Disk Defragmenter

[Neal-UK]

How often do you defrag your HD for your computer? I try to do one at least once a month unless i've done some big installs and removals.

[Joe Gronlund]

System drives - Once a week
Backup drivers - Once a month

[rellek]

When I'm really bored.

[Wayne Luke]

Don't really think about it. Can't remember the last time.

[simsim]

Just when I read this thread! Been the last time a year or two ago.

I have 2 hard drives with 6 overall partitions. Only the C partition needed defragement. (Grrr Firefox didn't recognize the word so I'm not sure of the spelling)

[Quillz]

I only defrag the hard drives that run Windows, and I usually do that once a month, sometimes less.

[Jose Amaral Rego]

I defrag every month and for some reason I also zero my Hard Drive right after? Just a habit I guess, it takes 12 hours to do thou.

[KeithMcL]

Whenever I remember to.

[Gladius]

Same as Wayne... I think the excessive defragmenting is a phase for most people. I know I was obsessed with doing it like once every (other) week about 10-15 years ago, but hardly ever since. Of course, back then defragging still made noticeable difference and recovered precious space, unlike now. I don't think I've defragged this box since I've bought it over a year ago. No need really, everything's running just fine. And it's not even fragmented that much despite my moving quite a lot of files around.

[Sergio68]

Never becouse I do not use Windows.

[filburt1]

When I'm really bored.

+1. On today's computers, it doesn't really do anything noticable.

[rellek]

+1. On today's computers, it doesn't really do anything noticable.

Not only this.... Imagine you have a 320GB harddisk, which is filled 100 GB. Where should a fragmentation come from?

[Yves R.]

Can't remember when I don't have defrag my HDDs (I'll see now for defrag my 250GB HD and my WinXP partition (27 / 46GB used, this partition needs to be defrag))

[WurkAnimal]

I hardly ever, although if I do it's like once every 6 Months!

[Wayne Luke]

Never becouse I do not use Windows.

Isn't even needed on Windows based computers unless you're using FAT16/32 still. On NTFS, like all journaled file systems, there is no practical benefit to defragging a drive.

Even if you needed to, its a lot more time efficient to zero out the drive through formatting and slamming it with your operating system off DVD images. Especially when you get over 100 GB drives.