I pretty much agree with Gerald. Back in the day, I would defrag my hard
drive regularly, especially when I had everything on one partition. Now
that my drives are little used, I mean, some of the partitions are less
than 25% used, I defrag much less often. On my system partition, and
programs partition, I rarely defrag because I don't do a lot of installing
and uninstalling of programs and such, so the data on those partitions
don't change all that much. No need to make the drive work for no reason.
I've also read that defragging on solid state drives is actually
detrimental to the drive. Not that I have a solid state drive as a system
drive. Although, that would be nice.
Now, on my data partition, where there is a lot of data migration, new
files coming in, old files being deleted, I defrag that more often. But
more importantly than defragging is general clean-up. Dumping cookies,
temp files, blah blah blah.
Anyway, that's my two cents worth.
--
Blue skies.
Dan Rossi
Carnegie Mellon University.
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