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

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

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.

Yes, its a good idea.

Is this a trick question?

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Originally Posted by clocker

Is this a trick question?

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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.

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

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.

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Originally Posted by clocker

Is this a trick question?

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

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Is it necessary to defarg your system...

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

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.