Heavily OT: A small unscientific poll...

[Valgua]

I defrag once a week and it takes me no more than ten minutes.

Filippo

[tsimmonds]

I do disk cleanup followed by disk defrag every week. Takes 30 minutes max. . I stomp spyware and delete temporary internet files every day.

[ckk]

thanx for reminding me . its been weeks

[06 Maestro]

It really depends on how much a machine gets used, including installing and un-instaling programs. I normally don't let my pc's go over 15% fragmentation. Even if the XP anylizer says that a defragment is not needed, I do it anyway. This means that each pc gets a defrag every 1 week to 1 month.

I don't know if this is still an issue, but on older OS's the system itself would fragment-and would NOT defrag. This would occur when a hard drive became badly fragmented over a long period of time. The only solution in that case was a complete reformat-no repair.

It takes about 10 minutes to do a defrag on my favorite- 25% full of a 320GB on RAID 0.

[Przemcio231]

Defragmentation and what that might be??? well i never had one in my life[:D][:D] and my system works fine[:D][:D] for what like 2 years now...[:D]

[Sardaukar]

I do it either once a month or when I install/remove large programs. Really useful when playing some "HD-intensive" games.

[Oliver Heindorf]

I once destroyed my HD defragmentic it in 2002. a colleague had the same  last year. [8|]

I use M$ only to play games, Linux 10.1 here for most of the time.

[captskillet]

You know ...........YOU ARE GOOD FOR SOMETHING AFTER ALL.............tks for the reminder.............I just need to go into Sys Works and setup a sched to do it around midnight Sunday on a weekly basis.

[Terminus]

Gee thanks... I think...[:'(]

[Mike Scholl]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

How often do people de-fragment their hard drives? I keep forgetting to do it, so it takes forever when I finally get around to it...

Just did..., and thank you for the reminder. It needed it badly...

[ravinhood]

Funny you should bring that up I just defragged mine about a week or so ago. I used to do it often, but, now I just do it if I notice my system being kind of sluggish. It's probably good to do it every 3 months though I have seen reccomendations to do it once per month. You can usually start it before going to bed and on mine it's done by the time I wake up.

[Terminus]

Was wondering where this thread had gone. Guess it's not OT anymore...[:D]

[Hertston]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

How often do people de-fragment their hard drives? I keep forgetting to do it, so it takes forever when I finally get around to it...

I keep forgetting it too, so it gets done maybe every three to six months. I think the main reason is that I don't really notice much of a performance drop any more.. five years ago, say, with obviously older hardware I seemed to be struggling for every last drop of performance as every game seemed to be written for PC hardware that wouldn't be released until sometime AFTER the game. Things are still moving, but nowhere near as first. The PC I bought 18 months ago still breezes everything thrown at it, and it was hardly 'top end' then.

[KG Erwin]

VERY often -- at least once a week, sometimes twice. On my system, which is just a 40GB primary HD, plus a self-installed 10GB secondary drive from my old PC, it takes less than 10 minutes.

I also frequently test my PC on PC Pitstop. It usually rates above 100% in performance categories for comparable systems.

For the record, I have a Dell Dimension 2400C, with 512MB of RAM (I added a 256 module). I also added an Altec Lansing speaker/subwoofer system.

It runs my favorite game, SPWaW (a notorious memory hog) flawlessly, and the weapons/explosions sound great. I did the upgrades for two purposes : (1) to run SPWaW and (B) to listen to music. [;)]

[Goblin]

Once a month, takes about half an hour.



Goblin

[Poolmick]

1 a week

[IandMe]

Reading this i realized i haven't defragmented my hard drive in about 8 months.The analysis reported that it didn't need to be run at this time since fragmentation is only 4%.