Defragment.....??

Re: Defragment.....??

Think of it this way, If you bought a book and got it home, then ripped all the pages out and tossed them all over the house you would have to waste time looking for the next page all the time. so you would pick all the pages up and organize them by page number into a readable book again and away you would go. same with the files on your computer, they get scattered all over the drive and your system starts to waste a lot of time looking for them. Defragging your drive puts all the pages back in order again so you computer doesn't waste time and rescourses looking for them. Do you loose stuff when you transfer files from drive to drive? No...you won't loose anything using a defrag program either. The computer excells at managing information or data. If you don't defrag you risk loosing a drive in the long run

You should have at least 15% usable free space on your drive before defragging though. If you don't you'll have to delete some stuff. The system needs this space in order to move files around in the defrag process
 
Re: Defragment.....??

I don't know how good that advise is mino :-/

I took my hard drive apart and spread the parts all over the place as you suggest... Not working so good >:(
 
Re: Defragment.....??

Nothing that six hours and a bottle of elmers glue wont fix eh! :D
 
Re: Defragment.....??

Not the bottle you were sniffing before you took your dive apart
 
Re: Defragment.....??

[quote author=mino link=board=Offtopic;num=1106925304;start=15#26 date=01/31/05 at 17:41:12]Not the bottle you were sniffing before you took your dive apart[/quote]

LOL ;D

Out - Of - The - Park!
 
Re: Defragment.....??

[quote author=Slimothy link=board=Offtopic;num=1106925304;start=15#29 date=01/31/05 at 18:12:11]What is the average amount of time we should wait before defragging?[/quote]

Whenever you have time or after heavy use. You can "analyze" every few days to see how it looks.

Every couple nights is not a bad idea but even every week or so will do it.
 
Re: Defragment.....??

I never defrag my hard drives. I looked forever to figure out how to do it on a Mac and nothing. I tried to find third part programs that would do it and nothing for Mac. So I asked around at Apple and Symantec. They said Apples OS defrags itself or some kind of crazy tech talk. They said I don't need to defrag even after I told them about my video work and 1.25tb hard drive jungle.

So anyways...I've never defrag'd and never had a problem.
 
Re: Defragment.....??

I don't know that there is an average time, it all depends on how much action your hard drive sees. If your writing word docs, e-mailing and playing solitare you could probably defrag every six months. If your capturing video, editing video/audio everyday then you need to step it up to once a week or maybe every couple of days. I open the defrag program (windows) and if it looks badly fragged (lots of red) then I start the defrag process. Some do it every day and some never. If you defrag once a week say on sunday night you should come out ahead. Just start the defrag program running, shut of the monitor and go to bed. You could set up a macro as disjecta does and have it auto defrag using task scheduler. Same deal for mac only I'm not familliar with the process/software used...Pre OS X
 
Re: Defragment.....??

Mac OS X defrags and optomizes on the fly I think so there should be no need to defrag...at least so legend has it. That's a pretty cool feature and probably keeps old billy up late with the slide rule ;D
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top