Guest John Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Out of curiosity, does running disk defragmenter reduce the life of a hard drive? How often should disk defragmenter be run? Thanks...
Guest sgopus Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 RE: Disk Defragmenter Question... only as much as running it daily would do, how often is strictly up to the user. "John" wrote: > Out of curiosity, does running disk defragmenter reduce the life of a hard > drive? > > How often should disk defragmenter be run? > > Thanks...
Guest Jerry Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Re: Disk Defragmenter Question... "John" <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:56BAF46D-3550-4FFB-8F47-CD1249E52CCE@microsoft.com... > Out of curiosity, does running disk defragmenter reduce the life of a hard > drive? > > How often should disk defragmenter be run? > > Thanks... Disk defragmenter offers you the opportunity to analyze your disk, it will tell you if it's needs to be defragmenter or not.
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Re: Disk Defragmenter Question... On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:55:02 -0700, John <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > Out of curiosity, does running disk defragmenter reduce the life of a hard > drive? No. > How often should disk defragmenter be run? There's no answer that's right for everyone. It depends on how you use your computer and it depends on how much you use your computer. You should defragment your drive when doing so results in a speed-up. Here's what I recommend. Pick some arbitrary interval--for example once a month. Defragment on that interval a few times, and assess whether the computer generally feels faster after doing so. If the answer is yes, defrag more frequently. If the answer is no, defrag less frequently. Repeat a few times, and you'll soon settle into a frequency that works well for you. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup
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