How often u guys defrag ur HD with using BT as daily?

[chip19]

Just for those who are (or will be using) Vista, Diskeeper has announced a version, and Perfect Disk already has one out.

[silvertec]

Diskeeper 10 does it stuff every nite,keeps things nice and fast

[Addictivenyc]

Yea defragging is benefitial, i'd do it if i wasn't a lazy ass. Some times i forget but hey so far my hdd's are still kicking. maybe i should get that program u guys are talking about "diskkeep" ?

[terrorize]

never,it's still working.
if it ain't broke don't fix it

[mbucari1]

every 2 weeks. I also used diskeeper's function that allows me to increase the MFT allocation size. Things are going GREAT!

[sorcerer13]

Is it true, i've heard that fragging is hard on the harddrive?

[ubbeubbe]

I used to defrag more often. But now days my hard drives are all very close to 100% all the time. So there are no room to move files around. But when I have burned out all that I need to burn and deleted the rest...

[Chewie]

Is it true, i've heard that fragging is hard on the harddrive?

Yes, defragmenting a hard drive puts strain on the heads by thrashing them about a lot.
Consider though, that if you don't defrag, the drive heads will need to thrash about to a lesser extent almost constantly during normal use so although it's under less strain than when defragmenting they will be thrashing about far more overall.
Now consider that once a drive has been defragmented it will not constantly thrash about during normal use... and the next defrag pass will not thrash the heads about anywhere near as much as it did the first time because there's less defragmenting to do.

Bottom line: first defrag pass takes a long time and sounds very unhealthy but after that the drive operates more efficiently and subsequent defrag passes are quicker and quieter.

note: This only applies to the Windows OS. Linux has a much better file writing strategy and suffers from negligible fragmentation. I have no idea what Macs do, apart from keeping you dry in the wet.

[jeniffer]

I have o&o installed which defrag harddisk automatically when needed. So i cant tell you exactly how often i defrag my harddisk. Assume that sometimes this program runs in background from twice a day if i delete or move large files (it depends on my daily work) to once a week or a bit longer.

[mbfraser]

Maybe once every 2 months. Defragging is something that I just forget to do