calls it years ago when I got one of the first cd-rw's . Takes seconds on my setup using Diskeeper set and forget it .

[tesco]

OK I've sorta got some proof that defragmenting really helps.

When repairing rar files using par2's, a dvd-size collection (just under 5gb) takes about 12 mins for me if I try and repair as soonas it finsihes downloading (fragmented).

If I leave teh file on my computer until the next day, it will ave ben defragmented during teh night by diskeeper set it and forget it, and repairing only takes about 1 and a half minutes.

I've noticed this a few times and the results are consistant... :)

[Santa]

most people cannot begin to understand the simplicity of the bookshelf effect.

[clocker]

most people cannot begin to understand the simplicity of the bookshelf effect.
And I would be one of them.
WTF is the "bookshelf effect"?

[Yoga]

I've heard that fragmentation is not much of a problem on a mac or linux, is there any truth in that.

[theSpam]

I've heard that fragmentation is not much of a problem on a mac or linux, is there any truth in that.

For Linux, that's quite true. I'm sure it has something to do with the journaling feature included with most of it's filesytems.

I'm not too sure about MacOS though.