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Wed 11 Feb, 2004 02:55 am
That is the question. According to this article if your computer is newish,
no need to defrag.
http://www.techbuilder.org/article.htm?ArticleID=47626
It's also a matter of wear and tear. Like any mechanical device, it can be broken by using it to much. Defragging, at the very least, lets the disk drive work more efficiently.
I always have, and always will, defrag my hard drive. Sometimes I go a couple of months between defrags, and sometimes a bit sooner.
Hello Turner, I'm like yourself, but my XP has never said yet that I need to defrag no matter how long I leave it, and that is usually a number of weeks. About 5 minutes defrags mine and that is with 10-12 hours use per day. Computer about 19 months old.
Using own defragger.
smokingunne wrote:Hello Turner, I'm like yourself, but my XP has never said yet that I need to defrag no matter how long I leave it, and that is usually a number of weeks.
When your HD needs to be defragmented has nothing to do with how long you leave it running! Defragging isn't necessary unless you're adding, deleting & moving large amounts of data on your HD. True, the system
performance benefits gained from defragging have been lessened by super-fast HD's and NTFS partitions but there are other benefits...which are mentioned in the article you linked too.
smokingunne- I have an XP that is a few weeks old. When I went to defrag it, I got a notice that I didn't need to.
Thank you so much for the link to the article. It is now in my "favorites". I also made a hard copy of it, and will go through the different suggestions. Super!
Monger wrote
Quote:When your HD needs to be defragmented has nothing to do with how long you leave it running!
Monger sorry if you misunderstood my post. I didn't mean leave it running
idle, I wouldn't do that. I meant actual usage and that includes installing and uninstalling and the other work you mention.. :wink:
They must have broken the link, I re-checked it after posting this morning
and all was well. It was openly posted when I picked it up.
As can be seen others have used the link.
Off topic. I suspect Mr. Monger and Mr. Craven de Vere are
closely related.
smokingunne- OOH, am I glad that I copied it!
It's back - but I copied it anyway.
smokingunne wrote: Off topic. I suspect Mr. Monger and Mr. Craven de Vere are
closely related.
What in the name of all that is unholy gave you this revelation?
The fact that you are astral twins?????
Groovy hippie goodness...
heehee - you're too polite to be related by blood to his satanic majesty.....
btw Gunne, no I'm not related to Craven. I've never met the fella either.
Dlowan... his satanic majesty, eh? lol! I wasn't drinking anything at the time I read that, so I spewed brains on my keyboard.
Damn you!
It doesn't really hurt anything to defrag, so why not just do it weekly? What's to loose? It gets you into the habit of taking good care of your computer.
That is awful Monger! Your brains are precious!
You might be right, Deb. Practically unused cerebra do tend to fetch the best prices.
Er - lose the bit about the platypus eggs, right?
Monger - the brain is the most attractive organ in the body - and yours is exercised well, I believe....
Perhaps you could buy it a nice blue cerebra ring, though?
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