Rick is absolutely right. The idea that defragging can ruin your hard drive
is a myth that has persisted from the early days of PC's when hard drives
were much more prone to failure than today's models. It is a good practice
to defrag once a month or so just to keep things running smoothly.
Gerald
----- Original Message -----
From: "Riley Blake " <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Defragging
Thanks, Rick. That's good to know.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Harmon <[email protected]>
Sent: May 01, 2009 15:57
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Defragging
Defragging does not put additional wear and tear on a hard drive. These
things are designed to work for at least 100,000 hours. There are 8,400
hours in a year. Do the math. You could defrag every single day and not
come close to the limits a drive is designed to work for over the time you
will own it.
Rick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Riley Blake " <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Defragging
Thanks, I'l keep that in mind. I've had this computer for years and haven't
done any degragging at all.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Hallsworth <[email protected]>
Sent: May 01, 2009 15:39
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Defragging
I always went for the presumption that if the defragmenter tells you that
"this volume doesn't require defragmenting..." or whatever, then don't do
it, otherwise you'll cause unnecessary wear and tear on the hard drive.
--
Chris Hallsworth
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Riley Blake " <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 9:56 PM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Defragging
> Hi all. I'm considering defragging my hard drive, but I had a strange
> issue that I'm wondering about. When I do it, and hit theanalyze button
> I'm told that this drive doesn't need to be defragged. I have never
> defragged my hardrive, so I was wondering why I was getting this
message.
> Should I defrag any way? I'm using windows XP sp 3.
>
>
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