How often do you defragment your harddrive?

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-09-11 02:32pm

For me, almost never- I'm doing a full run of xfs_fsr for the first time (Linux filesystems are less prone to fragmentation, but they still do- well it depends on which one you are using).

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2004-09-11 02:37pm

I do it twice a year which is fine for my 28 gig HD.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-09-11 02:47pm

Not often enough, plus it becomes almost completely ineffective above around 50% full...

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-09-11 03:05pm

Every 2 months, each times gives me a serious preformance boost.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-09-11 03:05pm

Rarely.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-09-11 03:09pm

Did it for the first time on my new computer just a few days ago, and I plan on doing it monthly.

Soul Ripper · Post by **Soul Ripper** » 2004-09-11 04:18pm

Every time Ace Pace reminds me to, which I tend to forget so when my computer start being crappy he tells me to defrag it lol.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-09-11 04:22pm

Ouch, thanks for reminding me. *Runs for the defragger.*

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-09-11 04:23pm

Soul Ripper wrote:Every time Ace Pace reminds me to, which I tend to forget so when my computer start being crappy he tells me to defrag it lol.

Get Kerio, Ad-Aware, SpybotSD, Spywareblaster, and Hijackthis.

And dump that Buggy Insecure Browser and get Firefox. It'll even import your IE bookmarks and login/passwords for you.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-09-11 06:19pm

Never!

Brought to you from drunk as hell Swede (tm)

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2004-09-11 06:31pm

Last time I defragged was when I had a 486 DX 50 and was running C&C Red Alert.

Terr Fangbite · Post by **Terr Fangbite** » 2004-09-11 06:41pm

I defragment whenever my space on my HD gets filled, or If i start to notice a severe lag issue with loading. Usually thats nill since due to microcrap I usually reinstall everything every 6 or so months of use.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2004-09-11 11:37pm

I've never done it, because until I read this thread, I didn't understand what the hell it was for. I'll probably try doing it sometime soon and see if anything improves.

Bugsby · Post by **Bugsby** » 2004-09-11 11:41pm

It REALLY helps. I defragment once a week. I know that's too much, but say I finish a paper and now Im staring at my computer and its not doing anything for me. Why not spend the time jacking up my performance marginally?

And to all of you who never defrag: you should. You don't notice the slow decay of performance, but a newly defragmented system is a wonderful thing.

Soul Ripper · Post by **Soul Ripper** » 2004-09-12 12:37am

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
Soul Ripper wrote:Every time Ace Pace reminds me to, which I tend to forget so when my computer start being crappy he tells me to defrag it lol.
Get Kerio, Ad-Aware, SpybotSD, Spywareblaster, and Hijackthis.

And dump that Buggy Insecure Browser and get Firefox. It'll even import your IE bookmarks and login/passwords for you.

Allready got Ad-Aware but I use Opera, and why do I need 4 Spyware removal programs beside Ad-Aware?

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2004-09-12 01:29am

Soul Ripper wrote:
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
Soul Ripper wrote:Every time Ace Pace reminds me to, which I tend to forget so when my computer start being crappy he tells me to defrag it lol.
Get Kerio, Ad-Aware, SpybotSD, Spywareblaster, and Hijackthis.

And dump that Buggy Insecure Browser and get Firefox. It'll even import your IE bookmarks and login/passwords for you.
Allready got Ad-Aware but I use Opera, and why do I need 4 Spyware removal programs beside Ad-Aware?

Kerio is a firewall
Ad-aware is a spyware detector & remover
SpybotSD is a spyware detector & remover which covers different stuff
Spywareblaster is a spyware infestation preventer,
and Hijackthis is used to detected advanced forms of spyware.

They arent all the same.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-09-12 02:17am

ggs wrote:
Soul Ripper wrote:
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote: Get Kerio, Ad-Aware, SpybotSD, Spywareblaster, and Hijackthis.

And dump that Buggy Insecure Browser and get Firefox. It'll even import your IE bookmarks and login/passwords for you.
Allready got Ad-Aware but I use Opera, and why do I need 4 Spyware removal programs beside Ad-Aware?
Kerio is a firewall
Ad-aware is a spyware detector & remover
SpybotSD is a spyware detector & remover which covers different stuff
Spywareblaster is a spyware infestation preventer,
and Hijackthis is used to detected advanced forms of spyware.

They arent all the same.

Besides, its smart to run atleast Adaware and Sybot since one will pick up what the other won't, and vice versa.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-09-12 07:36am

Ah, then he dosn't need Kiero, hes got ZA

Does anyone know of custom defraggers except Sysmech 4 that defrag windows HD's?

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-09-12 10:14am

You don't need custom defragmenters.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-09-12 10:16am

phongn wrote:You don't need custom defragmenters.

The windows one is fine?

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2004-09-12 10:29am

Ace Pace wrote:
phongn wrote:You don't need custom defragmenters.
The windows one is fine?

Yes, indeed it is.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2004-09-12 10:39am

Er, uh, where'd that Defragger go?

Karza · Post by **Karza** » 2004-09-12 10:52am

Almost never.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-09-12 11:05am

3 to 4 times a year.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2004-09-12 03:56pm

my computer is three and a half years old running on windows 98 and i´ve never defragmented it.