Guest Mike Schumann Posted September 12, 2007 Posted September 12, 2007 I am trying to defragment a 160 GByte hard drive on my Windows 2003 Server. It has about 22% free space, about 50 1+GByte files, and about 1,000 40+MByte files. When I start to defragment, it very quickly gets to 3%. After 8+ hours, I'm still at 3%. Is this normal? How long is this going to take? Note: I'm doing this while the server is running. I really can't take the server down for more than a couple of hours to run defrag. -- Mike Schumann
Aevin Posted September 13, 2007 Posted September 13, 2007 Re: Defrag Question Why dont you look at an automated defragmentation solution? Manual defrags are not the most efficient way of doing things as far as defrag is concerned since it is a constantly occuring problem which builds up between the bouts of manual/scheduled defrags. With automatic defragmentation, disks are constantly monitored and defragged as required during periods of free resources, without sacrificing server performance. Higher uptime for the server, lower workload for the human in the loop, and overall better results/efficiency. :cool:
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