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Just a little enquiry as to what you PC experts think..
I'm a bit of a stickler for keeping my hard drive defragged..the question is..i have now got a 1tb external backup drive,should i defrag this as well or leave it alone..you thoughts please.
Thanks for your time..:thumbs:
 
STARRIDER said:
Just a little enquiry as to what you PC experts think..
I'm a bit of a stickler for keeping my hard drive defragged..the question is..i have now got a 1tb external backup drive,should i defrag this as well or leave it alone..you thoughts please.
Thanks for your time..:thumbs:
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Defragging is only need when you keep opening and re-writing files on a drive as your drive is a back up I guess you just add to it so files will not get split up in the same way. so not needed, but you might like to do it now and a gain if you have been writing and deleting files
 
NTFS is a self defragging format. no need to bother.
 
1tb external disks are about 60 quid now.
 
There is no universal rule for the frequency of defragging; it depends entirely on the usage patterns which in turn govern the rate of fragmentation buildup.

I set my defragger Diskeeper to auto defrag mode; it works perfectly, monitoring fragmentation in the background and defragging whenever necessary, quietly and efficiently without bothering me. All 4 of my current HDDs are fast and smooth (esp my 640GB photo editing drive). The new Diskeeper version 2010 apparently has a slick feature which actually prevents 'up to 85%' of the fragmentation from ever occuring in the first place. Prevention is better than cure, right? :D
 
most defrag software lets you see how bad the problem is before committing to the actual defrag
ask it for a report!
 
i haven't defragged a harddisc since NTFS came about :P
 
Pentaxprism said:
There is no universal rule for the frequency of defragging; it depends entirely on the usage patterns which in turn govern the rate of fragmentation buildup.

I set my defragger Diskeeper to auto defrag mode; it works perfectly, monitoring fragmentation in the background and defragging whenever necessary, quietly and efficiently without bothering me. All 4 of my current HDDs are fast and smooth (esp my 640GB photo editing drive). The new Diskeeper version 2010 apparently has a slick feature which actually prevents 'up to 85%' of the fragmentation from ever occuring in the first place. Prevention is better than cure, right? :D
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Thanks Pentaprism..i have been using Diskeeper 8 for a few years..have now installed version 2010 on 30 day trial..all good so far..:thumbs:
 
neil_g said:
ho noes, none of my servers at work have ever done a defrag!!!!11111 :bonk:
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!!!11!11!oneone!!1!!
zOMG !

anyway, enough of that.
 
STARRIDER said:
Just a little enquiry as to what you PC experts think..
I'm a bit of a stickler for keeping my hard drive defragged..the question is..i have now got a 1tb external backup drive,should i defrag this as well or leave it alone..you thoughts please.
Thanks for your time..:thumbs:
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If it's using the FAT16 file system then you might want to defrag it. However the cluster size would be truly huge so I doubt it will be using that!

If it's using NTFS, ext2, ext3 or ReiserFS then I wouldn't worry about fragmentation.
 
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