How often do you defrag your drives?

Discussion in 'polls' started by cet, Dec 28, 2009.

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How often do you defrag your drives

  1. Every day

    6 vote(s)
    3.8%
  2. Twice a week

    14 vote(s)
    8.9%
  3. Once a week

    45 vote(s)
    28.7%
  4. Once a month

    50 vote(s)
    31.8%
  5. Once a year

    13 vote(s)
    8.3%
  6. Other

    29 vote(s)
    18.5%
  1. Halffull

    Halffull Registered Member

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    I have so much free space on my hard drive..

    C: 80% free
    D: 85% free
    E: 66% free [storage and downloads]

    That there isn't any need for me to de fragment and I don't see a huge performance problem.


    I use auslogics disk defrag, however I found that even after a full defrag with auslogics when I fire up windows defrag it still says by drive is fragmented.
     
  2. mercurie

    mercurie A Friendly Creature

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    When I need to, I run analyze, if it says I need to I do it other wise I let it go. I check about once every couple of months, most of the time it is fine.
     
  3. safeguy

    safeguy Registered Member

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    Auto daily defrag? Auto real-time defrag? Been there, done it but then realized that it might not be such a good idea in the long run - causes "disk trashing". I'm no expert but weekly or monthly is a safer idea imo.

    Personally, I found out from the defrag results that the fragmentation levels on my PC isn't that bad - I'm guessing it has to do with my routine cleaning with CCleaner. Hence, I hardly do defrag anymore until I feel like it's time for it. I've got Puran to 'remind' me by setting a scheduled boot-defrag. Sometimes, I let it proceed and at times, I just skipped it.

    On my test machine with an ISR, I don't use any defrag programs and even turned off the built-in defrag on Win7.
     
  4. littlebits

    littlebits Registered Member

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    I have Puran configured the same way, plus I about every other week I check to see if my drives need to be completely defragged but most of the time they don't need it. It appears that the idle defrag does the job since I usually leave my computer on most of the time.

    Thanks.:)
     
  5. Noob

    Noob Registered Member

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    Now i just leave O&O do its auto scheduling work, so it's almost everyday when available :D :thumb:
     
  6. Kernelwars

    Kernelwars Registered Member

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    Once a week:D puran defrag:argh:
     
  7. kuti

    kuti Registered Member

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    Never, because i use SSD.
     
  8. guest

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    Now pretty much leaving PerfectDisk Full Auto Schedule StealthPatrol SMARTPlacement to work on its own.
     
  9. acuariano

    acuariano Registered Member

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    don't you guys chdsk your drives before defrag
     
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