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ZrByte · 07-07-2005, 12:49

Used to do mine about once a month but dont even do that now. Dont really see the point to be honest, on a modern machine with a decent hard drive the performance gains are minimal, stability is unrelated and it takes too long for the small amount of performance gained. It also causes premature wear on the disk and on average halves its opperational lifetime.

This may well be aided by the fact that drives wich fragment quickest are windows drives dealing with p2p downloads etc. My windows drive is pureley for My OS, games and utilities. Everything else is stored on a sepperate drive wich rareley needs defraging either.

07-07-2005, 12:49	#18
ZrByte Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Wirral / Ex CWC Area Age: 43 Posts: 3,251	Re: About speeding up your computer and using defrag Used to do mine about once a month but dont even do that now. Dont really see the point to be honest, on a modern machine with a decent hard drive the performance gains are minimal, stability is unrelated and it takes too long for the small amount of performance gained. It also causes premature wear on the disk and on average halves its opperational lifetime. This may well be aided by the fact that drives wich fragment quickest are windows drives dealing with p2p downloads etc. My windows drive is pureley for My OS, games and utilities. Everything else is stored on a sepperate drive wich rareley needs defraging either.