Do You DEFRAG? And How Often if You Do?

Judas · Apr 20, 2007, 01:31 AM

depending on the programs you use, defraging once and then defragmenting afterwards isn't going to change much.

Usually fragmentation would occur due to download/deleteing files regularly, installing and uninstalling things, depending on the location of swapfile and numerous other things would effect it.

Reason i put my swap file on a seperate partition all the time, swap file has a habit of tearing shit up badly.

ZzzombieBunny · Apr 20, 2007, 02:02 AM

ive split my hdds up in several partitions to make things easier and faster to defragment. etc one partition for windows, one for programs, one for games, one for downloads, one for storage.

Its hard to measure the effects of fragmentation in real life usage, but things defintly run smoother on my system than my brothers who just has all his junk on the same partition and defrags once every 6months.

RaveneR · Apr 20, 2007, 02:36 AM

i agree with your statement, its easier to managed the drive when you have it in smaller partitions for each individual segment of your needs, since you can do other things while one partition is being formatted(provided your CPU is either dual core or fast enough not to affect your work), saves more time.

Vampyromaniac · Apr 20, 2007, 06:20 AM

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Originally Posted by ZzzombieBunny

ive split my hdds up in several partitions to make things easier and faster to defragment. etc one partition for windows, one for programs, one for games, one for downloads, one for storage.

Yeah, that's the only reason I could come up with for why defragging wasn't making much of a difference for me... that I have all the data separated in multiple partitions.

Apr 20, 2007, 02:02 AM	#32
ZzzombieBunny Cake or Death? Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sweden Posts: 259 Rep Power: 0	ive split my hdds up in several partitions to make things easier and faster to defragment. etc one partition for windows, one for programs, one for games, one for downloads, one for storage. Its hard to measure the effects of fragmentation in real life usage, but things defintly run smoother on my system than my brothers who just has all his junk on the same partition and defrags once every 6months.

Apr 20, 2007, 02:36 AM	#33
RaveneR DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Singapore Posts: 196 Rep Power: 0	i agree with your statement, its easier to managed the drive when you have it in smaller partitions for each individual segment of your needs, since you can do other things while one partition is being formatted(provided your CPU is either dual core or fast enough not to affect your work), saves more time.