How often do you guys defrag?

Technology and Gaming Help and Support
#1

As the title says, how often? Lately I’ve been doing it every day, which might be a bit excessive, but I do a lot with my computer and defragging every day only takes like 10 minutes.

#2

W7 is it doing automaticly for me.
When I do defrag manually it only takes a few seconds on my OS HD.

#3

Generally very rarely. Last time it took like seven hours or something, so I’ve been meaning to do it more often as of late.

#4

Defrag is a useful tool, but as you suspected, doing it every day is excessive. Unless you’re installing and uninstalling gigs of data (or just straight-up deleting) you don’t really need it done per diem. Your HD is composed of moving mechanical parts, and the more you task them, the closer you get to the mfr’s expected failure date.
On the other hand, I use this little trick every 6 months or so, because it closes most of the big gaps on my HD very neatly:

Enter Device Manager and set your pagefile to 0
Restart (if prompted)
Run your defrag utility to completion
Re-enter Device Manager and set your PF to the desired size (restart if prompted)

#5

Never. It’s an 80’s thing. Windows 7 has a beautiful function for that.

#6

It’s 2 years I’ve got my rig and I didn’t defrag squat.

#7

…that be all and good if you have less than 8 GB of memory.

#8

The source material I paraphrased is from 2004, so…no the fuck it isn’t. And since I can run that routine and note performance gains across the board after it’s completed, I maintain that it’s a useful and relevant. And although Windows is (finally) stable, and has a high level of consumer confidence, there are always methods for improving it’s functions. Even if there is a bit of user geekery involved.

#9

So what the fuck are you actually whining about?

#10

Every wednesday at 1:00AM

#11

I like how you treat logical, reasoned feedback as “whining”; guess I should have just ignored you in the first place, but you brought it on yourself.
The OP asked how often we defrag, and suspected it was excessive. I offered suggestions to prolong the life of his hardware, mentioned how often I defrag and how I perform that defrag. And I cited my conclusions for using those methods after you responded to me. Dropping the f-bomb was unnecessary I’m sure, but as we all are adults (we-ell…) I figured it wasn’t the first time anyone heard it.

#12

I think another thing worth mentioning is that with an SSD, you should NEVER EVER DEFRAG EVER. Defrags involve huge numbers of reads and writes, and these I/O operations will significantly shorten the lifespan of the solid state drive.

#13

ok so quotinng from 2004-----don’nt give A SHIT

EDIT : actually I do.

#14

lol default scedule.

I actually end up downloading/deleting at least 20+ gigs a day usually

#15

so you are swedish…lol

#16
#17

Default, and I never notice if it starts.

#18

Never :slight_smile:

  1. SSD
  2. ZFS filesystem/volume manager (FreeBSD)
#19

:what:

#20

Large HDD, I never delete anything. Once it’s full I reformat. Repeat.

Also that windows 7/8 auto defrag thing.

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